Kelly H Zou

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Is intracranial atherosclerosis an independent risk factor for cerebral atrophy? A retrospective evaluation
    S Erbay
    Department of Radiology, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
    BMC Neurol 8:51. 2008
  2. ncbi Detection of prostate cancer by integration of line-scan diffusion, T2-mapping and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging; a multichannel statistical classifier
    Ian Chan
    Surgical Planning Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Division of MRI, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Med Phys 30:2390-8. 2003
  3. ncbi Validation of image segmentation by estimating rater bias and variance
    Simon K Warfield
    Computational Radiology Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 366:2361-75. 2008
  4. ncbi Receiver-operating characteristic analysis for evaluating diagnostic tests and predictive models
    Kelly H Zou
    Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
    Circulation 115:654-7. 2007
  5. ncbi Whole-body MRI in suspected infant abuse
    Jeannette M Perez-Rossello
    Department of Radiology, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 195:744-50. 2010
  6. ncbi A global goodness-of-fit test for receiver operating characteristic curve analysis via the bootstrap method
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MIT, MA, USA
    J Biomed Inform 38:395-403. 2005
  7. ncbi A Bayesian hierarchical non-linear regression model in receiver operating characteristic analysis of clustered continuous diagnostic data
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Biom J 47:417-27. 2005
  8. ncbi Gender differences in research grant applications and funding outcomes for medical school faculty
    Susan E Waisbren
    Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:207-14. 2008
  9. ncbi Assessment of multiple sclerosis lesions with spherical harmonics: comparison of MR imaging and pathologic findings
    Daniel Goldberg-Zimring
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    Radiology 235:1036-44. 2005
  10. ncbi Statistical validation of brain tumor shape approximation via spherical harmonics for image-guided neurosurgery
    Daniel Goldberg-Zimring
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Acad Radiol 12:459-66. 2005

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Publications61

  1. ncbi Is intracranial atherosclerosis an independent risk factor for cerebral atrophy? A retrospective evaluation
    S Erbay
    Department of Radiology, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
    BMC Neurol 8:51. 2008
    ..Our purpose was to study the association between the intracranial atherosclerosis as measured by cavernous carotid artery calcification (ICAC) observed on head CT and atrophic changes of supra-tentorial brain demonstrated by MRI...
  2. ncbi Detection of prostate cancer by integration of line-scan diffusion, T2-mapping and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging; a multichannel statistical classifier
    Ian Chan
    Surgical Planning Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Division of MRI, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Med Phys 30:2390-8. 2003
    ....
  3. ncbi Validation of image segmentation by estimating rater bias and variance
    Simon K Warfield
    Computational Radiology Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Children s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 366:2361-75. 2008
    ....
  4. ncbi Receiver-operating characteristic analysis for evaluating diagnostic tests and predictive models
    Kelly H Zou
    Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
    Circulation 115:654-7. 2007
  5. ncbi Whole-body MRI in suspected infant abuse
    Jeannette M Perez-Rossello
    Department of Radiology, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 195:744-50. 2010
    ..The purpose of our study was to examine the utility of whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) in the detection of skeletal and soft-tissue injuries in suspected infant abuse...
  6. ncbi A global goodness-of-fit test for receiver operating characteristic curve analysis via the bootstrap method
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MIT, MA, USA
    J Biomed Inform 38:395-403. 2005
    ..The main objective was to develop a global statistical hypothesis test for assessing the goodness-of-fit (GOF) for parametric ROC curves via the bootstrap...
  7. ncbi A Bayesian hierarchical non-linear regression model in receiver operating characteristic analysis of clustered continuous diagnostic data
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Biom J 47:417-27. 2005
    ..A hierarchical regression analysis incorporating the effects of cluster (clinical center) and cancer risk (low, intermediate, and high) was performed, and the area under the ROC curve (AUC) was estimated...
  8. ncbi Gender differences in research grant applications and funding outcomes for medical school faculty
    Susan E Waisbren
    Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:207-14. 2008
    ..To evaluate whether there were differences in acquisition of research grant support between male and female faculty at eight Harvard Medical School-affiliated institutions...
  9. ncbi Assessment of multiple sclerosis lesions with spherical harmonics: comparison of MR imaging and pathologic findings
    Daniel Goldberg-Zimring
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    Radiology 235:1036-44. 2005
    ..Mean DSC was significantly higher than 70% (P < .001). SH method provided unbiased lesion volume and added geometric information that may enable a better understanding of the pathogenesis and lesion evolution over time...
  10. ncbi Statistical validation of brain tumor shape approximation via spherical harmonics for image-guided neurosurgery
    Daniel Goldberg-Zimring
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Acad Radiol 12:459-66. 2005
    ..We performed a preliminary evaluation of the use of spherical harmonics (SH) in approximating the 3D shape and estimating the volume of brain tumors of varying characteristics...
  11. ncbi Three-dimensional assessment of MR imaging-guided percutaneous cryotherapy using multi-performer repeated segmentations: the value of supervised learning
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Acad Radiol 12:444-50. 2005
    ..We evaluated whether supervised learning methods would improve multiperformer repeated segmentations of magnetic resonance images (MRI) obtained before and after MRI-guided cryotherapy of renal cell carcinoma...
  12. ncbi Capturing intraoperative deformations: research experience at Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Simon K Warfield
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Med Image Anal 9:145-62. 2005
    ..This paper reviews the experience at Brigham and Women's Hospital through the process of developing and applying novel algorithms for capturing intraoperative deformations in support of image guided therapy...
  13. ncbi The use of receiver operating characteristic curves in biomedical informatics
    Thomas A Lasko
    Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Biomed Inform 38:404-15. 2005
    ..In this article, we review the basic concepts of ROC analysis, illustrate their use with sample calculations, make recommendations drawn from the literature, and list readily available software...
  14. ncbi Bayesian multivariate hierarchical transformation models for ROC analysis
    A James O'Malley
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Stat Med 25:459-79. 2006
    ..The proposed methodology is illustrated on prostate cancer biopsy data from a multi-centre clinical trial...
  15. ncbi Statistical combination schemes of repeated diagnostic test data
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Radiology L 2, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Acad Radiol 13:566-72. 2006
    ..When diagnostic tests are repeated and combined, a number of schemes may be adopted. Guidelines for their interpretations are required...
  16. ncbi Combining classifiers using their receiver operating characteristics and maximum likelihood estimation
    Steven Haker
    Surgical Planning Lab, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
    Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 8:506-14. 2005
    ..We offer some insights into the use of ROC analysis in the field of medical imaging...
  17. ncbi Rater-dependent accuracy in predicting the spatial location of functional centers on anatomical MR images
    Hillary K Rolls
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Clin Neurol Neurosurg 109:225-35. 2007
    ..This study examined the abilities of medical personnel of various backgrounds to predict the location of functional cortex using anatomical information provided by MR imaging...
  18. ncbi Validation of image segmentation by estimating rater bias and variance
    Simon K Warfield
    Computational Radiology Laboratory, Dept Radiology, Children s Hospital 2 Dept Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 9:839-47. 2006
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  19. ncbi Volumetric assessment of tumor infiltration of adjacent white matter based on anatomic MRI and diffusion tensor tractography
    Ion Florin Talos
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Acad Radiol 14:431-6. 2007
    ..We hypothesized that white matter infiltration may be common among different types of tumor...
  20. ncbi Role of endorectal coil magnetic resonance imaging in treatment of patients with prostate cancer and in determining radical prostatectomy surgical margin status: report of a single surgeon's practice
    Jian Qing Zhang
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Urology 69:1134-7. 2007
    ..To evaluate the role of the combination of endorectal coil and external multicoil array magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the management of prostate cancer and predicting the surgical margin status in a single-surgeon practice...
  21. ncbi Axial oblique CT to assess femoral anteversion
    Delma Y Jarrett
    Department of Radiology, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 194:1230-3. 2010
    ..Centers should consider replacing the standard straight axial technique with the axial oblique method for CT determination of femoral anteversion...
  22. ncbi Reproducibility of functional MR imaging: preliminary results of prospective multi-institutional study performed by Biomedical Informatics Research Network
    Kelly H Zou
    Surgical Planning Laboratory, Dept of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hosp, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Radiology 237:781-9. 2005
    ....
  23. ncbi Functional MRI of auditory verbal working memory: long-term reproducibility analysis
    Xingchang Wei
    Center for Neurological Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Neuroimage 21:1000-8. 2004
    ..The quantitative estimation of the proportions of within-subject and between-subject variabilities in the overall variability may be helpful for the design of future studies...
  24. ncbi Sample size considerations in observational health care quality studies
    Sharon Lise T Normand
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Stat Med 21:331-45. 2002
    ..If researchers are interested in comparing clusters, hierarchical models are preferred...
  25. ncbi Providing concept-oriented views for clinical data using a knowledge-based system: an evaluation
    Qing Zeng
    Decision System Group, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    J Am Med Inform Assoc 9:294-305. 2002
    ..g., laboratory, radiology). This study evaluates the functionality and utility of a knowledge-based system that generates concept-oriented views (organized around clinical concepts such as disease or organ system) of clinical data...
  26. ncbi Hypothesis testing I: proportions
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Radiology 226:609-13. 2003
    ..The statistical formulas used for these analyses are explained and demonstrated. These methods may enable systematic analysis of proportions and may be applied to many other radiologic investigations...
  27. ncbi Correlation and simple linear regression
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Radiology 227:617-22. 2003
    ..These statistical methods are important for exploring the relationships between variables and can be applied to many radiologic studies...
  28. ncbi Simultaneous truth and performance level estimation (STAPLE): an algorithm for the validation of image segmentation
    Simon K Warfield
    Harvard Medical School and the Department of Radiology of Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    IEEE Trans Med Imaging 23:903-21. 2004
    ..STAPLE is straightforward to apply to clinical imaging data, it readily enables assessment of the performance of an automated image segmentation algorithm, and enables direct comparison of human rater and algorithm performance...
  29. ncbi What is evidence-based medicine?
    Kelly H Zou
    Radiology Management Group, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Acad Radiol 11:127-33. 2004
    ..In this review article, we present the definition and useful concepts of evidence-based medicine (EBM). The principles of EBM are provided and major steps of practicing EBM are described...
  30. ncbi Three validation metrics for automated probabilistic image segmentation of brain tumours
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, U S A
    Stat Med 23:1259-82. 2004
    ..The performances of these validation metrics were also investigated via Monte Carlo simulation. Extensions of incorporating spatial correlation structures using a Markov random field model were considered...
  31. ncbi Supratentorial low-grade glioma resectability: statistical predictive analysis based on anatomic MR features and tumor characteristics
    Ion-Florin Talos
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Radiology 239:506-13. 2006
    ..01), and oligodendroglioma histopathologic type (P = .02). CONCLUSION: The main variables associated with incomplete tumor resection in 101 patients were identified by using statistical predictive analyses...
  32. ncbi Three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging technique for myocardial-delayed hyperenhancement: a comparison with the two-dimensional technique
    Servet Tatli
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Magn Reson Imaging 20:378-82. 2004
    ..To compare two-dimensional and three-dimensional techniques in the detection of myocardial infarction (MI) and in the grading transmural extent (TE)...
  33. ncbi Decreases in ventricular volume correlate with decreases in ventricular pressure in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus patients who experienced clinical improvement after implantation with adjustable valve shunts
    Kathleen A McConnell
    Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Neurosurgery 55:582-92; discussion 592-3. 2004
    ..This suggests that positive clinical responders retained parenchymal elasticity, emphasizing the importance of dynamic changes in this cohort...
  34. ncbi Tumor detection by virtual cystoscopy with color mapping of bladder wall thickness
    Julia R Fielding
    Department of Radiology and Division of Urologic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Urol 167:559-62. 2002
    ..The low specificity of color mapped 3-D renderings makes the technique inappropriate for screening. It may valuable for guiding urologists to additional suspicious sites in a patient with a known tumor...
  35. ncbi Statistical validation of image segmentation quality based on a spatial overlap index
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Radiology and Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St (Floor L-l, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Acad Radiol 11:178-89. 2004
    ..We observed generally satisfactory but variable validation results in two clinical applications. This metric may be adapted for similar validation tasks...
  36. ncbi Practice management performance indicators in academic radiology departments
    Silvia Ondategui-Parra
    Radiology Management Group, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Radiology 233:716-22. 2004
    ..To determine the management performance indicators most frequently utilized in academic radiology departments in the United States...
  37. ncbi Quantitative MR imaging assessment of prostate gland deformation before and during MR imaging-guided brachytherapy
    Masanori Hirose
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Acad Radiol 9:906-12. 2002
    ..5-T studies) and/or changes in patient position (supine vs lithotomy). These findings suggest that pretreatment images alone may not be reliable for accurate therapy planning. It may be useful to integrate pre-and intraoperative data...
  38. ncbi Telomerase activity predicts malignancy in percutaneous image-guided needle biopsy specimens of the abdomen and pelvis
    Vikas Kundra
    Division of Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, Department of Radiology and Division of Cytology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
    Radiology 234:941-7. 2005
    ..To determine prospectively if assessment of telomerase activity in percutaneous needle biopsy specimens improves sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis of abdominal and pelvic malignancy...
  39. ncbi Renal cell carcinoma: t1 and t2 signal intensity characteristics of papillary and clear cell types correlated with pathology
    M Raquel Oliva
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 192:1524-30. 2009
    ..The objective of our study was to describe the T1 and T2 signal intensity characteristics of papillary renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and clear cell RCC with pathologic correlation...
  40. ncbi Multidetector CT of the paranasal sinus: potential for radiation dose reduction
    Matthias H Brem
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Radiology 243:847-52. 2007
    ..On the basis of the results, tube currents can be lowered and radiation dose reduced by 20%...
  41. ncbi Routine pelvic and lower extremity CT venography in patients undergoing pulmonary CT angiography
    Andetta R Hunsaker
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 190:322-6. 2008
    ..The purpose of our study was to assess the utility of performing routine pelvic and lower extremity CT venography (CTV) along with pulmonary CT angiography (CTA) in all patients evaluated for pulmonary embolism...
  42. ncbi Quantitative analysis of MRI signal abnormalities of brain white matter with high reproducibility and accuracy
    Xingchang Wei
    Center for Neurological Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    J Magn Reson Imaging 15:203-9. 2002
    ..49 mL in aging subjects). CONCLUSION: The addition of TDS to the EM segmentation and PVEC algorithms significantly improved the accuracy of WMSA volume measurements, while also improving measurement reproducibility...
  43. ncbi Multi-detector row CT urography: comparison of strategies for depicting the normal urinary collecting system
    Jeffrey D McTavish
    Department of Radiology, Division of Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Radiology 225:783-90. 2002
    ..CONCLUSION: CT urography with a multi-detector row scanner and supplemental infusion of normal saline reliably displays the opacified urinary collecting system...
  44. ncbi Detection of simulated inflicted metaphyseal fractures in a fetal pig model: image optimization and dose reduction with computed radiography
    Patricia L Kleinman
    Department of Radiology, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Radiology 247:381-90. 2008
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  45. ncbi Electrocardiographically gated 16-section CT of the thorax: cardiac motion suppression
    Lars K Hofmann
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Radiology 233:927-33. 2004
    ..Best image quality was achieved by referencing image reconstruction to middiastole (50%-60%) for the left coronary artery, aortic root, and ascending aorta. The pulmonary arteries are best displayed during mid- to late diastole (80%)...
  46. ncbi Exploration of a bayesian updating methodology to monitor the safety of interventional cardiovascular procedures
    Frederic S Resnic
    Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Tower 3B, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Med Decis Making 24:399-407. 2004
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  47. ncbi Evaluation of small (</= 3 cm) renal masses with MDCT: benefits of thin overlapping reconstructions
    Masahiro Jinzaki
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 183:223-8. 2004
    ..Our purpose was to determine whether thin overlapping reconstructions using MDCT improve the detection and characterization of small renal masses...
  48. ncbi Clinical validity of a negative computed tomography scan in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism: a systematic review
    Rene Quiroz
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA
    JAMA 293:2012-7. 2005
    ..01 (95% CI, 0.01-0.02) and the overall NPV was 99.4% (95% CI, 98.7%-99.9%). CONCLUSION: The clinical validity of using a CT scan to rule out pulmonary embolism is similar to that reported for conventional pulmonary angiography...
  49. ncbi Use of productivity and financial indicators for monitoring performance in academic radiology departments: U.S. nationwide survey
    Silvia Ondategui-Parra
    Radiology Management Group, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, One Brigham Circle, 1620 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Radiology 236:214-9. 2005
    ..To determine how productivity- and finance-related indicators are used by radiology departments to evaluate departmental performance...
  50. ncbi Practice patterns of nonvascular interventional radiology procedures at academic centers in the United States?
    Paul Nikolaidis
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Acad Radiol 12:1475-82. 2005
    ..To determine and analyze the patterns of practice of nonvascular interventional procedures in academic centers in the United States...
  51. ncbi Using the rate of positive high-risk HPV test results for ASC-US together with the ASC-US/SIL ratio in evaluating the performance of cytopathologists
    Edmund S Cibas
    Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Am J Clin Pathol 129:97-101. 2008
    ..Both indicators together provide useful feedback to cytopathologists. We provide a working schema for interpreting perturbations in these indicators to assist in improving the quality of gynecologic cytology interpretations...
  52. ncbi Three-dimensional fast-recovery fast spin-echo MRCP: comparison with two-dimensional single-shot fast spin-echo techniques
    Aaron Sodickson
    Department of Radiology, Division of Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Radiology 238:549-59. 2006
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  53. ncbi Does hands-on obstetric US experience improve performance on the radiology oral board examination?
    Mary C Frates
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Radiology 239:529-32. 2006
    ..To investigate whether the inclusion of hands-on obstetric ultrasonography (US) experience as a formal part of radiology residency affects performance on the US section of the oral board examination...
  54. ncbi Clinical operations management in radiology
    Silvia Ondategui-Parra
    Radiology Management Group, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02120 1613, USA
    J Am Coll Radiol 1:632-40. 2004
    ..A reference framework for the radiology processes is described, distinguishing two phases in the initial assessment of a unit: the diagnostic phase and the redesign phase...
  55. ncbi Comparison of accuracy and interreader agreement in side-by-side versus independent evaluations of MR imaging of the medial collateral ligament of the elbow
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Acad Radiol 9:520-5. 2002
    ..These findings have implications for the design of studies to optimize MR imaging protocols by using multiple pulse sequences and multiple readers...
  56. ncbi Does the phase of menstrual cycle affect MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery of uterine leiomyomas?
    Minna J So
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Eur J Radiol 59:203-7. 2006
    ..To determine whether the phase of menstrual cycle at the time of MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) treatment for uterine leiomyomas affects treatment outcome...
  57. ncbi Statistical validation based on parametric receiver operating characteristic analysis of continuous classification data
    Kelly H Zou
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 USA
    Acad Radiol 10:1359-68. 2003
    ..The validation metric area under the receiver operating characteristic curves may be generalized to evaluating the performances of several continuous classifiers related to imaging...
  58. ncbi Sophisticated diagnostic modalities
    Kelly H Zou
    Philos Transact A Math Phys Eng Sci 366:2251-2. 2008
  59. ncbi Quantitative evaluation of automated skull-stripping methods applied to contemporary and legacy images: effects of diagnosis, bias correction, and slice location
    Christine Fennema-Notestine
    Laboratory of Cognitive Imaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
    Hum Brain Mapp 27:99-113. 2006
    ..The results of this study may direct users towards a method appropriate to their T1-weighted datasets and improve the efficiency of processing for large, multisite neuroimaging studies...
  60. ncbi Sonographic features of benign thyroid nodules: interobserver reliability and overlap with malignancy
    Jeffrey R Wienke
    Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
    J Ultrasound Med 22:1027-31. 2003
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Sixty-nine percent of benign nodules had at least 1 finding reported previously as associated with malignancy. The interobserver reliability of the sonographic findings was good to very good for 3 of the 5 findings assessed...
  61. ncbi A modified CT severity index for evaluating acute pancreatitis: improved correlation with patient outcome
    Koenraad J Mortele
    Department of Radiology, Division of Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115
    AJR Am J Roentgenol 183:1261-5. 2004
    ....