Susan Sotardi, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Pediatric Neuroradiologist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi), Children's Hospital Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty, D3b Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA
Director, Informatics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, PA
Richard Markowitz Endowed Chair of Artificial Intelligence in Pediatric Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, PA
Department: Radiology
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Radiology
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Radiology
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-7000
Email:
sotardis@chop.edu
sotardis@chop.edu
Education:
BS (Molecular and Cellular Biology, Summa Cum Laude)
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2002.
MD, MS (Combined Degree Program: Medical Doctorate & MS Clinical Research Methods)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY, 2011.
MSEng (Data Science, with concentration in Machine Learning)
Department of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2022.
Permanent linkBS (Molecular and Cellular Biology, Summa Cum Laude)
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2002.
MD, MS (Combined Degree Program: Medical Doctorate & MS Clinical Research Methods)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY, 2011.
MSEng (Data Science, with concentration in Machine Learning)
Department of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2022.
Selected Publications
Antoniades M, Srinivasan D, Wen J, Erus G, Abdulkadir A, Mamourian E, Melhem R, Hwang G, Cui Y, Govindarajan ST, Chen AA, Zhou Z, Yang Z, Chen J, Pomponio R, Sotardi S, An Y, Bilgel M, LaMontagne P, Singh A, Benzinger T, Beason-Held L, Marcus DS, Yaffe K, Launer L, Morris JC, Tosun D, Ferrucci L, Bryan RN, Resnick SM, Habes M, Wolk D, Fan Y, Nasrallah IM, Shou H, Davatzikos C.: Relationship between MRI brain-age heterogeneity, cognition, genetics and Alzheimer's disease neuropathology. EBioMedicine 109(105399), Nov 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105399; Online ahead of print as of December 2024.Flanders TM, Punchak MA, Oliver ER, Land SD, Flohr SJ, Reynolds TA, Schmidt KM, Ertz DD, Moldenhauer JS, Adzick NS, Heuer GG.: The clinical significance of lack of hindbrain herniation in fetal myelomeningocele/myeloschisis patients. Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics October 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.3171/2024.6.PEDS24170; Online ahead of print as of December 2024.
Alkhulaifat, D., Rafful, P., Khalkhali, V., Welsh, M., States, L., Sotardi, S.: Automatic Generation of Curie Score in MIBG Reports Using Natural Language Processing. Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Annual Meeting & Postgraduate Course, Miami, FL April 2024 Notes: Oral presentation.
Rafful, P., Khalkhali, V., Alkhulaifat, D., Welsh, M., Wieczkowski, S., Sotardi, S.: Pitfalls and Biases in Artificial Intelligence for Pediatric Radiology Models. Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Annual Meeting & Postgraduate Course, Miami, FL April 2024 Notes: Poster presentation.
Alkhulaifat, D., Khalkhali, V., Rafful, P., Welsh, M., Sotardi, S: Natural Language Processing for Generation of Radiology Report's Impression from Findings' Description on Pediatric Abdomen Ultrasounds. Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL November 2023 Notes: Oral presentation.
Khalkhali, V., Welsh, M., Rafful, P., Alkhulaifat, D., Ghosh, A., Bose, S., Yehya, N., Sotardi, S.: Deep Learning Model for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Detection in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Setting. Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL November 2023 Notes: Poster presentation.
Welsh, M., Khalkhali, V., Rafful, P., Alkhulaifat, D., Ghosh, A., Yehya, N., Sotardi, S. : Data Mining with Natural Language Processing on Radiology Chest X-Ray Reports. Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL November 2023 Notes: Poster presentation.
Schabdach, J. M., Schmitt, J. E., Sotardi, S., Vossough, A., Andronikou, S., Roberts, T. P., Huang, H., Padmanabhan, V., Ortiz-Rosa, A., Gardner, M., Covitz, S., Bedford, S. A., Mandal, A. S., Chaiyachati, B. H., White, S. R., Bullmore, E., Bethlehem, R. A. I., Shinohara, R. T., Billot, B., Iglesias, J. E.: Brain Growth Charts for Quantitative Analysis of Pediatric Clinical Brain MRI Scans with Limited Imaging Pathology. Radiology 309(1), October 2023 Notes: DOI: 10.1148/radiol.230096.
Alkhulaifat, D., Khalkhali, V., Rafful, P., Welsh, M., Sotardi, S. : Generation of Radiology Report’s Impression from Findings’ Description on Pediatric Abdomen Ultrasounds. Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD October 2023 Notes: *Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging; Poster presentation.
Khalkhali, V., Welsh, M., Rafful, P., Alkhulaifat, D., Ghosh, A., Bose, S., Yehya, N.: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Detection in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Setting Demonstrates High Performance with Transfer Deep Learning. Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD October 2023 Notes: Oral presentation.