Welcome to the i4Health Research lab

March 2025 - Our paper Similarity-Aware Token Pruning: Your VLM but Faster is now available on arxiv.

Feb 2025 - Our lab is delighted to welcome Abeer Badawi as a postdoctoral fellow.

Jan. 2025 - Congratulations to Juan Medina on defending his Master's at U of T.

Dec. 2024 - Our lab has received a seed grant from the LongCovid Web.

Sep. 2024 - Congratulations to Juan Medina on receiving CanTreatCOVID Master’s Scholarship

Sep. 2024 - Our lab is delighted to welcome three new brilliant members, Nathan Kabore, Shayan Emzad, and Negin Baghbanzadeh.

Sep. 2024 - Dr. Dolatabadi is featured in the Vector Institute Annual Report for the Kids Help Phone project.

Aug. 2024 - Our recent research, “Transitioning sleeping position detection in late pregnancy using computer vision from controlled to real-world settings: an observational study,” has been recently published in Nature Scientific Reports; 

Jan. 2024 - Our lab is delighted to welcome three new brilliant members, Noor Qaiser, Mansoure Jahanian, and Yasaman Parhizkar.

Dec. 2023. Dr. Dolatabadi is featured in a National Post interview discussing the transformative impact of AI on healthcare in Canada. Additionally, my insights were quoted in a blog post titled "Five ways artificial Intelligence is improving health care in Canada” 

Oct. 2023 - Our recent research, “Vision-based detection and quantification of maternal sleeping position,” has been recently published in PLoS Digital Health; 

Sep 2023 - we have an open Research Internship position in Machine Learning and Bio-informatics (to be appointed at UHN): Job posting link and @UHN ; 

Sep 2023 - Our recent collaborative work with @TELUS, @DeloitteCanada & @RocheCanada, “Using Social Media to Help Understand Patient-Reported Health Outcomes of Post–COVID-19 Condition: NLP Approach” has been recently published in @jmirpub

June 2023 - Our lab received collaborative seed funding for the project Machine Learning for Post-Covid Condition in collaboration with York University, GEMINI, and LongCovid Web.

June 2023 - Congratulations to Allan Kember on successfully defending his Master's thesis

May 2023 - Our lab received an NSERC Discovery Grant for the project titled "Deep Multimodal Learning for Healthcare: Towards Building Multimodal Pathway Health Networks".

May 2023 - Our paper on using NLP for clinical laboratory Data Repository Systems is published at JMIR AI

April 2023 - Congratulations to Sina Akbarian on his new IEEE access paper on evaluating knowledge transfer in NN for medical images.

Feb 2023 - Our paper on diagnosing harmful data shift is now available on medrxiv