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March 15, 2024

Faculty spotlight: Domenico Mastrodicasa, MD

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New UW Radiology Acting Instructor Domenico Mastrodicasa, M.D., has had a variety of research and articles published recently. In October 2023, Nature published a news feature titled How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing. The article feature insights from multiple contributors, and Dr. Mastrodicasa is quoted and also cited twice. Right before the…

February 22, 2024

IMDS announces 2023-24 Pilot Teams

Learn more about application process for the 2024-25 IMDS RFA! Download a PDF of this article here: 2023-2024 IMDS Pilot Teams.pdf

December 20, 2023

Dr. Savannah Partridge interviewed by Trevor Noah in video on breast imaging AI

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  UW Radiology Professor Savannah Partridge, Ph.D., was recently interviewed by “Chief Questions Officer” and world-famous South African comedian and writer Trevor Noah! Watch Dr. Partridge and Noah in the short video “How can AI help radiologists better detect breast cancer?” The piece is part of a web series called “The Prompt” which is produced…

December 18, 2023

Dr. Feng Zhang receives grant funding from the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

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UW Radiology Research Scientist and Engineer Three Feng Zhang, Ph.D., who works at the Image-Guided Bio-Molecular Intervention Laboratory headed by Professor Xiaoming Yang, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., has received one $1.6 million, four-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant in funding support from the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). The title of…

November 30, 2023

Dr. Mahmud Mossa-Basha appointed to the Ellsworth C. and Nancy D. Alvord Endowed Chair in Neuro-oncology

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The UW Radiology Department is pleased to announce that Professor Mahmud Mossa-Basha, M.D., has been appointed to the Ellsworth C. and Nancy D. Alvord Endowed Chair in Neuro-oncology, confirmed by the Board of Regents. Dr. Mossa-Basha is also the UW Radiology Vice-Chair of Clinical Research and Clinical Transformation and the Co-Director of the Research Vascular…

November 6, 2023

Co-directors named for the Nathan Shock Center

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Dr. David Marcinek, Radiology professor, and Dr. Jessica Young, associate professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP), have been selected as co-directors of the Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging. The announcement was made by Dr. Geoffrey Baird, MD, PhD, professor and Chair of the DLMP.  …

October 31, 2023

FDA publishes list of AI-enabled medical devices

List of all companies and number of 2023 FDA approved AI devices in radiology.

By Professor Paul Kinahan, PhD   On October 19th, the FDA published its 2023 list of authorized AI-enabled medical devices. This year 171 additional medical devices were added to the list; a 33% increase in one year. Although there is a tremendous amount of interest in using generative AI in medical devices, as yet no…

October 30, 2023

Anum Kazerouni, Ph.D., presents at Young Investigator Symposium

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Postdoctoral researcher Anum Kazerouni, Ph.D. gave an oral presentation on her study, “Identification of pretreatment imaging signatures for the prediction of patient outcome in triple negative breast cancer” at the Young Investigator Symposium at the Fall Group Meeting of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN), this past week. The Young Investigator Symposium is a professional mentoring…

October 13, 2023

UW Radiology and United Imaging host successful Symposium

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The inaugural Global PET/MR Symposium: Focus on Oncology was held on Saturday, September 30, 2023, at the University of Washington (UW) Medicine South Lake Union Campus. The Symposium was sponsored by United Imaging and UW Radiology and included guest speakers and panel discussions. Seventy radiological professionals attended, with the majority joining from the Seattle area,…

September 7, 2023

New study on contrast mammography and abbreviated breast MRI for screening

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The UW Breast Imaging research team led by Assistant Professor Marissa Lawson, MD (lead author, pictured left) and Professor Janie Lee, MD (senior author, right) recently published a new study in Radiology on the topic of breast cancer screening with contrast-enhanced mammography compared with Abbreviated MRI. Study results indicated that breast cancer screening performance with…