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2023

Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Cen SY, Varghese BA, Hwang DH, Lei X, Desai B, Duddalwar V, Matcuk GR Jr. Predicting Soft Tissue Sarcoma Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Using an MRI-Based Delta-Radiomics Approach. Mol Imaging Biol. 2023 Jan 25. doi: 10.1007/s11307-023-01803-y. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36695966.


Cacciamani GE, Chu TN, Sanford DI, Abreu A, Duddalwar V, Oberai A, Kuo CJ, Liu X, Denniston AK, Vasey B, McCulloch P, Wolff RF, Mallett S, Mongan J, Kahn CE Jr, Sounderajah V, Darzi A, Dahm P, Moons KGM, Topol E, Collins GS, Moher D, Gill IS, Hung AJ. PRISMA AI reporting guidelines for systematic reviews and meta-analyses on AI in healthcare. Nat Med. 2023 Jan;29(1):14-15. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-02139-w. PMID: 36646804.


2022

Cacciamani GE, Sanford DI, Chu TN, Kaneko M, De Castro Abreu AL, Duddalwar V, Gill IS. Is Artificial Intelligence Replacing Our Radiology Stars? Not Yet! Eur Urol Open Sci. 2022 Dec 19;48:14-16. doi: 10.1016/j.euros.2022.09.024. PMID: 36588775; PMCID: PMC9794880.


Varghese B, Cen S, Zahoor H, Siddiqui I, Aron M, Sali A, Rhie S, Lei X, Rivas M, Liu D, Hwang D, Quinn D, Desai M, Vaishampayan U, Gill I, Duddalwar V. Feasibility of using CT radiomic signatures for predicting CD8-T cell infiltration and PD-L1 expression in renal cell carcinoma. Eur J Radiol Open. 2022 Sep 2;9:100440. doi: 10.1016/j.ejro.2022.100440. PMID: 36090617; PMCID: PMC9460152.


Ajmera P, Kharat A, Gupte T, Pant R, Kulkarni V, Duddalwar V, Lamghare P. Observer performance evaluation of the feasibility of a deep learning model to detect cardiomegaly on chest radiographs. Acta Radiol Open. 2022 Jul 21;11(7):20584601221107345. doi: 10.1177/20584601221107345. PMID: 35899142; PMCID: PMC9309780.


Azadikhah A, Varghese BA, Lei X, Martin-King C, Cen SY, Duddalwar VA. Radiomics quality score in renal masses: a systematic assessment on current literature. Br J Radiol. 2022 Sep 1;95(1137):20211211. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20211211. Epub 2022 Jun 15. PMID: 35671097.


Morrison G, Buckley J, Ostrow D, Varghese B, Cen SY, Werbin J, Ericson N, Cunha A, Lu YT, George T, Smith J, Quinn D, Duddalwar V, Triche T, Goldkorn A. Non-Invasive Profiling of Advanced Prostate Cancer via Multi-Parametric Liquid Biopsy and Radiomic Analysis. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Feb 25;23(5):2571. doi: 10.3390/ijms23052571. PMID: 35269713; PMCID: PMC8910093.


Ajmera P, Kharat A, Dhirawani S, Khaladkar SM, Kulkarni V, Duddalwar V, Lamghare P, Rathi S. Evaluating the Association Between Comorbidities and COVID-19 Severity Scoring on Chest CT Examinations Between the Two Waves of COVID-19: An Imaging Study Using Artificial Intelligence. Cureus. 2022 Jan 27;14(1):e21656. doi: 10.7759/cureus.21656. PMID: 35233327; PMCID: PMC8881892.


Varghese BA, Lee S, Cen S, Talebi A, Mohd P, Stahl D, Perkins M, Desai B, Duddalwar VA, Larsen LH. Characterizing breast masses using an integrative framework of machine learning and CEUS-based radiomics. J Ultrasound. 2022 Sep;25(3):699-708. doi: 10.1007/s40477-021-00651-2. Epub 2022 Jan 17. PMID: 35040103; PMCID: PMC9402818.


Ghoreifi A, Allgood E, Whang G, Douglawi A, Yu W, Cai J, Miranda G, Aron M, Schuckman A, Desai M, Gill I, Daneshmand S, Duddalwar V, Djaladat H. Risk factors and natural history of parastomal hernia after radical cystectomy and ileal conduit. BJU Int. 2022 Sep;130(3):381-388. doi: 10.1111/bju.15658. Epub 2021 Dec 6. PMID: 34837315.


Demirjian NL, Varghese BA, Cen SY, Hwang DH, Aron M, Siddiqui I, Fields BKK, Lei X, Yap FY, Rivas M, Reddy SS, Zahoor H, Liu DH, Desai M, Rhie SK, Gill IS, Duddalwar V. CT-based radiomics stratification of tumor grade and TNM stage of clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Eur Radiol. 2022 Apr;32(4):2552-2563. doi: 10.1007/s00330-021-08344-4. Epub 2021 Nov 10. PMID: 34757449.


Tafuri A, Iwata A, Shakir A, Iwata T, Gupta C, Sali A, Sugano D, Mahdi AS, Cacciamani GE, Kaneko M, Cai J, Ukimura O, Duddalwar V, Aron M, Gill IS, Palmer SL, Abreu AL. Can We Avoid a Systematic Biopsy in Men with PI-RADSĀ® 5? Reply. J Urol. 2022 Jan;207(1):241-242. doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000002299. Epub 2021 Oct 19. PMID: 34664523.


Nassiri N, Maas M, Cacciamani G, Varghese B, Hwang D, Lei X, Aron M, Desai M, Oberai AA, Cen SY, Gill IS, Duddalwar VA. A Radiomic-based Machine Learning Algorithm to Reliably Differentiate Benign Renal Masses from Renal Cell Carcinoma. Eur Urol Focus. 2022 Jul;8(4):988-994. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2021.09.004. Epub 2021 Sep 16. PMID: 34538748.


Chang E, Apolo AB, Bangs R, Chisolm S, Duddalwar V, Efstathiou JA, Goldberg KB, Hansel DE, Kamat AM, Kluetz PG, Lerner SP, Plimack E, Prowell T, Singh H, Suzman D, Yu EY, Zhang H, Beaver JA, Pazdur R, Weinstock C, Galsky MD. Refining neoadjuvant therapy clinical trial design for muscle-invasive bladder cancer before cystectomy: a joint US Food and Drug Administration and Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network workshop. Nat Rev Urol. 2022 Jan;19(1):37-46. doi: 10.1038/s41585-021-00505-w. Epub 2021 Sep 10. PMID: 34508246.


2021

Ghoreifi A, Allgood E, Whang G, Douglawi A, Yu W, Cai J, Miranda G, Aron M, Schuckman A, Desai M, Gill I, Daneshmand S, Duddalwar V, Djaladat H. Risk factors and natural history of parastomal hernia after radical cystectomy and ileal conduit. BJU Int. 2022 Sep;130(3):381-388. doi: 10.1111/bju.15658. Epub 2021 Dec 6. PMID: 34837315.


Lei M, Varghese B, Hwang D, Cen S, Lei X, Desai B, Azadikhah A, Oberai A, Duddalwar V. Benchmarking Various Radiomic Toolkit Features While Applying the Image Biomarker Standardization Initiative toward Clinical Translation of Radiomic Analysis. J Digit Imaging. 2021 Oct;34(5):1156-1170. doi: 10.1007/s10278-021-00506-6. Epub 2021 Sep 20. PMID: 34545475; PMCID: PMC8554949.


Varghese BA, Shin H, Desai B, Gholamrezanezhad A, Lei X, Perkins M, Oberai A, Nanda N, Cen S, Duddalwar V. Predicting clinical outcomes in COVID-19 using radiomics on chest radiographs. Br J Radiol. 2021 Oct 1;94(1126):20210221. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20210221. Epub 2021 Sep 14. PMID: 34520246; PMCID: PMC9328073.


Ahmadi H, Duddalwar V, Daneshmand S. Diagnosis and Staging of Bladder Cancer. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2021 Jun;35(3):531-541. doi: 10.1016/j.hoc.2021.02.004. Epub 2021 Apr 15. PMID: 33958149.


2020

Hassani C, Varghese BA, Nieva J, Duddalwar V. Radiomics in Pulmonary Lesion Imaging. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2019 Mar;212(3):497-504. doi: 10.2214/AJR.18.20623. Epub 2019 Jan 8. PMID: 30620678.


Felix Y. Yap, Bino A. Varghese, Steven Y. Cen, Darryl H. Hwang, Xiaomeng Lei, Bhushan Desai, Christopher Lau, Lindsay L. Yang, Austin J. Fullenkamp, Simin Hajian, Marielena Rivas, Megha Nayyar Gupta, Brian D. Quinn, Manju Aron, Mihir M. Desai, Monish Aron, Assad A. Oberai, Inderbir S. Gill, Vinay A. Duddalwar. Shape and Texture-based Radiomics Signature on CT Effectively Discriminates Benign from Malignant Renal Masses. European Radiology. 2020.


Cacciamani G, Nassiri N, Varghese V, Maas M, King K, Hwang D, Abreu A, Gill I, Duddalwar V. Radiomics in Urothelial cancer: Current Status. Bladder Cancer 2020.


Felix Y. Yap, Bino A. Varghese, Steven Y. Cen, Darryl H. Hwang, Xiaomeng Lei, Bhushan Desai, Christopher Lau, Lindsay L. Yang, Austin J. Fullenkamp, Simin Hajian, Marielena Rivas, Megha Nayyar Gupta, Brian D. Quinn, Manju Aron, Mihir M. Desai, Monish Aron, Assad A. Oberai, Inderbir S. Gill, Vinay A. Duddalwar. Shape and Texture-based Radiomics Signature on CT Effectively Discriminates Benign from Malignant Renal Masses. European Radiology. 2020.


Oberai A, Varghese B, Cen S, Angelini T, Hwang D, Gill I, Aron M, Lau C, Duddalwar V. Deep learning based classification of solid Lipid-poor contrast enhancing renal masses using contrast enhanced CT. Br J Radiol. 2020 May 1:20200002. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20200002. PubMed PMID: 32356484.


Moorthy B, Varghese B, Moorthy A, Rajack S, Cen S, Duddalwar V. Radiomics to predict Nodal Status in Male Breast Cancer. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2020.


Fields BK, Hwang D, Cen S, Desai B, Gulati M, Hu J, Duddalwar V, Varghese B, Matcuk Jr GR. Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (q-MRI) for the assessment of soft-tissue sarcoma treatment response: a narrative case review of technique development. Clinical Imaging. 2020 Feb 28.


Varghese BA, Hwang D, Cen SY, Levy J, Liu D, Lau C, Rivas M, Desai B, Goodenough DJ, Duddalwar VA. Reliability of CT-based texture features: Phantom study. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2019 Jun 20. doi: 10.1002/acm2.12666. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31222919.


Hassani C, Saremi F, Varghese BA, Duddalwar V. Myocardial Radiomics in Cardiac MRI. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2020 Mar; 214(3):536-45.


2019

Varghese B, Chen F, Hwang D, Palmer SL, De Castro Abreu AL, Ukimura O, Aron M, Aron M, Gill I, Duddalwar V, Pandey G. Objective risk stratification of prostate cancer using machine learning and radiomics applied to multiparametric magnetic resonance images. Sci Rep. 2019 Feb 7; 9(1):1570. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-38381-x. PubMed PMID: 30733585; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6367324.


Varghese BA, Cen SY, Hwang DH, Duddalwar VA. Texture Analysis of Imaging: What Radiologists Need to Know. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2019 Mar;212(3):520-528. doi: 10.2214/AJR.18.20624. Epub 2019 Jan 15. PubMed PMID: 30645163.


Hassani C, Varghese BA, Nieva J, Duddalwar V. Radiomics in Pulmonary Lesion Imaging. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2019 Mar;212(3):497-504. doi: 10.2214/AJR.18.20623. Epub 2019 Jan 8. PubMed PMID: 30620678.


Gill TS, Varghese BA, Hwang DH, Cen SY, Aron M, Aron M, Duddalwar VA. Juxtatumoral perinephric fat analysis in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2019 Apr;44(4):1470-1480. doi: 10.1007/s00261-018-1848-x. PubMed PMID: 30506142.


Hassani C, Saremi F, Varghese BA, Duddalwar V. Myocardial Radiomics in Cardiac MRI. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2020 Mar;214(3):536-545. doi: 10.2214/AJR.19.21986. Epub 2019 Dec 4. PMID: 31799865.


2018

Gulati M, Cheng J, Loo JT, Skalski M, Malhi H, Duddalwar V. Pictorial review: Renal ultrasound. Clin Imaging. 2018 Sep-Oct;51:133-154. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2018.02.012. Epub 2018 Feb 16. PMID: 29477809.


Yap FY, Hwang DH, Cen SY, Varghese BA, Desai B, Quinn BD, Gupta MN, Rajarubendra N, Desai MM, Aron M, Liang G. Quantitative Contour Analysis as an Image-Based Discriminator between Benign and Malignant Renal Tumors. Urology. 2018 Jan: 114(1): 121-27. PMID: 29305199


Bino Abel Varghese, Frank Chen, Darryl Hwang, Steven Cen, Inderbir Gill, Vinay Duddalwar. Differentiation of Predominantly Solid, Enhancing Lipid-Poor Renal Cell masses Using Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography: Evaluating the Role of Texture in Tumor Sub-typing. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2018 211:6, W288-W296


Bino Abel Varghese, Frank Chen, Darryl Hwang, Steven Cen, Inderbir Gill, Vinay Duddalwar. Differentiating solid, non-macroscopic fat containing, enhancing renal masses using Fast Fourier Transform Analysis of Multiphase CT. British Journal of Radiology. 2018. Jun 21:20170789. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20170789. PMID: 29888982


Gautam Kunapuli, Bino Abel Varghese, Priya Ganapathy, Bhushan Desai, Steven Cen, Manju Aron, Inderbir Singh Gill, Vinay Duddalwar. Decision Support Tool for Renal Mass Classification. Journal of Digital Imaging. 2018. Jul 6. doi: 10.1007/s10278-018-0100-0. PMID: 29980960


Ting-wei Fan, Harshawn Malhi, Bino Varghese, Steve Cen, Darryl Hwang, Manju Aron, Nieroshan Rajarubendra, Mihir Desai, Vinay Duddalwar. Computed Tomography-based Texture Analysis of Bladder Cancer: Differentiating Urothelial Carcinoma From Micropapillary Carcinoma. Abdominal Radiology. 2018 July: 1-8 https://doi-org.libproxy1.usc.edu/10.1007/s00261-018-1694-x


2017

Gangning Liang, Ph.D; Kamilla Mundbjerg; Sameer Chopra; Mehrdad Alemozaffar; Christopher Duymich; Ranjani Lakshminarasimhan; Peter Nichols; Manju Aron; Mariana Stern; Kimberly Siegmund; Osamu Ukimura; Monish Aron; Parkash Gill; John Carpten; Torben Ƙrntoft; Karina SĆørensen; Daniel Weisenberger; Peter Jones; Vinay Duddalwar; Inderbir Gill. Identifying aggressive prostate cancer foci using a DNA methylation classifier. Genome Biol. 2017 Jan 12;18(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s13059-016-1129-3. PMID: 28081708


D Hwang, B Varghese, M Chang, C Deng, C Ugweze, S Cen, V Duddalwar. Radiomics-Based Quantitative Biomarker Discovery: Development of a Robust Image Processing Infrastructure. SPIE Proceedings 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2256829


B Varghese, D Hwang, S Cen, B Desai, F Yap, I Gill, M Desai, M Aron, G Liang, M Chang, C Deng, M Kwon, C Ugweze, F Chen, V Duddalwar. Fast Fourier Transform Based Analysis of Renal Masses on Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography Images for Grading of Tumor. SPIE Proceedings 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2256871


2016

Chen F, Gulati M, Hwang D, Cen S, Yap F, Ugwueze C, Varghese B, Desai M, Aron M, Gill I, Duddalwar V. Voxel-based whole-lesion enhancement parameters: a study of its clinical value in differentiating clear cell renal cell carcinoma from renal oncocytoma. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2016 Sep 6. PMID: 27595574.


Yepes-Calderon; Hwang; Johnson; Bhushan; Gajawelli; Yong; Quinn; Yap; Gill; Lepore; Duddalwar V. EdgeRunner: a Novel Shape-Based Pipeline for Tumours Analysis and Characterization. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization


Sameer Chopra, Jie Liu, Mehrdad Alemozaffar, Peter Nichols, Manju Aron, Daniel Weisenberger, Clayton Collings, Sumeet Syan, Bryan Hu, Mihir M Desai, Monish Aron, Vinay Duddalwar, Inderbir Gill, Gangning Liang, and Kimberly Siegmund. Improving needle biopsy accuracy in small renal mass using tumor-specific DNA methylation markers. Oncotarget. 2016 Sep 27. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.12276. PMID: 27690297


2015

D Hwang ; K Ma; F Yepes; M Nadamuni; M Nayyar; B Liu; V Duddalwar; N Lepore. Multidimensional Interactive Radiology Report and Analysis: standardization of workflow and reporting for renal mass tracking and quantification. Proceedings SPIE 9681, 11th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, 96810C. Dec 2015; doi:10.1117/12.2211526


King K, Gulati M, Hwang D, Cheng P, Gill I, Grant E, Duddalwar V. Quantitative Assessment of Solid Renal Masses by Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound with Time-Intensity Curves: How We Do It. Abdominal Radiology 2015 Oct; 40(7):2461-71 DOI: 10.1007/s00261-015-0468-y. PMID: 26036794


Huhdanpaa H, Chen F, Hwang D, Cen S, Desai B, Liang G, M Nayyar, Quinn B, Gill I, Duddalwar V. CT Prediction of the Fuhrman Grade of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC):Towards the Development of A Quantitative Metric. Abdominal Imaging. 2015 Oct; 40(8):3168-74. doi: 10.1007/s00261-015-0531-8. PMID: 26304585


Bernhard JC, Aron M, Desai M, Hwang D, Duddalwar V, Gill I et al. Personalized 3-D printed model of kidney and tumor anatomy: A useful tool for patient education. World Journal Of Urology. 2015 Jul 11. PMID: 26162845


Papalia R, De Castro Abreu AL, Panebianco V, Duddalwar V, Gallucci M, Gill IS. Novel kidney segmentation system to describe tumor location for nephron sparing surgery. World J of Urology. 2015 Jun;33(6)865-71. PMID:25159872


2014

Leslie S, Gill I, Aron M, Nguyen M, Duddalwar V, Desai M. Renal Contact Surface Area: A new metric to predict complexities and outcomes of partial nephrectomies. European Urology 2014. Nov;66(5):884-93. pii: S0302-2838(14)00246-2. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2014.03.010. PMID 24680360