UCSF Imaging

06/08/2026

Dr. Maggie Chung co-founded Voio with UC Berkeley colleagues through the UCSF and UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health. The startup is building AI models to help radiologists interpret images faster, generate draft reports, and predict patient risk for conditions like cancer, osteoporosis, and heart failure years in advance.

For Dr. Chung, the goal is simple. "When we reduce manual, non-technical tasks, we give radiologists back the joy of their work," she said. "It lets us return to why we became radiologists. We are the detectives behind the hospital. Through imaging, we make the key findings that have big clinical impact on our patients."

Read the full story:

Amid a growing shortage of radiologists, a startup named Voio strives to make medical imaging more efficient — and more effective.

06/04/2026

Meningioma is the most common brain tumor, and because it usually grows slowly, catching meaningful changes early is a real challenge with today's measurement tools.

UCSF Imaging researchers developed an AI tool that addresses this directly. By analyzing a patient's full MRI history and segmenting tumors in 3D, the tool generates a longitudinal growth curve, immediately after imaging, that shows whether a tumor is stable, growing slowly, or progressing rapidly. Confidence intervals help clinicians interpret the results with appropriate context.

Read the full story: https://radiology.ucsf.edu/news/department-publications/ai-improves-meningioma-measurement

06/02/2026

Getting two separate imaging scans after a bone injury adds time, cost, and radiation. Research from Dr. Alexandra Gersing and UCSF's Musculoskeletal Quantitative Imaging Research group is working toward a better option.

Using advanced MRI sequences, the team can generate CT-quality images of bone fractures, all within a single MRI appointment, with zero extra radiation. The same technology is being applied to differentiate bone tumors from osteoporosis fractures, potentially catching bone health problems before they become symptomatic.

Learn more: https://radiology.ucsf.edu/news/department-publications/when-can-mri-replace-ct-musculoskeletal-imaging

05/28/2026

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is the only Level 1 Trauma Center in San Francisco, and the standard for care there is high. A new quality improvement initiative called IR in 60 is raising it further.

IR in 60 is co-led by interventional radiologist Dr. Miles Conrad and trauma medical director Dr. Timothy Browder. The initiative focuses on ensuring IR services reach patients with life-threatening hemorrhage within the 60-minute window required by the American College of Surgeons, from team activation to arterial access.

Key improvements include a universal pager system that reduces mobilization steps, streamlined communication between trauma and radiology teams, and an IR suite with an integrated CT scanner positioned inside the operating room. That setup, conceived by ZSFG radiologist-in-chief Dr. Mark Wilson, allows the team to pinpoint bleeding sources and begin treatment faster than a traditional IR suite would allow.

Read more: https://radiology.ucsf.edu/news/department-publications/improving-trauma-care-ir-60-zsfg

05/26/2026

What can a fetal MRI reveal that an ultrasound cannot? Quite a lot, it turns out.

UCSF Imaging has spent nearly three decades refining the answer to that question. A new Images feature profiles the faculty and research behind UCSF's fetal MRI program, one of the most experienced in the world, and explores where the field is headed next.

The piece covers AI-based tools that help predict which fetuses may benefit from surgery before birth, advanced imaging techniques that can detect neurological findings only a few pixels wide, and research pairing fetal MRI with genetic data to improve diagnosis earlier in pregnancy. It also highlights the human side of this work.

"Sometimes the most powerful thing we can tell a family is that everything looks normal," shares neuroradiologist Dr. Elizabeth George.

Read the full feature: https://radiology.ucsf.edu/news/department-publications/tiny-anatomy-big-promise-rise-fetal-mri

04/23/2026

What does a year look like when a department of nearly 1,400 people is firing on all cylinders?

It looks like 120 grants, 56 new awards, and more than 600 publications. It looks like advances in fetal MRI, new Alzheimer's research, AI tools that make diagnosis more accurate, and a trauma care model at ZSFG that is becoming a blueprint. It looks like the 2025 UCSF Imaging Images magazine.

New issue out now: https://radiology.ucsf.edu/news/department-publications

04/22/2026

Happy Administrative Professionals Day to our incredible administrative team that keeps everything running behind the scenes! You make this place what it is, and we are so grateful.

04/15/2026

Alzheimer's can begin damaging the brain up to 20 years before a person notices memory loss. For most of the last decade, by the time a physician detected decline, the options were limited. That changed when the first disease-modifying therapies for early-stage Alzheimer's became available, but those treatments require close imaging monitoring to work safely. The quality of an MRI scan now has a direct impact on how well a patient can be treated.

That is the problem UCSF Imaging and GE HealthCare are working on together through the Care Innovation Hub, a three-year research collaboration launched in January 2025. Researchers are using advanced 3T MRI at UCSF's Weill Institute for Neurosciences to detect early brain changes, predict treatment-related imaging abnormalities, and build faster, more precise imaging tools.

UCSF and GE HealthCare have worked together since the 1980s. This is their most expansive program yet.

Read more in Radiology Today: https://www.radiologytoday.net/archive/rt_MA26p22.shtml

04/07/2026

Congratulations to UCSF Imaging postdoc Minjie Zhu on receiving the 2026 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring!

This award from UCSF Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs recognizes trainees who go above and beyond to mentor their colleagues in research, career development, and professional growth. https://graduate.ucsf.edu/mentoring-2026

04/01/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Anil Bidkar on being selected as the recipient of the SNMMI-PCF Young Investigator's Award.

Dr. Bidkar's award supports his proposal to develop a CD46-targeted radiotherapy platform designed to overcome tumor heterogeneity in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, a lethal stage of the disease that is difficult to treat due to its aggressive progression and molecular heterogeneity across metastatic lesions.

The grant is co-sponsored by the SNMMI Mars Shot Fund and the Prostate Cancer Foundation. https://snmmi.org/Web/News/Articles/Anil-Parsram-Bidkar--PhD--Receives-SNMMI-PCF-Young-Investigator-s-Award.aspx

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