Elena Sizikova

Senior Staff Fellow
Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH)
Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories (OSEL)
Division of Imaging, Diagnostics, and Software Reliability (DIDSR)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Medical Imaging and Computer Vision Researcher

Email: elena.sizikova (at) fda.hhs.gov

I am a senior staff fellow (research scientist) in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Silver Spring, MD. I'm interested in problems at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), medical imaging and computer vision. Specifically, my research focuses on synthetic data in medical imaging, regulatory science and the limitations of medical data in AI.

Andrea Kim*, Niloufar Saharkhiz*, Elena Sizikova*, Miguel Lago, Berkman Sahiner, Jana G. Delfino, Aldo Badano
S-SYNTH: Knowledge-Based, Synthetic Generation of Skin Images
* - equal contribution.
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024 (Oral Presentation).
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Elena Sizikova, Andreu Badal, Jana G. Delfino, Miguel Lago, Brandon Nelson, Niloufar Saharkhiz, Berkman Sahiner, Ghada Zamzmi, Aldo Badano
Synthetic data in radiological imaging: Current state and future outlook
BJR Artificial Intelligence 2024.
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Elena Sizikova, Niloufar Saharkhiz, Diksha Sharma, Miguel Lago, Berkman Sahiner, Jana G. Delfino, Aldo Badano
Knowledge-based in silico models and dataset for the comparative evaluation of mammography AI for a range of breast characteristics, lesion conspicuities and doses
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023.
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Ajay Subramanian, Elena Sizikova, Najib Majaj, Denis G. Pelli
Spatial-frequency channels, shape bias, and adversarial robustness
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023 (Oral Presentation).
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Aldo Badano, Miguel Lago, Elena Sizikova, Jana G. Delfino, Shuyue Guan, Mark A. Anastasio, Berkman Sahiner
The stochastic digital human is now enrolling for in silico imaging trials – Methods and tools for generating digital cohorts
Progress in Biomedical Engineering 2023.
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Huy V. Vo, Elena Sizikova, Cordelia Schmid, Patrick Pérez, Jean Ponce
Large-Scale Unsupervised Object Discovery
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021.
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