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88
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664
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Ronald M. Summers is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has made significant contributions to medical imaging and artificial intelligence research. Their work spans various fields within medicine, with a notable focus on radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist has a strong presence in multiple subfields of study, including:

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Health Informatics

The main topics of their research cover diverse areas centered around medical imaging and AI applications:

  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
  • AI in cancer detection
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ronald M. Summers include:

  • Perry J. Pickhardt
  • Tejas Sudharshan Mathai
  • Pritam Mukherjee
  • John W. Garrett
  • Thomas C. Shen

The scientist's research has been published extensively in prominent venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Radiology
  • Abdominal Radiology
  • Radiology Artificial Intelligence
  • American Journal of Roentgenology

Representative recent papers include:

  • "The Medical Segmentation Decathlon" (2022), Nature Communications
  • "Preparing Medical Imaging Data for Machine Learning" (2020), Radiology
  • "Artificial intelligence for the detection of COVID-19 pneumonia on chest CT using multinational datasets" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "On the Interpretability of Artificial Intelligence in Radiology: Challenges and Opportunities" (2020), Radiology Artificial Intelligence
  • "Metrics reloaded: recommendations for image analysis validation" (2024), Nature Methods

In recognition of professional contributions, Ronald M. Summers was awarded the title of Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Detection: CNN Architectures, Dataset Characteristics and Transfer Learning

    Hoo-Chang Shin;Holger R. Roth;Mingchen Gao;Le Lu

  • ChestX-Ray8: Hospital-Scale Chest X-Ray Database and Benchmarks on Weakly-Supervised Classification and Localization of Common Thorax Diseases

    Xiaosong Wang;Yifan Peng;Le Lu;Zhiyong Lu

  • The future of digital health with federated learning

    Nicola Rieke;Nicola Rieke;Jonny Hancox;Wenqi Li;Fausto Milletari

  • Polyp Size Measurement at CT Colonography: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?

    Ronald M. Summers

  • A Review of Deep Learning in Medical Imaging: Imaging Traits, Technology Trends, Case Studies With Progress Highlights, and Future Promises

    S. Kevin Zhou;Hayit Greenspan;Christos Davatzikos;James S. Duncan

  • The Medical Segmentation Decathlon

    Michela Antonelli;Annika Reinke;Spyridon Bakas;Keyvan Farahani

  • Preparing Medical Imaging Data for Machine Learning.

    Martin J. Willemink;Wojciech A. Koszek;Cailin Hardell;Jie Wu

  • A large annotated medical image dataset for the development and evaluation of segmentation algorithms

    Amber L. Simpson;Michela Antonelli;Spyridon Bakas;Michel Bilello

  • DeepOrgan: Multi-level Deep Convolutional Networks for Automated Pancreas Segmentation

    Holger R. Roth;Le Lu;Amal Farag;Hoo-Chang Shin

  • Machine learning and radiology

    Shijun Wang;Ronald M. Summers

  • Deep learning in medical imaging and radiation therapy.

    Berkman Sahiner;Aria Pezeshk;Lubomir M. Hadjiiski;Xiaosong Wang

  • Improving Computer-Aided Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Random View Aggregation

    Holger R. Roth;Le Lu;Jiamin Liu;Jianhua Yao

  • DeepPap: Deep Convolutional Networks for Cervical Cell Classification.

    Ling Zhang;Le Lu;Isabella Nogues;Ronald M. Summers

  • Data augmentation using generative adversarial networks (CycleGAN) to improve generalizability in CT segmentation tasks.

    Veit Sandfort;Ke Yan;Perry J. Pickhardt;Ronald M. Summers

  • A new 2.5D representation for lymph node detection using random sets of deep convolutional neural network observations.

    Holger R. Roth;Le Lu;Ari Seff;Kevin M. Cherry

  • TieNet: Text-Image Embedding Network for Common Thorax Disease Classification and Reporting in Chest X-Rays

    Xiaosong Wang;Yifan Peng;Le Lu;Zhiyong Lu

  • Artificial intelligence for the detection of COVID-19 pneumonia on chest CT using multinational datasets.

    Stephanie A. Harmon;Thomas H. Sanford;Sheng Xu;Evrim B. Turkbey

  • DeepLesion: automated mining of large-scale lesion annotations and universal lesion detection with deep learning

    Ke Yan;Xiaosong Wang;Le Lu;Ronald M. Summers

  • On the Interpretability of Artificial Intelligence in Radiology: Challenges and Opportunities

    Mauricio Reyes;Raphael Meier;Sérgio Pereira;Carlos A Silva

  • Learning to Read Chest X-Rays: Recurrent Neural Cascade Model for Automated Image Annotation

    Hoo-Chang Shin;Kirk Roberts;Le Lu;Dina Demner-Fushman

  • Automated polyp detection at CT colonography: feasibility assessment in a human population.

    Ronald M. Summers;C. Daniel Johnson;Lynne M. Pusanik;James D. Malley

  • ChestX-ray: Hospital-Scale Chest X-ray Database and Benchmarks on Weakly Supervised Classification and Localization of Common Thorax Diseases.

    Xiaosong Wang;Yifan Peng;Le Lu;Zhiyong Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianhua Yao
Jianhua Yao Tencent (China)
Le Lu
Le Lu Alibaba Group (China)
Holger R. Roth
Holger R. Roth Nvidia (United States)
Nicholas Petrick
Nicholas Petrick US Food and Drug Administration
Zhiyong Lu
Zhiyong Lu National Institutes of Health
Jiang Li
Jiang Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ziyue Xu
Ziyue Xu Nvidia (United States)
Bram van Ginneken
Bram van Ginneken Radboud University
Xinjian Chen
Xinjian Chen Soochow University
Daniel Rueckert
Daniel Rueckert Technical University of Munich

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