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David F. Yankelevitz is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics within Medicine, with a strong emphasis on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the field of lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, with substantial work also covering radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging. Their research spans several specialized topics including:

  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies

Some of the recent papers associated with work in this domain include:

  • Lung Screening Benefits and Challenges: A Review of The Data and Outline for Implementation (2020), Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • ACR Lung-RADS v2022: Assessment Categories and Management Recommendations (2023), Journal of the American College of Radiology
  • Low-Dose CT Screening for Lung Cancer: Evidence from 2 Decades of Study (2020), Radiology Imaging Cancer
  • A 20-year Follow-up of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) (2023), Radiology
  • The Regimen of Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer (2020), Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Frequent collaborators in this research include:

  • Claudia I. Henschke
  • Rowena Yip
  • Anthony P. Reeves
  • Chenyu Zhang
  • Raja M. Flores

Publications often appear in notable venues such as:

  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Clinical Imaging
  • Circulation
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
  • Radiology

Their subfields of study include Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine with 124 publications, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging with 79 publications, Oncology with 25, Biomedical Engineering and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine each with 15 publications.

This body of work contributes to ongoing research and clinical practice primarily in the areas of lung cancer screening, imaging techniques, and diagnostic protocols, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement across oncology, radiology, and cardiovascular medicine.

Best Publications

  • Early Lung Cancer Action Project: overall design and findings from baseline screening

    Claudia I Henschke;Dorothy I McCauley;David F Yankelevitz;David P Naidich

  • The Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC) and Image Database Resource Initiative (IDRI): a completed reference database of lung nodules on CT scans.

    Samuel G. Armato;Geoffrey McLennan;Luc Bidaut;Michael F. McNitt-Gray

  • Survival of patients with stage I lung cancer detected on CT screening.

    Claudia I Henschke;David F Yankelevitz;Daniel M Libby

  • CT Screening for Lung Cancer: Frequency and Significance of Part-Solid and Nonsolid Nodules

    Claudia I Henschke;David F Yankelevitz;Rosna Mirtcheva;Georgeann McGuinness

  • Small Pulmonary Nodules: Volumetrically Determined Growth Rates Based on CT Evaluation

    David F. Yankelevitz;Anthony P. Reeves;William J. Kostis;Binsheng Zhao

  • Early lung cancer action project: initial findings on repeat screenings.

    Claudia I. Henschke;David P. Naidich;David F. Yankelevitz;Georgeann McGuinness

  • System and method for three-dimensional image rendering and analysis

    Anthony P. Reeves;William J. Kostis;Claudia Henschke;David Yankelevitz

  • 2016 SCCT/STR guidelines for coronary artery calcium scoring of noncontrast noncardiac chest CT scans: A report of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and Society of Thoracic Radiology.

    Harvey S. Hecht;Paul Cronin;Michael J. Blaha;Matthew J. Budoff

  • CT Screening for Lung Cancer: Suspiciousness of Nodules according to Size on Baseline Scans

    Claudia I. Henschke;David F. Yankelevitz;David P. Naidich;Dorothy I. McCauley

  • Lung image database consortium: developing a resource for the medical imaging research community.

    Samuel G. Armato;Geoffrey McLennan;Michael F. McNitt-Gray;Charles R. Meyer

  • Three-dimensional segmentation and growth-rate estimation of small pulmonary nodules in helical CT images

    W.J. Kostis;A.P. Reeves;D.F. Yankelevitz;C.I. Henschke

  • Ordinal Scoring of Coronary Artery Calcifications on Low-Dose CT Scans of the Chest is Predictive of Death from Cardiovascular Disease

    Joseph Shemesh;Claudia I Henschke;Dorith Shaham;Rowena Yip

  • Celecoxib, a Selective Cyclo-Oxygenase-2 Inhibitor, Enhances the Response to Preoperative Paclitaxel and Carboplatin in Early-Stage Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

    Nasser K. Altorki;R. S. Keresztes;J. L. Port;D. M. Libby

  • Deep Venous Thrombosis: Detection by Using Indirect CT Venography

    Matthew D. Cham;David F. Yankelevitz;Dorith Shaham;Ami A. Shah

  • Evolving Concepts in the Pathology and Computed Tomography Imaging of Lung Adenocarcinoma and Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma

    William D. Travis;Kavita Garg;Wilbur A. Franklin;Ignacio I. Wistuba

  • Small Pulmonary Nodules: Evaluation with Repeat CT—Preliminary Experience

    David F. Yankelevitz;Rajiv Gupta;Binsheng Zhao;Claudia I. Henschke

  • On measuring the change in size of pulmonary nodules

    A.P. Reeves;A.B. Chan;D.F. Yankelevitz;C.I. Henschke

  • Does 2-year stability imply that pulmonary nodules are benign?

    D F Yankelevitz;C I Henschke

  • Small Pulmonary Nodules: Reproducibility of Three-dimensional Volumetric Measurement and Estimation of Time to Follow-up CT

    William J. Kostis;David F. Yankelevitz;Anthony P. Reeves;Simina C. Fluture

  • Managing the Small Pulmonary Nodule Discovered by CT

    Daniel M. Libby;James P. Smith;Nasser K. Altorki;Mark W. Pasmantier

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia I. Henschke
Claudia I. Henschke Cornell University
Nasser K. Altorki
Nasser K. Altorki Cornell University
Ella A. Kazerooni
Ella A. Kazerooni University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James P. Smith
James P. Smith Princeton University
Heber MacMahon
Heber MacMahon University of Chicago
Harvey I. Pass
Harvey I. Pass New York University
Jagat Narula
Jagat Narula Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
William D. Travis
William D. Travis Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
David P. Naidich
David P. Naidich New York University
Eric A. Hoffman
Eric A. Hoffman University of Iowa

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