Naga Karthik Enamundram

Hi there! I’m Naga, a fourth-year PhD student at NeuroPoly, Polytechnique Montréal. I’m also affiliated to Mila - Québec AI Institute. During my PhD, I worked on developing deep learning-based methods for medical image analysis, with a particular focus on improving the estimation of imaging biomarkers using real-world spinal cord imaging data. I have developed automatic tools for segmentation of the spinal cord and lesions across various MRI contrasts and pathologies such as spinal cord injury (SCI), multiple sclerosis (MS) and degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM). I have also experimented with generative modelling, in particular, training GANs for cross-modality MR-CT synthesis and diffusion models for synthesizing spinal cord lesions. In the past, I have also worked on the application of continual/lifelong learning methods for the segmentation of brain MS lesions. Please head to my Google Scholar profile for a complete list of my publications.
When I am not working, you’ll find me either running , hiking
, or reading
.
news
Jul 25, 2025 | Our paper “Dynamic Robot-Assisted Surgery with Hierarchical Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation” was accepted at MICCAI workshop on Applications of Medical Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) 2025 in Daejon, South Korea! 🇰🇷 |
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Mar 13, 2025 | I was featured in the UNIQUE-Québec Newsletter as part of their student spotlight series! Please find the newsletter here. 📰 |
Jan 13, 2025 | Our paper “Towards contrast-agnostic soft segmentation of the spinal cord” was accepted at the Medical Image Analysis journal (Impact Factor: 10.7)! 🎉 |
Jul 19, 2024 | Our paper “SCIsegV2: A Universal Tool for Segmentation of Intramedullary Lesions in Spinal Cord Injury” was accepted at MICCAI Applications of Medical Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) Workshop 2024 in Marrakech, Morocco! 🇲🇦 |
Mar 07, 2024 | I was awarded the DAAD Short-term Research Grant for a 4-month research stay at the Technical University of Munich, Germany! 🥨 🇩🇪 |
Feb 02, 2024 | Our recent works on contrast-agnostic spinal cord segmentation and segmentation of spinal cord injury lesions were accepted for Oral Presentations at the 2024 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Singapore ![]() |
Nov 22, 2023 | I gave a talk on Automatic Segmentation of Brain and Spinal Cord Lesions across Pathologies at the UNIQUE Fellows Get-Together, held at Mila! |
Jun 05, 2022 | Honoured to receive the Governor General of Canada’s Academic Gold Medal for outstanding academic achievements during my master’s at ÉTS! 🏅 🇨🇦 |