PUBLICATIONS
Decades of experience in imaging science (selected publications)
CVIT scientists regularly publish findings and frequently present at scientific conferences.
Featured Publications
Dahal L, Ghojoghnejad M, Vancoillie L, Ghosh D, Bhandari Y, Kim D, Ho FC, Tushar FI, Luo S, Lafata KJ, Abadi E, Samei E, Lo JY, Segars WP.
XCAT 3.0: A comprehensive library of personalized digital twins derived from CT scans.
Medical Image Analysis. 2025;103:103636. Epub 2025/05/03. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2025.103636Samei E.
The future of in silico trials and digital twins in medicine.
PNAS Nexus.2025;4(5):pgaf123 Epub 2025/04/18. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf123Wang AJ, Tushar FI, Harowicz MR, Tong BC, Lafata KJ, Tailor TD, Lo JY.
Duke Lung Cancer Screening (DLCS) Dataset: A Reference Dataset of Annotated Low-dose Screening Thoracic CT.
Radiology Artificial Intelligence.2025;e240248 Epub 2025/04/16. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1148/ryai.240248Tushar FI, Vancoillie L, McCabe C, Kavuri A, Dahal L, Harrawood B, Fryling M, Zarei M, Sotoudeh-Paima S, et al.
Virtual lung screening trial (VLST): An in silico study inspired by the national lung screening trial for lung cancer detection.
Medical Image Analysis.2025;103:103576 Epub 2025/04/05. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2025.103576
Sugiura T, Tanaka R, Segars WP, Abadi E, Samei E.
Correlation of respiratory changes in lung density on dynamic chest radiographs with changes in the CT value: a computational phantom study.
SPIE Medical Imaging. .2021;11595. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2579973Abadi E, Jadick G, Hoffman E, Lynch D, Segars WP, Samei E.
COPD quantifications via CT imaging: ascertaining the effects of acquisition protocol using virtual imaging trial.
SPIE Medical Imaging. .2021;11595. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2581965Gann AM, Abadi E, Hoye J, Sauer T, Segars WP, Chalian H, Samei E.
An analysis of radiomics features in lung lesions in COVID-19.
SPIE Medical Imaging. .2021;11595. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2582296Tanaka R, Samei E, Segars WP, Abadi E, Matsumoto I, Tamura M, Takata M, Yamashiro T.
Assessment of pleural invasion and adhesion of lung tumors with dynamic chest radiography: A virtual clinical imaging study.
Med Phys. .2021;48(4):1616-23. Epub 2021/02/04. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.14750Fu W, Ria F, Segars WP, Choudhury KR, Wilson JM, Kapadia AJ, Samei E.
Patient-Informed Organ Dose Estimation in Clinical CT: Implementation and Effective Dose Assessment in 1048 Clinical Patients.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. .2021;216(3):824-34. Epub 2021/01/22. PMC8018383. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.2214/ajr.19.22482Samei E, Richards T, Segars WP, Daubert MA, Ivanov A, Rubin GD, Douglas PS, Hoffmann U.
Task-dependent estimability index to assess the quality of cardiac computed tomography angiography for quantifying coronary stenosis.
J Med Imaging (Bellingham). .2021;8(1):013501. Epub 2021/01/16. PMC7797007. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1117/1.Jmi.8.1.013501Sauer TJ, Samei E, Bejan A.
Cell and extracellular matrix growth theory and its implications for tumorigenesis.
Biosystems. .2021;201:104331. Epub 2020/12/29. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104331MacDonald LR, Lo JY, Sturgeon GM, Zeng C, Harrison RL, Kinahan PE, Segars WP.
Impact of Using Uniform Attenuation Coefficients for Heterogeneously Dense Breasts in a Dedicated Breast PET/X-ray Scanner.
IEEE Trans Radiat Plasma Med Sci. .2020;4(5):585-93. Epub 2020/11/10. PMC7643852. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1109/trpms.2020.2991120Solomon J, Ebner L, Christe A, Peters A, Munz J, Löbelenz L, Klaus J, Richards T, Samei E, Roos JE.
Minimum perceivable size difference: how well can radiologists visually detect a change in lung nodule size from CT images?
Eur Radiol. .2021;31(4):1947-55. Epub 2020/10/01. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-07326-2Hoye J, Solomon JB, Sauer TJ, Samei E.
Quantification of Minimum Detectable Difference in Radiomics Features Across Lesions and CT Imaging Conditions.
Acad Radiol. .2020. Epub 2020/08/24. PMC7895859. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2020.07.029Samei E, Kinahan P, Nishikawa RM, Maidment A.
Virtual Clinical Trials: Why and What (Special Section Guest Editorial).
J Med Imaging (Bellingham). .2020;7(4):042801. Epub 2020/07/28. PMC7364111. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1117/1.Jmi.7.4.042801Samei E, Ria F, Tian X, Segars PW.
A database of 40 patient-based computational models for benchmarking organ dose estimates in CT.
Med Phys. .2020;47(12):6562-6. Epub 2020/07/07. [Foundation]
https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.14373
