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Adrian Dalca

Also known as Adrian V. Dalca

Adrian Dalca is a medical-imaging researcher who applies machine learning to brain registration, extraction and segmentation. He earned an S.M. at MIT in 2012 and a Ph.D. there in 2016; he coauthored VoxelMorph in 2018 and SynthStrip in 2022. By 2023, he was an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL; MICCAI gave him its Young Scientist Publication Impact Award for his 2018 registration paper. In 2025, he coauthored MultiverSeg, and in 2026 he coauthored a framework for joint brain-surface and volume registration. As of October 2026, he is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Martinos Center, directs its Computational Core, and leads a clinical machine-learning group at MIT CSAIL.

Now at
Harvard Medical School, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mass General Brigham
Works
239
Citations
12,082
h-index
44

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 27 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2012–2016

    MIT graduate degrees

    He earns an S.M. at MIT in 2012 and a Ph.D. there in 2016.

  2. 2018

    VoxelMorph image registration

    In 2018, he coauthors VoxelMorph, a fast learning-based framework for deformable, pairwise medical-image registration.

  3. 2022

    SynthStrip brain extraction

    In 2022, he coauthors SynthStrip, a deep-learning tool that extracts brain voxels across image types, modalities, resolutions and subject populations.

  4. By 2023

    Postdoctoral work and faculty roles

    By 2023, he is an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL, after postdoctoral work in the Sabuncu Lab.

  5. 2023

    A MICCAI impact award

    At MICCAI 2023 in Vancouver, the MICCAI Society presents him with its Young Scientist Publication Impact Award for his 2018 paper, “Unsupervised Learning for Fast Probabilistic Diffeomorphic Registration.”

  6. 2025

    Interactive segmentation with MultiverSeg

    In 2025, he coauthors MultiverSeg, accepted at ICCV, a system that uses clicks, boxes or scribbles and previously segmented images to guide segmentation of new biomedical datasets.

  7. 2026

    Joint brain MRI registration

    In 2026, he coauthors Unified Brain Surface and Volume Registration, a deep-learning framework that jointly aligns cortical and subcortical regions in brain MRI.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and computational core director

    As of October 2026, he is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and directs its Computational Core; his affiliations also include Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. At MIT CSAIL, he is a Research Affiliate and one of the leads of its Clinical and Applied Machine Learning Group, which develops machine-learning methods inspired by real clinical applications.

Career

  1. NowHarvard Medical SchoolAssistant Professor of Radiology
  2. NowMartinos Center for Biomedical ImagingDirector, Computational Core
  3. NowMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyResearch Affiliate, One of the leads, Clinical and Applied Machine Learning Group
  4. NowMass General BrighamAssistant Professor of Radiology
  5. Sabuncu LabPostdoctoral researcher

Education

  1. 2016Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPh.D. in electrical engineering and computer science
  2. 2012Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyS.M.

From the biography.

Checked career sources: martinos.org, mit.edu, csail.mit.edu, csail.mit.edu, sabuncu.engineering.cornell.edu.

Sources and credits

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  1. CSAIL’s Dalca earns MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award csail.mit.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  2. VoxelMorph: A Learning Framework for Deformable Medical Image Registration arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  3. SynthStrip: Skull-Stripping for Any Brain Image surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  4. People – Sabuncu Lab sabuncu.engineering.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  5. GitHub - halleewong/MultiverSeg: [ICCV 2025] MultiverSeg: Scalable Interactive Segmentation of Biomedical Imaging Datasets with In-Context Guidance · GitHub github.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  6. MultiverSeg: Scalable Interactive Segmentation of Biomedical Imaging Datasets with In-Context Guidance arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  7. Unified Brain Surface and Volume Registration – MIT Jameel Clinic jclinic.mit.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  8. Dalca, Adrian – Martinos Center martinos.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  9. Adrian V. Dalca | Medical Imaging AI mit.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  10. Adrian Dalca | MIT CSAIL csail.mit.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.