Georges El Fakhri, PhD, DABR
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Therapeutic Radiology and of Biomedical Informatics & Data ScienceCards
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2025
Artificial intelligence-assisted detection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma on endoscopic images: a national, multicentre, model development and validation study
Shi Y, Li Z, Wang L, Wang H, Liu X, Gu D, Chen X, Liu X, Gong W, Jiang X, Li W, Lin Y, Liu K, Luo D, Peng T, Peng X, Tong M, Zheng H, Zhou X, Wu J, El Fakhri G, Chang M, Liao J, Li J, Wang D, Ye J, Qu S, Jiang W, Liu Q, Sun X, Zheng Y, Yu H. Artificial intelligence-assisted detection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma on endoscopic images: a national, multicentre, model development and validation study. The Lancet Digital Health 2025, 100869. PMID: 40544083, DOI: 10.1016/j.landig.2025.03.001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchArea under the curveNasopharyngeal carcinomaEndoscopic imagesReal-world environmentDeep learning algorithmsDeep learning systemBenign hyperplasiaNormal nasopharynxShanghai Municipal Key Clinical SpecialtyLearning algorithmsMalignant imagesSkull base tumorsDetection of nasopharyngeal carcinomaLearning systemAI modelsIncidence of nasopharyngeal carcinomaPrimary hospitalsDiagnostic capabilitiesNasopharyngeal carcinoma diagnosisDiagnostic challengeImaging manifestationsCarcinoma diagnosisCarcinomaDiagnostic accuracyEndoscopic examinationUltrafast J-resolved magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging for high-resolution metabolic brain imaging
Zhao Y, Li Y, Jin W, Guo R, Ma C, Tang W, Li Y, El Fakhri G, Liang Z. Ultrafast J-resolved magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging for high-resolution metabolic brain imaging. Nature Biomedical Engineering 2025, 1-13. PMID: 40542105, DOI: 10.1038/s41551-025-01418-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpectroscopic imagingLong data acquisition timesData acquisition timeJ-coupling informationMagnetic resonance spectroscopic imagingPhantom experimentsPoor spatial resolutionJ-couplingLabel-free metabolic imagingNon-invasive metabolic imagingSpatial resolutionAcquisition timeMetabolic imagingPhantomData acquisitionHuman brainPhysics-informed machine learningMetabolic brain imagingA Cross-Modality Transformer Network for MR-Guided Low-dose Tau PET Image Denoising
Jang S, Gomez C, Becker A, Thibault E, Price J, Johnson K, Fakhri G, Gong K. A Cross-Modality Transformer Network for MR-Guided Low-dose Tau PET Image Denoising. IEEE Transactions On Radiation And Plasma Medical Sciences 2025, PP: 1-1. DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2025.3581204.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchQuantitative Measurement of Tau Burden in a Dual-Time-Window Dynamic PET Imaging Protocol with [18F]MK6240.
Xia Y, Dhaynaut M, Chemli Y, Lois C, Hanseeuw B, Thibault E, Groot C, Ossenkoppele R, Johnson K, El Fakhri G, Normandin M, Guehl N. Quantitative Measurement of Tau Burden in a Dual-Time-Window Dynamic PET Imaging Protocol with [18F]MK6240. Journal Of Nuclear Medicine 2025, jnumed.125.270165. PMID: 40533354, DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.125.270165.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchModeling inter‐reader variability in clinical target volume delineation for soft tissue sarcomas using diffusion model
Dong Y, Marin T, Zhuo Y, Najem E, Beddok A, Rozenblum L, Moteabbed M, Grogg K, Xing F, Woo J, Chen Y, Lim R, Liu X, Ma C, Fakhri G. Modeling inter‐reader variability in clinical target volume delineation for soft tissue sarcomas using diffusion model. Medical Physics 2025 PMID: 40317577, DOI: 10.1002/mp.17865.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchClinical target volumeGross tumor volumeClinical target volume delineationSoft tissue sarcomasInter-reader variabilityTissue sarcomasClinical target volume contoursMagnetic resonance imagingCTV delineationTarget volume delineationComputed tomographyTreatment of soft tissue sarcomasFluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomographyCTV contoursTarget volumeVolume delineationT1-weighted magnetic resonance imagingRadiotherapy treatmentEnergy distanceHigh Dice indexPositron emission tomographyTumor volumeMicroscopic spreadFDG-PETTreatment planning3748 A large-animal pilot study of cardio-respiratory-gated radiation ablation for ventricular tachycardia targets using proton therapy
Jee K, Bijari F, Chemli Y, Chen Y, Deng H, Depauw N, Dhaynaut M, Garonna A, Kang J, Kim H, Macdonald-Soccorso M, Moon S, Normandin M, Woodcock R, Yaghoubian K, Levine R, Lehmann H, Fakhri G. 3748 A large-animal pilot study of cardio-respiratory-gated radiation ablation for ventricular tachycardia targets using proton therapy. Radiotherapy And Oncology 2025, 206: s3543-s3544. DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(25)01927-9.Peer-Reviewed Original Research273. Dopaminergic Frontostriatal Pathways in Major Depressive Disorder and Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Multimodal Neuroimaging Investigation
Dan R, Borchers L, Belleau E, Kaiser R, Clegg R, Goer F, Pechtel P, Beltzer M, Wooten D, Fakhri G, Normandin M, Pizzagalli D. 273. Dopaminergic Frontostriatal Pathways in Major Depressive Disorder and Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Multimodal Neuroimaging Investigation. Biological Psychiatry 2025, 97: s208. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.02.511.Peer-Reviewed Original Research1238 Machine Learning Prediction of Secondary Recurrence in Head and Neck Cancer after Reirradiation Using a Weighted Average Model on Pre-reRT PET Imaging
Colson B, Regnault P, Kraus V, Buvat I, Calugaru V, Crehange G, Fakhri G, Passat N, Beddok A. 1238 Machine Learning Prediction of Secondary Recurrence in Head and Neck Cancer after Reirradiation Using a Weighted Average Model on Pre-reRT PET Imaging. Radiotherapy And Oncology 2025, 206: s963-s965. DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(25)00349-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchElevated serum cortisol associated with early‐detected increase of brain amyloid deposition in Alzheimer's disease imaging biomarkers among menopausal women: The Framingham Heart Study
Salardini A, Himali J, Abdullah M, Chaudhari R, Young V, Zilli E, McGrath E, Gonzales M, Thibault E, Salinas J, Aparicio H, Himali D, Ghosh S, Buckley R, Satizabal C, Johnson K, DeCarli C, Fakhri G, Vasan R, Beiser A, Seshadri S. Elevated serum cortisol associated with early‐detected increase of brain amyloid deposition in Alzheimer's disease imaging biomarkers among menopausal women: The Framingham Heart Study. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025, 21: e70179. PMID: 40271551, PMCID: PMC12019305, DOI: 10.1002/alz.70179.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPost-menopausal womenFramingham Heart Study participantsIncreased risk of ADFramingham Heart StudyRisk of ADNo significant associationHeart StudyEarly risk factorsStudy participantsMenopausal statusMultivariate regression analysisApolipoprotein E4Significant associationAlzheimer's diseaseIncreased riskRisk factorsCognitive impairmentMenopausal womenBrain amyloid depositionRegression analysisWomenAnalyzed dataPositron emission tomographyIncreased amyloid depositionBurdenDual Prompting for Diverse Count-Level Pet Denoising
Liu X, Huang Y, Marin T, Chemli Y, Eslahi S, Tiss A, Johnson K, Fakhri G, Ouyang J. Dual Prompting for Diverse Count-Level Pet Denoising. 2025, 00: 1-5. DOI: 10.1109/isbi60581.2025.10980695.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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- June 16, 2025
Yale Announces New Biomedical Imaging Institute
- March 05, 2025
PET mapping of receptor occupancy using joint direct parametric reconstruction
- March 03, 2025
Trainee Zhen Li awarded at SPIE Medical Imaging 2025
- February 03, 2025Source: Magnetic Resonance in Imaging
Free‐breathing 3D cardiac extracellular volume (ECV) mapping using a linear tangent space alignment (LTSA) model
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Everyone Nancy J. Brown, MD - Georges El Fakhri, PhD, DABR - Marc David Normandin, PhD - Henk De Feyter, PhD - Pamela L. Kunz, MD - Carolyn Fredericks, MD - Nicha Dvornek, PhD - Thibault Marin, PhD - John Onofrey, PhD - Kelly Cosgrove, PhD - Albert Sinusas, MD - Jeffrey Brock, PhD - Peter M. Glazer, MD, PhD - Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD - Pooja Khatri - John Krystal, MD - Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, PhD - Christopher Whitlow, MD, PhD, MHA - Eric Winer, MD