Radiology recently accepted two publications from BIRT Postdoctoral Fellow Ichiro Ikuta.

The first paper (for which Ichiro is first author) is entitled "Exposing Exposure: Enhancing Patient Safety through Automated Data Mining of Nuclear Medicine Reports for Quality Assurance and Organ Dose Monitoring."  This first paper details the findings presented at RSNA 2011, a conference Ichiro attended in November and December of 2011.

The second paper (for which Ichiro is fourth co-author) is entitled "Exposing Exposure: Enhancing Patient Safety Initiatives through Automated Anatomy-Specific CT Radiation Exposure Extraction."  This paper explores the development of a data extraction informatics toolkit for computed tomography (CT).  The hope is that by obtaining patient-specific information, his group can calculate patient-specific radiation dose estimates. Click here for website for this toolkit, which is freely available.