AnthonyE.SamirMDMPH

Abdominal Imaging, Ultrasound, Vascular & Interventional Radiology

Assistant Professor in Radiology, Associate Medical Director Ultrasound Imaging Services, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Office
55 Fruit Street
WHT270
Boston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-726-8354
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Education & Training

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolFellowship, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2004 - 2006
University of the WitwatersrandClass of 1996

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2008 - 2026
MA State Medical License 2006 - 2025
FL State Medical License 2007 - 2010
OH State Medical License 2007 - 2010
NY State Medical License 2007 - 2009
RI State Medical License 2007 - 2008
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology

Clinical Trials

Sonoelastography: Ultrasound Method to Measure Liver Fibrosis Start of enrollment: 2010 Feb 01
Completed
Not Applicable
A Pilot Trial of Sonoelastography for Planning Tumor-targeted Prostate Biopsy Start of enrollment: 2009 Dec 01
Terminated
Not Applicable
Beyond Confounders: Addressing Source of Measurement Variability and Error in Shear Wave Elastography Start of enrollment: 2017 Jun 29
Completed
Not Applicable

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Diagnostic Anatomic Imaging for Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Maximizing Strengths and Mitigating Weaknesses.
Luigi Asmundo, Zahra Najmi, Peter D Caravan, Ciprian Catana, Shadi Abdar Esfahani, Avinash R Kambadakone, Liran Domachevsky, Stephan Ursprung, Mina Hesami, Michael Bla...> ;Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 2024 Apr 24
Imaging of Neuroendocrine Neoplasms; Principles of Treatment Strategies. What Referring Clinicians Want to Know.
Luigi Asmundo, Valentina Ambrosini, Amirkasra Mojtahed, Stefano Fanti, Cristina Ferrone, Mina Hesami, Madeleine Sertic, Zahra Najmi, Felipe S Furtado, Ranjodh S Dhami,...> ;Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 2024 Apr 12
Acoustic diffraction-resistant adaptive profile technology (ADAPT) for elasticity imaging.
Yuyang Gu, Viksit Kumar, E G Sunethra K Dayavansha, Scott Schoen Jr, Ernest Feleppa, Rimon Tadross, Michael H Wang, Michael J Washburn, Kai Thomenius, Anthony E Samir> ;Science Advances. 2023 Nov 3
The Future Is Beyond Bright: The Evolving Role of Quantitative US for Fatty Liver Disease.
Arinc Ozturk, Viksit Kumar, Theodore T Pierce, Qian Li, Masoud Baikpour, Ivan Rosado-Mendez, Michael Wang, Peng Guo, Scott Schoen Jr, Yuyang Gu, Sunethra Dayavansha, J...> ;Radiology. 2023 Nov 1
8 citations
Diagnostic performance of circulating biomarkers for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
Arun J Sanyal, Sudha S Shankar, Katherine P Yates, James Bolognese, Erika Daly, Clayton A Dehn, Brent Neuschwander-Tetri, Kris Kowdley, Raj Vuppalanchi, Cynthia Behlin...> ;Nature Medicine. 2023 Oct 1
1 citations
HaTU-Net: Harmonic Attention Network for Automated Ovarian Ultrasound Quantification in Assisted Pregnancy.
Vivek Kumar Singh, Elham Yousef Kalafi, Eugene Cheah, Shuhang Wang, Jingchao Wang, Qian Li, Yonina C Eldar, Anthony E Samir, Viksit Kumar, Arinc Ozturk> ;Diagnostics. 2022 Dec 18
10 citations
Pulse-Echo Quantitative US Biomarkers for Liver Steatosis: Toward Technical Standardization.
David T Fetzer, Ivan M Rosado-Mendez, Michael Wang, Michelle L Robbin, Arinc Ozturk, Keith A Wear, Juvenal Ormachea, Timothy A Stiles, J Brian Fowlkes, Timothy J Hall,...> ;Radiology. 2022 Nov 1
Liver Fibrosis: Point-Ultrasound Elastography Is a Safe, Widely Available, Low-Cost, Noninvasive Biomarker of Liver Fibrosis That Is Suitable for Broad Community Use.
Theodore T Pierce, Anthony E Samir> ;AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2022 Sep 1
8 citations
Stacked dilated convolutions and asymmetric architecture for U-Net-based medical image segmentation.
Shuhang Wang, Vivek Kumar Singh, Eugene Cheah, Xiaohong Wang, Qian Li, Shinn-Huey Chou, Constance D Lehman, Viksit Kumar, Anthony E Samir> ;Computers in Biology and Medicine. 2022 Sep 1
5 citations
Machine Learning-Assisted Diagnostic System for Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules.
Lei Chen, Minda Chen, Qian Li, Viksit Kumar, Yu Duan, Kevin A Wu, Theodore T Pierce, Anthony E Samir> ;Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. 2022 Aug 1
28 citations
Non-Invasive Biomarkers of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: the FNIH NIMBLE project.
Arun J Sanyal, Sudha S Shankar, Roberto A Calle, Anthony E Samir, Claude B Sirlin, Sarah P Sherlock, Rohit Loomba, Kathryn J Fowler, Clayton A Dehn, Helen Heymann, Tan...> ;Nature Medicine. 2022 Mar 1
13 citations
AI-Enabled, Ultrasound-Guided Handheld Robotic Device for Femoral Vascular Access.
Laura J Brattain, Theodore T Pierce, Lars A Gjesteby, Matthew R Johnson, Nancy D DeLosa, Joshua S Werblin, Jay F Gupta, Xiaohong Wang, Qian Li, Brian A Telfer, Anthony...> ;Biosensors. 2021 Dec 18
25 citations
Liver fibrosis assessment: MR and US elastography.
Michael C. Olson, Anthony E. Samir, Sudhakar K. Venkatesh, Arinc Ozturk> ;Abdominal Radiology. 2021 Oct 23
6 citations
Shear-Wave Elastography of the Breast: Impact of Technical Image Quality Parameters on Diagnostic Accuracy.
Shinn-Huey S. Chou, Masoud Baikpour, Wei Zhang, Sarah F Mercaldo, Constance D. Lehman, Anthony E. Samir> ;AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2021 Mar 17
Cervical Extension of the Normal Thymus in Children and Adolescents: Sonographic Features and Prevalence.
Chunxia Xia, Shuang Chen, Masoud Baikpour, Theodore T. Pierce, Yu Duan, Qian Li, Lei Chen, Eugene Cheah, Anthony E. Samir> ;Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. 2021 Jan 25
21 citations
Radiological Society of North America/Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance Shear Wave Speed Bias Quantification in Elastic and Viscoelastic Phantoms.
Mark L. Palmeri, Andy Milkowski, Richard G. Barr, Paul L. Carson, Mathieu Couade, Jun Chen, Shigao Chen, Manish Dhyani, Richard L. Ehman, Brian S. Garra, Gee Albert, G...> ;Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. 2021 Jan 7
Reply to “Biomarkers for High-Risk Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Beyond Portal Venous Pulsatility Index”
Masoud Baikpour, Manish Dhyani, Nathaniel D. Mercaldo, Theodore T. Pierce, Joseph R. Grajo, Anthony E. Samir, Arinc Ozturk> ;AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2021 Jan 1
3 citations
Variation of Shear Wave Elastography With Preload in the Thyroid: Quantitative Validation.
Rebecca E. Zubajlo, Manish Dhyani, Joseph R. Grajo, Nathaniel D. Mercaldo, Brian W. Anthony, Anthony E. Samir, Arinc Ozturk> ;Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. 2021 Apr 1
Magnetic resonance imaging/transrectal ultrasonography fusion guided seed placement in a phantom: Accuracy between 2-seed versus 1-seed strategies.
Qian Li, Yu Duan, Masoud Baikpour, Theodore T. Pierce, Colin J. McCarthy, Ashraf Thabet, Suk-Tak Chan, Anthony E. Samir> ;European Journal of Radiology. 2020 Aug 1
6 citations
Image Processing Pipeline for Liver Fibrosis Classification Using Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography.
Laura J. Brattain, Brian A. Telfer, Manish Dhyani, Joseph R. Grajo, Anthony E. Samir, Arinc Ozturk> ;Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. 2020 Jul 2
212 citations
Abdominal Imaging Findings in COVID-19: Preliminary Observations.
Rajesh Bhayana, Avik Som, Matthew D. Li, Denston Carey, Mark Anderson, Michael A. Blake, Onofrio A. Catalano, Michael S. Gee, Peter F. Hahn, Mukesh G. Harisinghani, Ao...> ;Radiology. 2020 May 11
7 citations
Renal Volume Estimation Using Freehand Ultrasound Scans: An Ex Vivo Demonstration.
Alex Benjamin, Melinda Chen, Qian Li, Lei Chen, Yi Dong, Carolina Amador Carrascal, Hua Xie, Anthony E. Samir, Brian W. Anthony> ;Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. 2020 May 4
8 citations
Differentiation of regenerative nodule, dysplastic nodule, and small hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic patients: a contrast-enhanced ultrasound-based multivariable...
Yu Duan, Xiaoyan Xie, Qian Li, Nathaniel D. Mercaldo, Anthony E. Samir, Ming Kuang, Manxia Lin> ;European Radiology. 2020 Apr 19
8 citations
Diagnostic Accuracy of Shear Wave Elastography as a Non-invasive Biomarker of High-Risk Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis in Patients with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
Ramin Mohammadi, Theodore T. Pierce, Sagar Kamarthi, Manish Dhyani, Joseph R. Grajo, Kathleen E. Corey, Raymond T. Chung, Atul K. Bhan, Jagpreet Chhatwal, Anthony E. S...> ;Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. 2020 Apr 1
12 citations
[18F]-Alfatide PET imaging of integrin αvβ3 for the non-invasive quantification of liver fibrosis.
Tuo Shao, Zhen Chen, Vasily Belov, Xiaohong Wang, Steve Rwema, Viksit Kumar, Hualong Fu, Xiaoyun Deng, Jian Rong, Qingzhen Yu, Lixin Lang, Wenyu Lin, Lee Josephson, An...> ;Journal of Hepatology. 2020 Jul 1
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