Penn Institute for Immunology
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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Drew A Torigian

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Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Radiology

Contact information
Department of Radiology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-615-3805
Fax: 215-614-0033
Education:
BA (Mathematics)
Johns Hopkins University, 1991.
BA (Chemistry)
Johns Hopkins University, 1991.
MA (Mathematics)
Johns Hopkins University, 1991.
MD (Medicine)
New York University School of Medicine, 1996.
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Description of Research Expertise

oncologic imaging (lung cancer, melanoma, lymphoma, GI, GU, and gyn cancers)
inflammation imaging
aging imaging
translational research imaging
thoracoabdominopelvic imaging
CT imaging
MR imaging
PET, PET/CT, and PET/MR imaging
functional and molecular imaging
quantitative imaging/image analysis
all types of imaging response assessment on CT, MRI, and PET

Description of Clinical Expertise

thoracic imaging (plain film radiography, CT, MRI, PET, and PET/CT)
body CT imaging
body MR imaging
PET and PET/CT imaging
oncologic imaging
vascular imaging (CT and MR)

Selected Publications

Talwar AA, Desai AA, McAuliffe PB, Broach RB, Hsu JY, Liu T, Udupa JK, Tong Y, Torigian DA, Fischer JP.: Optimal Computed Tomography-Based Biomarkers for Prediction of Incisional Hernia Formation. Hernia 28(1): 17-24, Feb 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s10029-023-02835-7.

Song I, Thompson EW, Verma A, MacLean MT, Duda J, Elahi A, Tran R, Raghupathy P, Swago S, Hazim M, Bhattaru A, Schneider C, Vujkovic M, Torigian DA, Kahn CE, Gee JC, Borthakur A, Kripke CM, Carson CC, Carr R, Jehangir Q, Ko Y-A, Litt H, Rosen M, Mankoff DA, Schnall MD, Shou H, Chirinos J, Damrauer SM, Serper M, Chen J, Rader DJ, Penn Medicine BioBank, Witschey WRT, Sagreiya H. : Clinical correlates of CT imaging-derived phenotypes among lean and overweight patients with hepatic steatosis. Sci Rep 14(1:53): 1-14, Jan 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-49470-x.

Dai J, Liu T, Torigian DA, Tong Y, Han S, Nie P, Zhang J, Li R, Xie F, Udupa JK.: GA-Net: A geographical attenuation neural network for the segmentation of body torso tissue composition. Med Image Anal 91(102987): 1-22, Jan 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.media.2023.102987.

Shahait M, Usamentiaga R, Tong Y, Sandberg A, Lee DI, Udupa JK, Torigian DA.: Peri prostatic adipose tissue (PPAT) MRI radiomics derived features associated with clinically significant prostate cancer. J Endourol 37(10): 1156-1161, Oct 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1089/end.2023.0215.

Bobisse S, Bianchi V, Tanyi JL, Sarivalasis A, Missiaglia E, Benedetti F, Torigian DA, Genolet R, Barras D, Michel A, Mastroyannis SA, Zsiros E, Laniti DD, Tsourti Z, Stevenson BJ, Iseli C, Levine BL, Speiser DE, Gfeller D, Bassani-Sternberg M, Powell DJ Jr, June CH, Dafni U, Kandalaft LE, Harari A, Coukos G.: A phase 1 trial of adoptive transfer of autologous vaccine-primed circulating T cells in ovarian cancer. Nat Cancer 4(10): 1410-1417, Oct 2023 Notes: The first two authors listed have contributed equally to the manuscript as co-first authors. doi: 10.1038/s43018-023-00623-x.

Shahait M Usamentiaga R, Tong Y, Sandberg A, Lee DI, Udupa JK, Torigian DA. : MRI-based radiomics analysis of levator ani muscle for predicting urine incontinence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy. Diagnostics 13(18:2913): 1-14, Sep 2023 Notes: doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13182913.

Mortazi A, Udupa JK, Odhner D, Tong Y, Torigian DA.: Post-acquisition standardization of position emission tomography images. Front Nucl Med 3(1210931): 1-15, Sep 2023 Notes: doi: 10.3389/fnume.2023.1210931.

Anderson MR, Diamond J, Shashaty M, Singer JP, Tong Y, Udupa J, Torigian DA, Palmer S, Lederer DJ, Christie JD, Al-Naamani N.: Accuracy and reproducibility of automated measurement of body composition: A Lung Transplant Body Composition cohort study. Ann Am Thorac Soc 20(9): 1363-1366, Sep 2023 Notes: DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202301-061RL.

Wethington SL, Shah PD, Martin L, Tanyi JL, Latif N, Morgan M, Torigian DA, Rodriguez D, Smith SA, Dean E, Domchek SM, Drapkin R, Shih IM, Brown EJ, Hwang WT, Armstrong DK, Gaillard S, Giuntoli R, Simpkins F.: Combination ATR (ceralasertib) and PARP (olaparib) Inhibitor (CAPRI) trial in acquired PARP-inhibitor-resistant homologous recombination deficient ovarian cancer. Clin Cancer Res 29(15): 2800-2807, Aug 2023 Notes: DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-22-2444.

Tong Y, Udupa JK, Chong E, Winchell N, Sun C, Zou Y, Schuster SJ, Torigian DA.: Prediction of lymphoma response to CAR T cells by image analysis. PLoS One 18(7): e0282573, Jul 2023 Notes: DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282573.

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