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AI acronyms
100

These celebrities won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2024.

Who are David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper?

100

This class of RF-pulses are not a normal RF inversion pulse and help when the B1 field from RF coil is not spatially uniform? 

What is an adiabatic pulse?

100

This bone type has shown plate microstructural changes prior to cartilage degeneration in OA.

What is subchondral trabecular bone?

100

A machine learning model, that is trained on a large corpa of different data types, and serves as a generalized basis for multiple downstream tasks.

What is a Multimodal Foundation Model?

100

This athlete excels in nearly all sports such as ultimate frisbee, cycling, and skiing, but they are truly dominant in spikeball!

Who is Akshay Chaudhari?

100

InfoNCE

What is Noise-Contrastive Estimation?

200

The person who is building AGI and trying to get it funded by the Saudi Government.

Who is Sam Altman?

200

This radiotracer detects the 3/4R tauopathy in Alzheimer's Disease (hint: used part of Stanford ADRC). Include the radioisotope. 

What is 18F-PI-2620?

200

This system produces fairly accurate protein structure prediction from amino acid sequences.

What is AlphaFold?


200

This technique reduces the number of features in a dataset while preserving as much variability as possible.

What is a PCA (Principal Component Analysis) used for?

200

This person was a Medical Image Analysis Scientist at GE before coming to Stanford.

Who is Mirabela Rusu?

200

GRU


What is a Gated Recurrent Unit?

300

This AI researcher and scientist at Google Brain is known for the popular deep learning framework, TensorFlow.

Who is Jeff Dean?

300

This k-space trajectory is used in an encoding strategy that takes advantage of larger G lobes. The new Siemens scanners would help reduce scan time of this acquistion. 

What is EPI?

300

What procedure can be applied to improve achilles injury recovery time? (hint: Aaron Rodgers)

What is speedbridge?

300

A popular approach in deep learning for sequential data, often used in time series and language modeling.

What is a RNN (Recurrent Neural Network)?

300

This person has been at Stanford since 1974.

Who is Sandy?

300

Adam

What is Adaptive Moment Estimator?

400

The person who invented both the ADAM optimizer and Variational Autoencoder.

Who is Durk Kingma?


400

What are the two main techniques to improve coincidence efficiency for PET?

What is geometric efficiency and intrinsic detection efficiency?

400

The equivalent radiograph plane to the cross-sectional anatomical plane that lies exactly at the midline and separates the body into left and right portions.

What is lateral?

400

A hierarchical vision transformer used for 3D medical image segmentation that leverage multi-scale features?

What does a Swin-UnetR do?

400

This person has really developed AIMI's social media presence.

Who is Johanna?

400

ELBO

What is Evidence Lower Bound?

500

This person coined the term Artificial Intelligence?

Who is John McCarthy, a Stanford professor? -- coined this term in 1955

500

This factor, often overlooked in SNR calculation in MR studies, should be accounted for since the variance is not the same between the background and signal regions! 

What is Rayleigh distribution? (can also use non-background ROI w/ large and flat signal)

500

First FDA approved CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing therapy; it aims to cure sickle cell disease.

What makes Casgevy a special drug?


500

A efficient implementation of the core mechanism in a transformer, optimized to reduce memory usage and introduced in PyTorch 2.2.

What is Flash-Attention?


500

The person wrote a book about radiology reports. (name + book year for full credit)

What did Curt do in 2015?

500

MH-MCMC

What is Metropolis-Hastings Markov chain Monte Carlo?