Alison Pouch, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
CBICA Faculty Member, Penn Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analysis (CBICA)
Penn CVI Member, Penn Cardiovascular Institute
PICS Core Faculty Member, Penn Institute for Computational Sciences (PICS)
Department: Radiology
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
Perelman School of Medicine
Department of Radiology, Research
Richards Building - 6th Floor
3700 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Radiology, Research
Richards Building - 6th Floor
3700 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-898-1050
Lab: 215-743-7073
Lab: 215-743-7073
Education:
BS (Physics - Honors Distinction, Anthropology)
The College of William and Mary, 2007.
PhD (Bioengineering - Biomedical Imaging and Informational Sciences)
University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
Cert (Biomedical Informatics)
University of Pennsylvania, 2018.
Permanent linkBS (Physics - Honors Distinction, Anthropology)
The College of William and Mary, 2007.
PhD (Bioengineering - Biomedical Imaging and Informational Sciences)
University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
Cert (Biomedical Informatics)
University of Pennsylvania, 2018.
Selected Publications
MacKay EM*, Goldfinger S*, Chan TJ, Grasfield RH, Eswar VJ, Li K, Cao Q, Pouch AM: Automated structured data extraction from intraoperative echocardiography reports using large language models. British Journal of Anaesthesia in press, 2025.Frost CL, Vidula M, Hu R, Herrmann HC, Chen T*, Pouch AM*: Dynamic Segmentation of Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography Using an Automated Neural Network for Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 38(8): 725-728, 2025.
Hao J, Yushkevich PA, Dong NJ, Amin S, Guo Z, Yushkevich N, Aggarwal A, Pouch AM: Streamlining 4D Cardiac Image Workflows: Open-Source Tools for Segmentation, Registration, and Visualization. Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart. Springer Nature Switzerland, 15673: 161-173, 2025.
Yao X, Yu R, Hu D, Yang H, Lou A, Wang J, Lu D, Arenas G, Oguz B, Pouch AM, Schwartz N, Byram BC, Oguz I: SynStitch: A Self-Supervised Learning Network for Ultrasound Image Stitching Using Synthetic Training Pairs and Indirect Supervision. IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) Page: 1-5, 2025.
Wu W, Daneker M, Herz C, Dewey H, Weiss JA, Pouch AM, Lu L, Jolley MA: A non-invasive method for determining elastic parameters of valve tissue using physics-informed neural networks. Acta Biomaterialia 200: 283-298, 2025.
Li H, Oguz B, Arenas G, Yao X, Wang J, Lu D, Pouch AM, Byram B, Schwartz N, Oguz I: PRISM Lite: a lightweight model for interactive 3D placenta segmentation in ultrasound. SPIE Medical Imaging 13406: 134060B, 2025.
Yao X, Yu R, DiSanto N, Aghdam EK, Oguine KJ, Lu D, Lou A, Wang J, Hu D, Arenas GA, Oguz B, Pouch AM, Schwartz N, Byram B, Oguz I: LOTUS: Latent Outpainting Diffusion Model for Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Stitching. Proceedings of Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2025.
Guo Z, Dong NJ, Litt H, Yushkevich N, Freas M, Nunez J, Ferrari V, Hao J, Goldfinger S, Jolley MA, Bavaria J, Desai ND, Pouch AM: Towards Patient-Specific Surgical Planning for Bicuspid Aortic Valve Repair: Fully Automated Segmentation of the Aortic Valve in 4D CT. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging in press, 2025.
Haese CE, Dubey V, Mathur M, Pouch AM, Timek TA, Rausch MK: Tricuspid valve edge-to-edge repair simulations are highly sensitive to annular boundary conditions. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 163: 106879, 2025.
Chan TJ, Sahni A, Fang Y, Li J, Luthra A, Pouch AM, Rajapakse CS: SAM3D: Zero-Shot Semi-Automatic Segmentation in 3D Medical Images with the Segment Anything Model. SPIE Medical Imaging 2025.