New York: Prateek Prasanna, an Indian American professor has received the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project to harness eye gaze data as a key resource for guiding model learning.
Prasanna, an assistant professor from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Stony Brook University, aims to integrate how radiologists and pathologists visually interpret medical images with artificial intelligence.
Titled “CAREER: Towards Gaze-guided Medical Image Analysis,” the project will enhance the interpretability and diagnostic performance of machine learning systems in both radiology and digital pathology, according to a university release.
The award recognizes Prasanna’s innovative approach to bridging human expertise and artificial intelligence in service of better healthcare outcomes.
“Our work not only advances the science of human-AI collaboration but also has the potential to transform training, decision-making, and patient care across a wide range of clinical applications,” he said. “By embedding clinical expertise into model development, we aim to build AI tools that are not only technically robust but also clinically meaningful.”
Prasanna leads the Imaging Informatics for Precision Medicine (IMAGINE) Lab at Stony Brook University, where his team focuses on developing clinically translatable machine learning tools that integrate imaging, pathology and genomic data to inform treatment decisions.
