Raymond Acciavatti, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Radiology
Department: Radiology
Contact information
John Morgan Building
3620 Hamilton Walk
X-Ray Physics Lab
JMB 151B
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3620 Hamilton Walk
X-Ray Physics Lab
JMB 151B
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
B.S. (Majors in Mathematics, Physics, and Comprehensive Science (Minor in Chemistry))
Villanova University , 2007.
Ph.D. (Bioengineering)
University of Pennsylvania , 2013.
Permanent linkB.S. (Majors in Mathematics, Physics, and Comprehensive Science (Minor in Chemistry))
Villanova University , 2007.
Ph.D. (Bioengineering)
University of Pennsylvania , 2013.
Description of Research Expertise
Early Detection of Breast Cancer; X-ray Imaging; Digital Mammography; Digital Tomosynthesis; Imaging BiomarkersSelected Publications
Acciavatti RJ, Lee SH, Reig B, Moy L, Conant EF, Kontos D, Moon WK: Beyond Breast Density: Risk Measures for Breast Cancer in Multiple Imaging Modalities. Radiology 306(3): e222575, March 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1148/radiol.222575.da Nobrega YNG, Carvalhal G, Teixeira JPV, de Camargo BP, do Rego TG, Malheiros Y, Filho TMES, Vent TL, Acciavatti RJ, Maidment ADA, Barufaldi B: Multiclass Segmentation of Suspicious Findings in Simulated Breast Tomosynthesis Images Using a U-Net. Proc. SPIE, 16th International Workshop on Breast Imaging (IWBI 2022). Hilde Bosmans; Nicholas Marshall; Chantal Van Ongeval (eds.). SPIE Proceedings Vol. 12286, 12286: 122860L, July 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1117/12.2626225.
Choi CJ, Barufaldi B, Teixeira JPV, Acciavatti RJ, Maidment ADA: Spatial dependency of lesion detectability in digital breast tomosynthesis. Proc. SPIE, 16th International Workshop on Breast Imaging (IWBI 2022). Hilde Bosmans; Nicholas Marshall; Chantal Van Ongeval (eds.). SPIE Proceedings Vol. 12286, 12286: 1228618, July 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1117/12.2626272.
Acciavatti RJ, Choi CJ, Vent TL, Barufaldi B, Maidment ADA: Achieving Isotropic Super-Resolution with a Non-Isocentric Acquisition Geometry in a Next-Generation Tomosynthesis System. Proc. SPIE, Medical Imaging 2022: Physics of Medical Imaging. Wei Zhao; Lifeng Yu (eds.). 12031: 120314B, April 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1117/12.2612451.
Teixeira JPV, Filho TMS, do Rêgo TG, Malheiros YB, Dustler M, Bakic PR, Vent TL, Acciavatti RJ, Krishnamoorthy S, Surti S, Maidment ADA, Barufaldi B: Novel Perlin-based Phantoms Using 3D Models of Compressed Breast Shape and Fractal Noise. Proc. SPIE, Medical Imaging 2022: Physics of Medical Imaging. Wei Zhao; Lifeng Yu (eds.). 12031: 120313S, April 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1117/12.2612565.
Singh P, Choi CJ, Vent TL, Barufaldi B, Acciavatti RJ, Conant EF, Maidment ADA: Mathematical Foundations of a Novel Reconstruction Algorithm that Facilitates Real-Time 4D Tomosynthesis. Proc. SPIE, Medical Imaging 2022: Physics of Medical Imaging. Wei Zhao; Lifeng Yu (eds.). Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 12031, 12031: 1203104, April 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1117/12.2608299.
Vent TL, Acciavatti RJ, Choi C, Barufaldi B, Krishnamoorthy S, Borges L, Kuo J, Ringer PA, Ng S, Surti S, Maidment ADA: Pre-clinical evaluation and optimization of image quality for a Next Generation Tomosynthesis prototype. Proc. SPIE, Medical Imaging 2022: Physics of Medical Imaging Wei Zhao; Lifeng Yu (eds.). 12031: 1203142, April 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1117/12.2608811.
Ibrahim A, Barufaldi B, Refaee T, Filho TMS, Acciavatti RJ, Salahuddin Z, Hustinx R, Mottaghy FM, Maidment ADA, Lambin P: MaasPenn Radiomics Reproducibility Score: A Novel Quantitative Measure for Evaluating the Reproducibility of CT-Based Handcrafted Radiomic Features. Cancers. Claudio Fiorino; Stefano Fanti; Katja Pinker-Domenig (eds.). 14(7): 1599, March 2022 Notes: doi: 10.3390/cancers14071599.
Barufaldi B, Abbey CK, Lago MA, Vent TL, Acciavatti RJ, Bakic PR, Maidment ADA: Computational Breast Anatomy Simulation Using Multi-scale Perlin Noise. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 40(12): 3436-3445, December 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1109/TMI.2021.3087958.
Acciavatti RJ, Cohen EA, Maghsoudi OH, Gastounioti A, Pantalone L, Hsieh M-K, Conant EF, Scott CG, Winham SJ, Kerlikowske K, Vachon C, Maidment ADA, Kontos D: Incorporating Robustness to Imaging Physics into Radiomic Feature Selection for Breast Cancer Risk Estimation. Cancers. Elif Hindie (eds.). 13(21): 5497, November 2021 Notes: doi: 10.3390/cancers13215497.