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Adam Turner, Eva van Rikxoort, Dr. Kim Grace and Dr Fereidoun Abtin all gave talks at RSNA this year. Adam discussed a method to estimate organ doses from mutidetector CT abdominal exams from patient sized corrected CT dose index (CTDI) values. Eva sparked discussion with her talk about automatic segmentation of incomplete and complete fissures of chest CT scan. Dr. Grace Kim gave a stimulating talk about quantitative fibrosis scoring for comparing cyclophosphamide treatment versus placeboes in scleroderma lung studies. A very interesting talk on CT-guided percutaneous cryoblation of mesotheliomas and other chest wall tumors was given by Dr Fereidoun Abtin.

Eva van Rikxoort, delivers presentation “Automatic Segmentation of the Pulmonary Lobes from Fissures, Airways, and Lung Borders: Evaluation of Robustness Against Missing Data” at MICCAI 2009 in London

Dr. Grace Kim, MedQIA’s lead biostatistician, delivers the sunrise seminar “Quantitative Lung Fibrosis as Biomarker in Treatment Efficacy in Scleroderma” at ATS 2009 conference in San Diego, CA.

MedQIA is proud to announce the publication of a fibrosis scoring algorithm in Academic Radiology:  Kim HJ, Li G, Gjertson DW, Elashoff R, Shah SK, Ochs R, Vasunilashorn F, Abtin F, Brown MS, Goldin J. Classification of parenchymal abnormality in scleroderma lung using a novel approach to denoise images collected via a multicenter study. Acad Radiol 2008;15:1004-1016.

A MedQIA-UCLA study led by Dr. Whitney Pope that uncovered a new way to predict which brain tumors would respond to Avastin before patients start the drug, was reported July 30 by HealthDay News and the Doctors Guide. The story also ran on the websites for U.S. News & World Report, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Austin American-Statesman, Health Scout, WFIE-TV (Ill.) KTVN-TV (Nev.) Lex 18-TV (Ky.) and WMBF-TV (Fla.), among others. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_drYduUyM to view the YouTube video reported by KCAL9 news in July 31, 2009.