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  1. Article ; Online: On Quality Metrics and Quantitative Imaging.

    Abramson, Richard G

    Radiology

    2018  Volume 287, Issue 2, Page(s) 367–372

    MeSH term(s) Algorithms ; Benchmarking ; Delivery of Health Care/standards ; Humans ; Quality Assurance, Health Care/standards ; Radiographic Image Enhancement ; Radiology/standards ; Reimbursement Mechanisms
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Validation Studies
    ZDB-ID 80324-8
    ISSN 1527-1315 ; 0033-8419
    ISSN (online) 1527-1315
    ISSN 0033-8419
    DOI 10.1148/radiol.2017171766
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  2. Article ; Online: Creating Value through Incremental Innovation: Managing Culture, Structure, and Process.

    Rubin, Geoffrey D / Abramson, Richard G

    Radiology

    2018  Volume 288, Issue 2, Page(s) 330–340

    Abstract: While the looming threat of large-scale disruptive innovation consumes disproportionate attention, incremental innovation remains an important tool for preserving and growing radiology practices within a dynamic marketplace. Incremental innovation, ... ...

    Abstract While the looming threat of large-scale disruptive innovation consumes disproportionate attention, incremental innovation remains an important tool for preserving and growing radiology practices within a dynamic marketplace. Incremental innovation, defined as the process of making improvements or additions to an organization while maintaining the organization's core product or service model, is accessible to practices of all sizes and must not be overlooked if practices are to maintain their competitive advantage. This article explores cultural, structural, and process enablers for incremental innovation. Successful innovation cultures foster the ability to import and exploit external knowledge (adaptive capacity), encourage creative thought from all levels of the organization, display sensitivity toward the competency-destroying potential of certain changes, cultivate a positive perceptual bias toward organizational threats, and build tolerance for risk and uncertainty when prototyping new ideas. Structural elements promoting incremental innovation include dedicated resources for innovation planning, flexible and organic team structures, strong centralized governance models, robust communication systems, and organizational incentives encouraging exploration of new concepts. Processes important to innovation include periodic environmental scanning, strategic and scenario planning, use of an objectively gated system for testing and filtering new ideas, and use of an approach to implementation that emphasizes empowerment of project managers, removal of barriers, and proactive communication around change.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Organizational Culture ; Organizational Innovation ; Planning Techniques ; Radiology/organization & administration
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-07-03
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 80324-8
    ISSN 1527-1315 ; 0033-8419
    ISSN (online) 1527-1315
    ISSN 0033-8419
    DOI 10.1148/radiol.2018171239
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  3. Article ; Online: COPD in Never-Smokers: BOLD Australia Study.

    Ivey, Marsha A / Smith, Sheree M / Benke, Geza / Toelle, Brett G / Hunter, Michael L / James, Alan L / Maguire, Graeme P / Wood-Baker, Richard / Johns, David P / Marks, Guy B / Abramson, Michael J

    International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    2024  Volume 19, Page(s) 161–174

    Abstract: Purpose: Tobacco smoking is the major risk factor for COPD, and it is common for other risk factors in never-smokers to be overlooked. We examined the prevalence of COPD among never-smokers in Australia and identified associated risk factors.: Methods! ...

    Abstract Purpose: Tobacco smoking is the major risk factor for COPD, and it is common for other risk factors in never-smokers to be overlooked. We examined the prevalence of COPD among never-smokers in Australia and identified associated risk factors.
    Methods: We used data from the Australia Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) study, a cross-section of people aged ≥40 years from six sites. Participants completed interviews and post-bronchodilator spirometry. COPD was primarily defined as an FEV
    Results: The prevalence of COPD in the 1656 never-smokers who completed the study was 10.5% (95% CI: 9.1-12.1%) [ratio<LLN 4.6%]. The likelihood of having COPD increased with advancing age [odds ratio (OR) 4.11 in those 60-69 years and OR 8.73 in those 70 years and older], having attained up to 12 years of education (OR 1.75) compared to those with more than 12 years, having a history of asthma (OR 2.30), childhood hospitalization due to breathing problems before age 10 years (OR 2.50), or having a family history of respiratory diseases (OR 2.70). Being overweight or obese was associated with reduced prevalence of COPD compared with being normal weight. In males and females, advanced age, a history of asthma, and childhood breathing problems before age 10 were factors that elevated the likelihood of COPD. However, in males, additional factors such as a higher body mass index and a family history of respiratory diseases also contributed to increased odds of COPD.<br />Conclusion: COPD was prevalent in this population of never-smokers aged 40 years and over. This finding highlights the significance of risk factors other than smoking in the development of COPD.
    MeSH term(s) Female ; Male ; Humans ; Adult ; Middle Aged ; Child ; Smokers ; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/diagnosis ; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/epidemiology ; Asthma ; Odds Ratio ; Australia/epidemiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-17
    Publishing country New Zealand
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2212419-6
    ISSN 1178-2005 ; 1176-9106
    ISSN (online) 1178-2005
    ISSN 1176-9106
    DOI 10.2147/COPD.S439307
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  4. Article ; Online: Variability in radiology practice in the United States: a former teleradiologist's perspective.

    Abramson, Richard G

    Radiology

    2012  Volume 263, Issue 2, Page(s) 318–322

    MeSH term(s) Diagnostic Imaging/standards ; Diagnostic Imaging/statistics & numerical data ; Diagnostic Imaging/trends ; Electronic Health Records ; Emergency Service, Hospital/standards ; Emergency Service, Hospital/statistics & numerical data ; Forecasting ; Health Policy ; Health Services Research ; Humans ; Practice Guidelines as Topic ; Practice Patterns, Physicians'/statistics & numerical data ; Practice Patterns, Physicians'/trends ; Public Health ; Teleradiology/statistics & numerical data ; Teleradiology/trends ; United States
    Language English
    Publishing date 2012-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 80324-8
    ISSN 1527-1315 ; 0033-8419
    ISSN (online) 1527-1315
    ISSN 0033-8419
    DOI 10.1148/radiol.12112066
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  5. Article ; Online: Corrigendum to "Acceleration of spleen segmentation with end-to-end deep learning method and automated pipeline" [Comput. Biol. Med. 107 (2019) 109-117].

    Moon, Hyeonsoo / Huo, Yuankai / Abramson, Richard G / Peters, Richard Alan / Assad, Albert / Moyo, Tamara K / Savona, Michael R / Landman, Bennett A

    Computers in biology and medicine

    2021  Volume 140, Page(s) 103684

    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-12-04
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Published Erratum
    ZDB-ID 127557-4
    ISSN 1879-0534 ; 0010-4825
    ISSN (online) 1879-0534
    ISSN 0010-4825
    DOI 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2020.103684
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  6. Article: RAP-NET: COARSE-TO-FINE MULTI-ORGAN SEGMENTATION WITH SINGLE RANDOM ANATOMICAL PRIOR.

    Lee, Ho Hin / Tang, Yucheng / Bao, Shunxing / Abramson, Richard G / Huo, Yuankai / Landman, Bennett A

    Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

    2021  Volume 2021, Page(s) 1491–1494

    Abstract: Performing coarse-to-fine abdominal multi-organ segmentation facilitates extraction of high-resolution segmentation minimizing the loss of spatial contextual information. However, current coarse-to-refine approaches require a significant number of models ...

    Abstract Performing coarse-to-fine abdominal multi-organ segmentation facilitates extraction of high-resolution segmentation minimizing the loss of spatial contextual information. However, current coarse-to-refine approaches require a significant number of models to perform single organ segmentation. We propose a coarse-to-fine pipeline RAP-Net, which starts from the extraction of the global prior context of multiple organs from 3D volumes using a low-resolution coarse network, followed by a fine phase that uses a single refined model to segment all abdominal organs instead of multiple organ corresponding models. We combine the anatomical prior with corresponding extracted patches to preserve the anatomical locations and boundary information for performing high-resolution segmentation across all organs in a single model. To train and evaluate our method, a clinical research cohort consisting of 100 patient volumes with 13 organs well-annotated is used. We tested our algorithms with 4-fold cross-validation and computed the Dice score for evaluating the segmentation performance of the 13 organs. Our proposed method using single auto-context outperforms the state-of-the-art on 13 models with an average Dice score 84.58% versus 81.69% (p<0.0001).
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-05-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1945-7928
    ISSN 1945-7928
    DOI 10.1109/ISBI48211.2021.9433975
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  7. Article ; Online: Hepatobiliary imaging.

    Liu, Peter S / Abramson, Richard G

    Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America

    2014  Volume 22, Issue 3, Page(s) xv–xvi

    MeSH term(s) Biliary Tract/anatomy & histology ; Biliary Tract/pathology ; Humans ; Liver/anatomy & histology ; Liver/pathology ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-08
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Editorial ; Introductory Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1196851-5
    ISSN 1557-9786 ; 1064-9689
    ISSN (online) 1557-9786
    ISSN 1064-9689
    DOI 10.1016/j.mric.2014.05.003
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  8. Article ; Online: Respiratory Symptoms, Disease Burden, and Quality of Life in Australian Adults According to GOLD Spirometry Grades: Data from the BOLD Australia Study.

    Zhou, Yijun / Ampon, Maria R / Abramson, Michael J / James, Alan L / Maguire, Graeme P / Wood-Baker, Richard / Johns, David P / Marks, Guy B / Reddel, Helen K / Toelle, Brett G

    International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    2023  Volume 18, Page(s) 2839–2847

    Abstract: Purpose: Population data on the burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are often based on patient-reported diagnoses of COPD, emphysema or chronic bronchitis, without spirometry. We aimed to investigate the relationship between health ... ...

    Abstract Purpose: Population data on the burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are often based on patient-reported diagnoses of COPD, emphysema or chronic bronchitis, without spirometry. We aimed to investigate the relationship between health burden, quality of life and severity of airway obstruction in Australian adults aged ≥40 years.
    Methods: We used data from the BOLD Australia study, which included randomly selected adults aged ≥40 years from six study sites to reflect the sociodemographic and geographic diversity of the Australian population (n = 3522). Participants with post-bronchodilator airflow limitation (ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second FEV
    Results: Of the study sample, 2969 participants did not have airflow limitation, 294 (8.4%) were classified as GOLD Grade 1, 212 (6.0%) as GOLD 2 and 43 (1.2%) as GOLD 3-4. Participants with higher GOLD grades had more respiratory symptoms, more comorbidities and greater burden than those with lower GOLD grades. The scores of mental and physical subscales of SF-12 were lower, indicating worse quality of life, from the no airflow limitation group to the GOLD 3-4 group (P = 0.03 and P < 0.001, respectively).
    Conclusion: Greater airflow limitation is associated with greater burden and poor quality of life. Interventions to prevent, or reduce the level of, airflow limitation will reduce the symptom burden and improve quality of life for patients.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Adult ; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/diagnosis ; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/epidemiology ; Quality of Life ; Australia/epidemiology ; Spirometry ; Vital Capacity ; Forced Expiratory Volume ; Cost of Illness
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-30
    Publishing country New Zealand
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2212419-6
    ISSN 1178-2005 ; 1176-9106
    ISSN (online) 1178-2005
    ISSN 1176-9106
    DOI 10.2147/COPD.S425202
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  9. Article ; Online: Risk factors and clinical characteristics of breathlessness in Australian adults: Data from the BOLD Australia study.

    Zhou, Yijun / Ampon, Maria R / Abramson, Michael J / James, Alan L / Maguire, Graeme P / Wood-Baker, Richard / Johns, David P / Marks, Guy B / Reddel, Helen K / Toelle, Brett G

    Chronic respiratory disease

    2023  Volume 20, Page(s) 14799731231221820

    Abstract: Background: Breathlessness is a common symptom related to a significant health burden. However, the association of breathlessness with clinical characteristics, especially objective pulmonary test results is scarce. We aimed to identify the ... ...

    Abstract Background: Breathlessness is a common symptom related to a significant health burden. However, the association of breathlessness with clinical characteristics, especially objective pulmonary test results is scarce. We aimed to identify the characteristics independently associated with breathlessness in Australian adults.
    Method: The analysis used data from BOLD Australia, a cross-sectional study that included randomly selected adults aged ≥40 years from six sites in Australia. Clinical characteristics and spirometry results were compared for breathlessness (modified Medical Research Council [mMRC] grade ≥2).
    Results: Among all respondents (
    Conclusions: Breathlessness is common among Australian adults and is independently associated with obesity, chronic respiratory diseases, heart diseases, being Indigenous Australians, and impaired spirometry. Multi-disciplinary assessment and comprehensive investigation is needed in clinical practice to address the many factors associated with breathlessness in the population.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Humans ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Australia/epidemiology ; Dyspnea/epidemiology ; Risk Factors ; Obesity/complications ; Obesity/epidemiology ; Heart Diseases/complications ; Heart Diseases/epidemiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-21
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2211488-9
    ISSN 1479-9731 ; 1479-9723
    ISSN (online) 1479-9731
    ISSN 1479-9723
    DOI 10.1177/14799731231221820
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  10. Article: Clinical characteristics of adults with self-reported diagnosed asthma and/or COPD: data from the BOLD Australia Study.

    Zhou, Yijun / Ampon, Maria R / Abramson, Michael J / James, Alan L / Maguire, Graeme P / Wood-Baker, Richard / Johns, David P / Marks, Guy B / Reddel, Helen K / Toelle, Brett G

    ERJ open research

    2023  Volume 9, Issue 4

    Abstract: Background: Diagnosis of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the community is variable, often without spirometry. Some studies report that adults with both diagnostic labels (asthma+COPD) have worse health outcomes than those with ...

    Abstract Background: Diagnosis of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the community is variable, often without spirometry. Some studies report that adults with both diagnostic labels (asthma+COPD) have worse health outcomes than those with asthma or COPD only, but data for Australian adults are limited. We investigated the relationship between clinical characteristics and self-reported diagnoses of asthma, COPD and both.
    Method: We used data from the BOLD Australia study, which included randomly selected adults aged ≥40 years from six study sites. The BOLD questionnaires and spirometry test were used in all sites. Participants were grouped by self-reported diagnosis. Demographic and clinical characteristics and lung function were compared between groups.
    Results: Of the study sample (n=3522), 336 reported asthma only, 172 reported COPD only, 77 reported asthma+COPD and 2937 reported neither. Fewer than half of participants with a COPD diagnosis (with or without asthma) had airflow limitation. Participants with asthma+COPD had more respiratory symptoms and greater airflow limitation than those with either diagnosis alone. Having asthma+COPD was independently associated with a higher probability of having clinically important breathlessness (modified Medical Research Council score ≥2) than asthma only (adjusted OR 3.44, 95% CI 1.86-6.33) or COPD only (adjusted OR 3.28, 95% CI 1.69-6.39). Airflow limitation (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2 or higher, using post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 s/forced vital capacity ratio <0.7) was similar between asthma only and COPD only, but twice as prevalent in asthma+COPD (adjusted OR 2.18 and 2.58, respectively).
    Conclusions: Adults with diagnoses of asthma+COPD have a higher symptom and disease burden than those with diagnoses of asthma only or COPD only. These patients should receive regular comprehensive reviews because of the substantially increased burden of having both diagnoses.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-21
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2827830-6
    ISSN 2312-0541
    ISSN 2312-0541
    DOI 10.1183/23120541.00098-2023
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