Susan Sotardi, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Pediatric Neuroradiologist , Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Faculty, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty, D3b Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania
Director, Informatics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Richard Markowitz Endowed Chair of Artificial Intelligence in Pediatric Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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: 215-590-1000
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
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.
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.
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. Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging. Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD October 2023 Notes: Poster presentation.
Tierradentro-Garcia, L. O., Sotardi, S. T., Sammer, M. B. K., & Otero, H. J.: Commercially Available Artificial Intelligence Algorithms of Interest to Pediatric Radiology: The Growing Gap Between Potential Use and Data Training. Journal of the American College of Radiology: JACR 20(8): 748-751, August 2023 Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2023.04.017.
Sammer, M. B. K., Akbari, Y. S., Barth, R. A., Blumer, S. L., Dillman, J. R., Farmakis, S. G., Frush, D. P., Gokli, A., Halabi, S. S., Iyer, R., Joshi, A., Kwon, J. K., Otero, H. J., Sher, A. C., Sotardi, S. T., Taragin, B. H., Towbin, A. J., & Wald, C. : Use of Artificial Intelligence in Radiology: Impact on Pediatric Patients, a White Paper From the ACR Pediatric AI Workgroup. Journal of the American College of Radiology: JACR 20(8): 730-737, August 2023 Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2023.06.003.