CEBI - Center for Evidence-Based Imaging

Research

Abdominal

• Incidence of Contrast-Mediated Nephropathy in the Low-Volume Contrast-Enhanced Multidetector-Row CT Era

Emergency Department

• Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) has received strong recommendations for its impacts on patient safety, physician ordering behavior, resource utilization, and other areas.
• Optimizing Clinical Information within the Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) systems; Does patient information affect diagnosis for commonly ordered radiology studies.
• Patient Predictors of Occult Hip Fracture: a 10-year retrospective review.

Quality

• CCTR: Communication of Critical Test Results
• ANCR: Automated Notification of Critical Results
• Quality Analytics - Tools for monitoring and improving adherence to evidence-based guidelines and workflow processes
• Monitoring radiation exposure from medical imaging

Administration

• Paper-based radiology systems in AMC

Informatics

• Abdominal Post-Processing Tools
• Enterprise Image Portal
• Digital Radiography Display Image Processing
• Web Portal for Protocoling Imaging Examinations
• Human-Machine Interface GUI Design
• Image Display Technologies
• Image Archival Strategies
• Research Data Warehouse
• Technology Impact and Utilization Studies
• Imaging Decision Support for Low Back Pain
• Imaging for Hepatitis
• Head CT Studies in the ED - Analysis of practice variation
• Decision Support for Avoiding Duplicate Imaging Tests
• Radiation Dose Estimation and Decision Support

Musculoskeletal / Trauma

• Derivation a prediction model to discriminate benign from malignant vertebral compression fractures using MRI feature analysis.
• "Cost Analysis of imaging associated with Osteoporosis-related Vertebral Compression Fractures."
• Multidetector CT Efficacy for Occult Injuries of the Axial Skeleton.

Physical Therapy

• Prediction of Rotator Cuff Repair Outcomes based on Tissue Quality.
• PACS and their potential Impact on Physical Therapy clinical decision-making.

Neurology

• Managing Radiology Leakage in the AMC; Causes and Management Solutions.