Paras C. Lakhani, MD

132 S. 10th Street
Suite 796C, Main Building
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-5390
(215) 923-1562 fax

Medical School
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Residency
Diagnostic Radiology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Fellowship
Imaging Informatics,
University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
PET/CT and Nuclear Medicine,
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Board Certification
American Board of Radiology
American Board of Nuclear Medicine

University Appointment
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Hospital Appointment
Active Medical Staff (2011)

Research and Clinical Interests
Imaging Informatics
Oncologic Imaging
Nuclear Medicine and PET-CT

Publications

Most Recent Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Automated extraction of critical test values and communications from unstructured radiology reports: An analysis of 9.3 million reports from 1990 to 2011
2. Extracting templates from radiology reports using sequence alignment
3. Radiology Reporting and Communications. A Look Forward
4. Automated detection of critical results in radiology reports
5. Computer input devices: Neutral party or source of significant error in manual lesion segmentation?
6. Automated detection of radiology reports that document non-routine communication of critical or significant results
7. Documentation of nonroutine communications of critical or significant radiology results: A multiyear experience at a tertiary hospital
8. Asymmetric spermatic cord vessel enhancement and enlargement on contrast-enhanced MDCT as indicators of ipsilateral scrotal pathology
9. Is android or iphone the platform for innovation in imaging informatics
10. Extracting templates from radiology reports using sequence alignment
11. Letter to the editor Re: Voice recognition dictation: Radiologist as transcriptionist and improvement of report workflow and productivity using speech recognition-a follow-up study
12. Correlation between quantified breast densities from digital mammography and 18F-FDG PET uptake
13. Age-Related Structural and Functional Changes in the Breast: Multimodality Correlation With Digital Mammography, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Positron Emission Tomography
14. Detection of endoleaks after endovascular aneurysm repair with use of technetium-99m sulfur colloid and 99mTc-labeled red blood cell scans
15. Colorectal cancer: Screening double-contrast barium enema examination in average-risk adults older than 50 years
16. Development and validation of queries using structured query language (SQL) to determine the utilization of comparison imaging in radiology reports stored on PACS
17. 2-deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro-D-glucose-positron emission tomography in characterization of solid renal masses
18. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the pharynx.
19. Fluorodeoxyglucose-PET in characterizing solitary pulmonary nodules, assessing pleural diseases, and the initial staging, restaging, therapy planning, and monitoring response of lung cancer
20. PET: A revolution in medical imaging

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