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2026

Predicting the When: Multimodal AI for Time-to-Recurrence Analysis After Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

Minglang Yin, Changxin Lai, Ritu Yadav, Jenna A. Milstein, et al.

All 22 authors

Minglang Yin, Changxin Lai, Ritu Yadav, Jenna A. Milstein, Linh Thi My Tran, Calvin O’Donnell, Sarah Schumacher, Craig Cronin, Robert Weinstein, Carolyna Yamamoto Alves Pinto, Zan Ahmad, Shiyi Chen, Arthur Lefebvre, Jooyoung Ryu, Audrey Lacy, Alana Thi Yee, Jiwoo Noh, Eugene Kholmovski, Mauro Maggioni, Hugh Calkins, David Spragg, Natalia Trayanova.

medRxiv preprint, v1, May 15, 2026. Not peer reviewed.

Preprint PDF Publication record DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.12.26353055

2025

Stimulation of the Thalamus for Arousal Restoral in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (START) Clinical Trial: Modulation of Natural Sleep and Focal Seizures

Taruna Yadav, Zheng Zhang, Vaclav Kremen, Zan Ahmad, et al.

All 62 authors

Taruna Yadav, Zheng Zhang, Vaclav Kremen, Zan Ahmad, Eva Alden, Joshua P. Aronson, Kimberly Bailey, Jonathan L. Baker, Christopher Benjamin, Benjamin H. Brinkmann, Jordan Burchfield, Krzysztof A. Bujarski, Xi Chen, Eun Young Choi, Kate Christison-Lagay, Devon Cormier, Paul E. Croarkin, Karla Crockett, George Culler, Kristine Dacosta, Eyiyemisi Damisah, Allyson Derry, Catherine Doucet, Eric B. Geller, Jason Gerrard, Joseph Giacino, Nicholas Gregg, Abhijeet Gummadavelli, Jaimie Henderson, Lawrence Hirsch, Jennifer Hong, Matthew Hook, Charlotte A. Jeffreys, Anastasia Kanishcheva, Ruben I. Kuzniecky, Patrice Lauture, Bogdan Patedakis Litvinov, Brian Lundstrom, Stephen Meisenhelter, Steven Messina, Charles Mikell, Sima Mofakham, Grant G. Moncrief, Kyle O’Sullivan, Maxime Oriol, Imran H. Quraishi, Jermaine Robertson, Robert M. Roth, Brian Rutt, Vladimir Sladky, Yinchen Song, Dennis Spencer, George P. Thomas, Jamie Van Gompel, Angela Waszkiewicz, Lydia Wheeler, Courtney Yotter, Christopher R. Butson, Nicholas Schiff, Barbara Jobst, Gregory Worrell, Hal Blumenfeld.

medRxiv preprint, v1, September 21, 2025. Not peer reviewed.

Preprint PDF Publication record DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.18.25335682

A computational pipeline for clustering left atrial appendage morphology via elastic shape analysis

Zan Ahmad, Minglang Yin, Yashil Sukurdeep, Noam Rotenberg, Eugene Kholmovksi, Natalia Trayanova.

Computers in Biology and Medicine 196 (Part C), 110905 (2025).

Preprint PDF Publication record DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.110905

Unmodified arXiv:2403.08685v4, July 1, 2025 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Original source

The hosted PDF is the July 2025 preprint (arXiv:2403.08685v4), which has an expanded author list. This citation follows the published journal metadata.

Thinner Latent Spaces: Detecting Dimension and Imposing Invariance with Conformal Autoencoders

George A. Kevrekidis, Zan Ahmad, Mauro Maggioni, Soledad Villar, Yannis G. Kevrekidis.

arXiv:2408.16138, revised preprint v2, July 11, 2025.

Preprint PDF Publication record DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.16138

Unmodified arXiv:2408.16138v2, July 11, 2025 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Original source

Originally posted in 2024; this citation uses the revised title and author list from 2025.

Low and high frequency signatures of impaired consciousness in temporal lobe seizures

Taruna Yadav, Bogdan Patedakis Litvinov, George W. Culler, Avisha Kumar, et al.

All 16 authors

Taruna Yadav, Bogdan Patedakis Litvinov, George W. Culler, Avisha Kumar, Aya Khalaf, Yinchen Song, Benjamin H. Brinkmann, Boney Joseph, Zan Ahmad, Nisali Gunawardane, Violeta Contreras Ramirez, Imran H. Quraishi, START Clinical Trial Research Consortium, Barbara C. Jobst, Gregory Worrell, Hal Blumenfeld.

bioRxiv preprint, v1, July 4, 2025. Not peer reviewed.

Preprint PDF Publication record DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.01.662627

Steady-State Analysis of Gravitational Effects on Hemodynamics

Alanna Kennard, Zan Ahmad, John Solak, John W. Davis, Rebecca S. Blue, Charles S. Peskin, Karen M. Ong.

Research Square preprint, v1, June 5, 2025.

Preprint PDF Publication record DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6603346/v1

Convolutional Deep Operator Networks for Learning Nonlinear Focused Ultrasound Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Spinal Cord Anatomy

Avisha Kumar, Xuzhe Zhi, Zan Ahmad, Minglang Yin, Amir Manbachi.

AAAI 2025 Workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering (oral presentation).

Preprint PDF Publication record DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.16118

Unmodified arXiv:2412.16118v1, December 20, 2024 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Original source

arXiv preprint first posted December 20, 2024.

Diffeomorphic Latent Neural Operators for Data-Efficient Learning of Solutions to Partial Differential Equations

Zan Ahmad, Shiyi Chen, Minglang Yin, Avisha Kumar, Nicolas Charon, Natalia Trayanova, Mauro Maggioni.

AAAI 2025 Workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering.

Preprint PDF Publication record DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.18014

Unmodified arXiv:2411.18014v2, November 29, 2024 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Original source

arXiv preprint first posted November 27, 2024; revised November 29, 2024.

2024

Graph Fourier Neural Kernels (G-FuNK): Learning Solutions of Nonlinear Diffusive Parametric PDEs on Multiple Domains

Shane E. Loeffler, Zan Ahmad, Syed Yusuf Ali, Carolyna Yamamoto, Dan M. Popescu, Alana Yee, Yash Lal, Natalia Trayanova, Mauro Maggioni.

arXiv:2410.04655, preprint v2, October 9, 2024.

Preprint PDF Publication record DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2410.04655

Unmodified arXiv:2410.04655v2, October 9, 2024 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Original source

A comprehensive stroke risk assessment by combining atrial computational fluid dynamics simulations and functional patient data

Alberto Zingaro, Zan Ahmad, Eugene Kholmovski, Kensuke Sakata, Luca Dede’, Alan K. Morris, Alfio Quarteroni, Natalia A. Trayanova.

Scientific Reports 14, article 9515 (April 25, 2024).

Journal PDF Publication record DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59997-2

Unmodified Published journal article, April 25, 2024 · CC BY 4.0 · Original source

2022

Optimal Fenestration of the Fontan Circulation

Zan Ahmad, Lynn H. Jin, Daniel J. Penny, Craig G. Rusin, Charles S. Peskin, Charles Puelz.

Frontiers in Physiology 13, article 867995 (June 30, 2022).

Journal PDF Publication record DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.867995

Unmodified Published journal article, June 30, 2022 · CC BY 4.0 · Original source

Conference abstracts

Short meeting abstracts, listed separately from full articles and preprints.

AI-based shape analysis correlates left atrial appendage morphology with stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation

Minglang Yin, Zan Ahmad, Emmanuel Hartman, Yashil Sukurdeep, Shiyi Chen, Jiwoo Noh, Nicolas Charon, David D. Spragg, Natalia A. Trayanova.

Heart Rhythm 22(4 Supplement), S590–S591 (April 2025). Conference abstract PO-05-062.

Abstract DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2025.03.1460

Multimodal artificial intelligence for predicting atrial fibrillation recurrence using pre-procedural data

Minglang Yin, Changxin Lai, Ritu Yadav, Jenna A. Milstein, et al.

All 22 authors

Minglang Yin, Changxin Lai, Ritu Yadav, Jenna A. Milstein, Linh T. My Tran, Calvin O’Donnell, Sarah Schumacher, Craig Cronin, Robert Weinstein, Sanaz Norgard, Carolyna Y. Alves Pinto, Zan Ahmad, Shiyi Chen, Arthur Lefebvre, Jooyoung Ryu, Audrey Lacy, Alana T. Yee, Jiwoo Noh, Eugene G. Kholmovski, David D. Spragg, Hugh Calkins, Natalia A. Trayanova.

Heart Rhythm 22(4 Supplement), S591 (April 2025). Conference abstract PO-05-063.

Abstract DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2025.03.1461

Stroke risk is identified by slow blood flow and stagnant blood particles in the left atrium

Alberto Zingaro, Zan Ahmad, Carolyna Yamamoto Alves Pinto, Kensuke Sakata, Eugene G. Kholmovski, Luca Dede’, Alfio Quarteroni, Natalia A. Trayanova.

Heart Rhythm 20(5 Supplement), S161–S162 (May 2023). Conference abstract PO-01-210.

Abstract DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2023.03.528