Best SABI Authored Paper Published in JCAT in 2025 as Chosen by Associate EditorsTitle: Prostate Cancer Risk Prediction Model Using Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Related Findings: Impact of Combining Lesions’ Locations and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Values Authors: Hirotsugu Nakai, Hiroaki Takahashi, Jordan D. LeGout, Akira Kawashima, Adam T. Froemming, Jason R. Klug, Panagiotis Korfiatis, Derek J. Lomas, Mitchell R. Humphreys, Chandler Dora, Naoki Takahashi Published in Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 49(2):p 247-257, March/April 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0000000000001679 2026 Annual Meeting Research and Educational Poster AwardsNAMED RESEARCH AWARDS Foundation Award: Diagnostic Utility of a Novel CT Upper Gastrointestinal Protocol for the Detection of Proximal Gastroduodenal Leaks, Giuseppe V. Toia, MD, MS Hounsfield Award: Opportunistic CT Body Composition at Scale: 15-Year Tissue Quality Trends and Hidden Risk Missed by BMI, Benjamin Rush, PhD, MPH Lauterbur Award (presented by Bracco): Utilization of 0.55T MRI for Prostate Imaging in Patients with Hip Prostheses, Serdar Sagdic, MD Innovation Award: High-Throughput Liver Fat Quantification Using a Novel MRI Suite Design, Automated Prescription, and Free-Breathing Imaging, Garrett Fullerton Moncada Award (presented by Bracco): Surveillance Patterns and Malignancy Yield of Pancreatic Cystic Lesions in Young Adults, Timothy Liu Young Investigator Award: Deep Learning Quantified Thoracic Vertebral Bone Density on Chest CT and Subsequent Brain Aging and Cognitive Decline: A Longitudinal Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Analysis, Sara Momtazmanesh, MD
OUTSTANDING SCIENTIFIC AWARD (Workshop Oral Scientific Presentation) Jake Weeks, Nakagami Parametric Imaging As A Non-Invasive Biomarker For Steatosis Classification In Ex-vivo Liver Allografts On Normothermic Machine Perfusion Hannah Tonner, Changing Trends in the Recall Rate of Screening Ultrasound Screening Exams in Chronic Liver Disease: A Six-Years Retrospective Study Douglas Khalil, MD, Abdominal CT Imaging of Overweight and Obese Patients: Intra-Patient Comparison of Image Quality and Dose in Photon-Counting and Energy Integrating CT Three Pearls Oral Scientific Presentation Danielle Rigau, MD, Photon-Counting Detector CT (PCD-CT) for Intial Staging of Recal Cancer: A Visual Primer on Local T-Staging, Nodal Assessment, and Metastatic Workup Yashant Aswani, MBBS, MD, DNB, Imaging in Abdominal Mucormycosis Mindy Wang, MD, PET/MR in Gynecologic Malignancies |
UM LAUDE POSTER AWARDS Matthew Lee, A Novel Sex-Specific CT-Hip Fracture Risk Model Using Explainable Opportunistic CT Biomarkers for 10-year Hip Fracture Risk Ali Pirasteh, FAPI PET/MRI for Assessment of Liver Fibrosis: A Prospective Study Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, CT-Derived Radiogenomic Refinement of Genomic Risk for Prognostic Stratification in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Reve Chahine, Essentials of Transplant Liver Imaging: Practical Pearls and Pitfalls in a Multimodality Approach Anish Goel, Comparison of Iodinated Contrast Dose and Image Quality Between CT Pulmonary Angiograms​ Performed with Dual-Headed Syringe and Multi-Patient Iodinated Contrast Injectors ​ Gorkem Durak, AI-Powered Pancreatic Cancer Risk Prediction Using Multicenter MRI in Centralized and Federated Learning Unnathi Nayak, Imaging of the Axilla: A Multimodality Approach Dhanush Jayanna, Imaging Patterns in Abdominal Sarcoidosis George Han, Evaluation of the Clinical Eeffect and Safety of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Use During Hepatic Histotripsy in Human Patients John Garrett, An Explainable Sex-Specific CT Predictive Risk Imaging Score for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (CT-PRISM) for 10-year Cardiovascular Risk Using Opportunistic Abdominal CT Biomarkers Danielle Rigau, Rectal Cancer Response on Photon-Counting Detector CT (PCD-CT) After Initial Staging MRI: Understanding How PCDCT During Neoadjuvant Therapy Can Help and Understanding its Limitations Garrett Fullerton, Multicenter, Multivendor Development and Validation of Automated Liver MRI Prescription Gorkem Durak, Noninvasive Imaging Biomarkers of Cirrhosis Severity and Prognosis: Functional Liver Imaging Score and Liver Surface Nodularity Molly Pantelic, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in Motion: Ultrasound as a Dynamic Companion to Enterography Aria Salyapongse, Iodine Quantification Error due to Non-Water Backgrounds: A Phantom Study Anis Meribout, A Machine Learning Approach Integrating MRI Radiomics Can Predict the Risk of Malignancy in Indeterminate Liver Nodules in Chronic Liver Disease |