CT-Derived Body Composition Assessment as a Prognostic Tool in Oncologic Patients: From Opportunistic Research to Artificial Intelligence–Based Clinical …

DDB Bates, PJ Pickhardt - American Journal of …, 2022 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
Please see the Editorial Comment by James S. Jelinek discussing this article. CT-based
body composition measures are well established in research settings as prognostic markers …

Opportunistic Screening: Radiology Scientific Expert Panel

PJ Pickhardt, RM Summers, JW Garrett, A Krishnaraj… - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Radiologic tests often contain rich imaging data not relevant to the clinical indication.
Opportunistic screening refers to the practice of systematically leveraging these incidental …

Abdominal CT body composition thresholds using automated AI tools for predicting 10-year adverse outcomes

MH Lee, R Zea, JW Garrett, PM Graffy, RM Summers… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Background CT-based body composition measures derived from fully automated artificial
intelligence tools are promising for opportunistic screening. However, body composition …

Improved CT-based osteoporosis assessment with a fully automated deep learning tool

PJ Pickhardt, T Nguyen, AA Perez, PM Graffy… - Radiology: Artificial …, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To develop, test, and validate a deep learning (DL) tool that improves upon a
previous feature-based CT image processing bone mineral density (BMD) algorithm and …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of emphysema on thoracic low-dose CTs through attention-based multiple instance deep learning

J Fuhrman, R Yip, Y Zhu, AC Jirapatnakul, F Li… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In addition to lung cancer, other thoracic abnormalities, such as emphysema, can be
visualized within low-dose CT scans that were initially obtained in cancer screening …

Abdominal Imaging in the Coming Decades: Better, Faster, Safer, and Cheaper?

PJ Pickhardt - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
worldwide reach. Thus, it is the imaging modality best suited to address the global health
issues related to hepatic steatosis and metabolic syndrome. Although MRI (and CT) are …

Advances in Thoracic Imaging: Key Developments in the Past Decade and Future Directions

M Nishino, ML Schiebler - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Advances in Thoracic Imaging of chest radiographs. The use of deep learning to detect
pulmonary tuberculosis on chest radiographs has demonstrated high performance, with an …

AI-based opportunistic CT screening of incidental cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and sarcopenia: cost-effectiveness analysis

PJ Pickhardt, L Correale, C Hassan - Abdominal Radiology, 2023 - Springer
Purpose To assess the cost-effectiveness and clinical efficacy of AI-assisted abdominal CT-
based opportunistic screening for atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) disease, osteoporosis …

AI body composition in lung cancer screening: added value beyond lung cancer detection

K Xu, MS Khan, TZ Li, R Gao, JG Terry, Y Huo… - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Background An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm has been developed for fully automated
body composition assessment of lung cancer screening noncontrast low-dose CT of the …

CancerUniT: Towards a Single Unified Model for Effective Detection, Segmentation, and Diagnosis of Eight Major Cancers Using a Large Collection of CT Scans

J Chen, Y Xia, J Yao, K Yan, J Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Human readers or radiologists routinely perform full-body multi-organ multi-disease
detection and diagnosis in clinical practice, while most medical AI systems are built to focus …