Fred W Prior, PhD

Research Program: Cancer Therapeutics Faculty Rank: Professor Campus: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College: College of Medicine Department: Biomedical Informatics

Cancer Research Interest

• Disease Site Focus: Thoracic/ Lung
• Research Focus Area: Informatics
• Type of Research: Basic
• Research Interest Statement: My research focuses on cancer imaging informatics with dual thrusts in open access data publication and radiomics analyses to improve cancer screening and track response to therapy.

Contact Information

• Email Address: FWPRIOR@UAMS.EDU
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Active Grants

• National Science Foundation – OIA-1946391
  “Robust and Trusted Data Analytics”
  Principal Investigator
  07/01/22 – 08/31/23
• NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute – 75N91019D00024
  “TO 9 MIDI 3”
  Principal Investigator
  05/02/22 – 08/30/23
• European Commission – 952103
  “Tools for data curation, quality control and data interoperability ”
  Principal Investigator
  10/01/20 – 09/30/24
• NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute – 75N91019D00024
  “TO4 Moonshot BioBank ? Support to IROC”
  Principal Investigator
  05/22/20 – 08/30/23
• NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute – HHSN261200800001E
  “TCIA TO7 Apollo”
  Principal Investigator
  09/12/19 – 08/30/23
• NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute – HHSN261200800001E
  “TCIA TO8 PDX”
  Principal Investigator
  09/12/19 – 08/30/23
• NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute – HHSN261200800001E
  “TCIA TO6 IROC”
  Principal Investigator
  09/09/19 – 08/30/23
• NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute – 75N91019D00024
  “20X023F TO 3”
  Principal Investigator
  08/31/19 – 08/30/24
• NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute – 75N91019D00024
  “20X023F TO 1”
  Principal Investigator
  08/31/19 – 08/30/23
• NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute – 1U24CA215109
  “TCIA Sustainment and Scalability - Platforms for Quantitative Imaging Informatics in Precision Medicine”
  Principal Investigator
  09/22/17 – 07/31/23
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute – PCS-1403-12804 (WU-17-29)
  “Pragmatic Randomized Trial of Proton vs. Photon Therapy for Patients with Non-Metastatic Breast Cancer Receiving Comprehensive Nodal Radiation: A Radiotherapy Comparative Effectiveness (RADCOMP) Trial”
  Principal Investigator
  11/01/15 – 10/31/23

Publications

• Osuala R, Skorupko G, Lazrak N, [et al., including Prior F]. medigan: a Python library of pretrained generative models for medical image synthesis. Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.). 2023 10(6):061403. PMID: 36814939. PMCID: PMC9940031.
• Clunie DA, Flanders A, Taylor A, [et al., including Prior F]. Report of the Medical Image De-Identification (MIDI) Task Group -- Best Practices and Recommendations. ArXiv. 2023. PMID: 37033463. PMCID: PMC10081345.
• Greer M, Garza MY, Lee J, [et al., including Prior F]. Informatics infrastructure in a rural pediatric clinical trials network: Matching specific clinical research needs with best practices and industry guidelines. Contemporary clinical trials. 2023 126:107110. PMID: 36738915.
• Smith K, Ulin K, Knopp M, [et al., including Prior F]. Quality improvements in radiation oncology clinical trials. Frontiers in oncology. 2023 13:1015596. PMID: 36776318. PMCID: PMC9911211.
• Bona JP, Utecht J, Bost S, [et al., including Prior F]. The PRISM semantic cohort builder: a novel tool to search and access clinical data in TCIA imaging collections. Physics in medicine and biology. 2022 68(1). PMID: 36279873. PMCID: PMC9855624.
• James L, O'Sullivan BP, Majure M, [et al., including Prior F]. Protocol for the Vitamin D Oral Replacement in Asthma (VDORA) study. Contemporary clinical trials. 2022 120:106861. PMID: 35907490.
• Buchsbaum JC, Jaffray DA, Ba D, [et al., including Prior F]. Predictive Radiation Oncology - A New NCI-DOE Scientific Space and Community. Radiation research. 2022 197(4):434-445. PMID: 35090025. PMCID: PMC9058979.
• Syed S, Angel AJ, Syeda HB, [et al., including Prior F]. TAX-Corpus: Taxonomy based Annotations for Colonoscopy Evaluation. Biomedical engineering systems and technologies, international joint conference, BIOSTEC ... revised selected papers. BIOSTEC (Conference). 2022 2022:162-169. PMID: 35300321. PMCID: PMC8926426.
• Syed S, Angel AJ, Syeda HB, [et al., including Prior F]. The h-ANN Model: Comprehensive Colonoscopy Concept Compilation Using Combined Contextual Embeddings. Biomedical engineering systems and technologies, international joint conference, BIOSTEC ... revised selected papers. BIOSTEC (Conference). 2022 5:189-200. PMID: 35373222. PMCID: PMC8970464.
• Syed M, Sexton K, Greer M, [et al., including Prior F]. DeIDNER Model: A Neural Network Named Entity Recognition Model for Use in the De-identification of Clinical Notes. Biomedical engineering systems and technologies, international joint conference, BIOSTEC ... revised selected papers. BIOSTEC (Conference). 2022 5:640-647. PMID: 35386186. PMCID: PMC8981408.
• Ma L, Peterson EA, Shin IJ, [et al., including Prior F]. An advanced molecular medicine case report of a rare human tumor using genomics, pathomics, and radiomics. Frontiers in genetics. 2022 13:987175. PMID: 36846293. PMCID: PMC9951004.
• Koh DM, Papanikolaou N, Bick U, [et al., including Prior F]. Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cancer imaging. Communications medicine. 2022 2:133. PMID: 36310650. PMCID: PMC9613681.
• Ding L, Bradford C, Kuo IL, [et al., including Prior F]. Radiation Oncology: Future Vision for Quality Assurance and Data Management in Clinical Trials and Translational Science. Frontiers in oncology. 2022 12:931294. PMID: 36033446. PMCID: PMC9399423.
• Virmani T, Lotia M, Glover A, [et al., including Prior FW]. Feasibility of telemedicine research visits in people with Parkinson's disease residing in medically underserved areas. Journal of clinical and translational science. 2022 6(1):e133. PMID: 36590358. PMCID: PMC9794963.
• Rutherford M, Mun SK, Levine B, [et al., including Prior F]. A DICOM dataset for evaluation of medical image de-identification. Scientific data. 2021 8(1):183. PMID: 34272388. PMCID: PMC8285420.
• Syed M, Syed S, Sexton K, [et al., including Prior F]. Deep Learning Methods to Predict Mortality in COVID-19 Patients: A Rapid Scoping Review. Studies in health technology and informatics. 2021 281:799-803. PMID: 34042688.
• Syed S, Syed M, Prior F, [et al.]. Machine Learning Approach to Optimize Sedation Use in Endoscopic Procedures. Studies in health technology and informatics. 2021 281:183-187. PMID: 34042730. PMCID: PMC9016977.
• Syed S, Tharian B, Syeda HB, [et al., including Prior F]. Consolidated EHR Workflow for Endoscopy Quality Reporting. Studies in health technology and informatics. 2021 281:427-431. PMID: 34042779. PMCID: PMC9019787.
• Syed M, Al-Shukri S, Syed S, [et al., including Prior F]. DeIDNER Corpus: Annotation of Clinical Discharge Summary Notes for Named Entity Recognition Using BRAT Tool. Studies in health technology and informatics. 2021 281:432-436. PMID: 34042780. PMCID: PMC9019788.
• FitzGerald TJ, Followill D, Laurie F, [et al., including Prior F]. Quality assurance in radiation oncology. Pediatric blood & cancer. 2021 68 Suppl 2:e28609. PMID: 33818891.
• Diaz O, Kushibar K, Osuala R, [et al., including Prior F]. Data preparation for artificial intelligence in medical imaging: A comprehensive guide to open-access platforms and tools. Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB). 2021 83:25-37. PMID: 33684723.
• Syed M, Syed S, Sexton K, [et al., including Prior F]. Application of Machine Learning in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Settings Using MIMIC Dataset: Systematic Review. Informatics (MDPI). 2021 8(1). PMID: 33981592. PMCID: PMC8112729.
• Syeda HB, Syed M, Sexton KW, [et al., including Prior F]. Role of Machine Learning Techniques to Tackle the COVID-19 Crisis: Systematic Review. JMIR medical informatics. 2021 9(1):e23811. PMID: 33326405. PMCID: PMC7806275.
• Syed S, Syed M, Syeda HB, [et al., including Prior F]. API Driven On-Demand Participant ID Pseudonymization in Heterogeneous Multi-Study Research. Healthcare informatics research. 2021 27(1):39-47. PMID: 33611875. PMCID: PMC7921568.
• Bona J, Kemp AS, Cox C, [et al., including Prior F]. Semantic Integration of Multi-Modal Data and Derived Neuroimaging Results Using the Platform for Imaging in Precision Medicine (PRISM) in the Arkansas Imaging Enterprise System (ARIES). Frontiers in artificial intelligence. 2021 4:649970. PMID: 35224477. PMCID: PMC8866818.
• Jenjaroenpun P, Wanchai V, Ono-Moore KD, [et al., including Prior F]. Two SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequences of Isolates from Rural U.S. Patients Harboring the D614G Mutation, Obtained Using Nanopore Sequencing. Microbiology resource announcements. 2020 10(1). PMID: 33334896. PMCID: PMC8407695.
• Desai S, Baghal A, Wongsurawat T, [et al., including Prior F]. Chest imaging representing a COVID-19 positive rural U.S. population. Scientific data. 2020 7(1):414. PMID: 33235265. PMCID: PMC7686304.
• Kirby J, Prior F, Petrick N, [et al.]. Introduction to Special Issue on Datasets hosted in The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA). Medical physics. 2020. PMID: 33202038.
• Fedorov A, Hancock M, Clunie D, [et al., including Prior F]. DICOM re-encoding of volumetrically annotated Lung Imaging Database Consortium (LIDC) nodules. Medical physics. 2020. PMID: 32772385. PMCID: PMC7721965.
• Syed S, Baghal A, Prior F, [et al.]. Toolkit to Compute Time-Based Elixhauser Comorbidity Indices and Extension to Common Data Models. Healthcare informatics research. 2020 26(3):193-200. PMID: 32819037. PMCID: PMC7438698.
• Syed S, Syed M, Syeda HB, [et al., including Prior F]. Document Oriented Graphical Analysis and Prediction. Studies in health technology and informatics. 2020 270:183-187. PMID: 32570371.
• Sharma A, Tarbox L, Kurc T, [et al., including Prior F]. PRISM: A Platform for Imaging in Precision Medicine. JCO clinical cancer informatics. 2020 4:491-499. PMID: 32479186. PMCID: PMC7328100.
• Fedorov A, Beichel R, Kalpathy-Cramer J, [et al., including Prior F]. Quantitative Imaging Informatics for Cancer Research. JCO clinical cancer informatics. 2020 4:444-453. PMID: 32392097. PMCID: PMC7265794.
• Prior F, Almeida J, Kathiravelu P, [et al.]. Open access image repositories: high-quality data to enable machine learning research. Clinical radiology. 2020 75(1):7-12. PMID: 31040006. PMCID: PMC6815686.
• Bekelman JE, Lu H, Pugh S, [et al., including Prior FW]. Pragmatic randomised clinical trial of proton versus photon therapy for patients with non-metastatic breast cancer: the Radiotherapy Comparative Effectiveness (RadComp) Consortium trial protocol. BMJ open. 2019 9(10):e025556. PMID: 31619413. PMCID: PMC6797426.
• Bona JP, Prior FW, Zozus MN, Brochhausen M. Enhancing Clinical Data and Clinical Research Data with Biomedical Ontologies - Insights from the Knowledge Representation Perspective. Yearbook of medical informatics. 2019 28(1):140-151. PMID: 31419826. PMCID: PMC6697506.
• Baghal A, Zozus M, Baghal A, [et al., including Prior F]. Factors Associated with Increased Adoption of a Research Data Warehouse. Studies in health technology and informatics. 2019 257:31-35. PMID: 30741168.
• Commean PK, Smith KE, Hildebolt CF, [et al., including Prior FW]. A Candidate Imaging Marker for Early Detection of Charcot Neuroarthropathy. Journal of clinical densitometry : the official journal of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry. 2018 21(4):485-492. PMID: 28668579. PMCID: PMC5745321.
• Causey JL, Zhang J, Ma S, [et al., including Prior F]. Highly accurate model for prediction of lung nodule malignancy with CT scans. Scientific reports. 2018 8(1):9286. PMID: 29915334. PMCID: PMC6006355.
• Prior F, Smith K, Sharma A, [et al.]. The public cancer radiology imaging collections of The Cancer Imaging Archive. Scientific data. 2017 4:170124. PMID: 28925987. PMCID: PMC5827108.
• Chennubhotla C, Clarke LP, Fedorov A, [et al., including Prior F]. An Assessment of Imaging Informatics for Precision Medicine in Cancer. Yearbook of medical informatics. 2017 26(1):110-119. PMID: 29063549. PMCID: PMC6250996.
• Sinacore DR, Bohnert KL, Smith KE, [et al., including Prior FW]. Persistent inflammation with pedal osteolysis 1year after Charcot neuropathic osteoarthropathy. Journal of diabetes and its complications. 2017 31(6):1014-1020. PMID: 28254346. PMCID: PMC5438890.
• Benedict SH, Hoffman K, Martel MK, [et al., including Prior F]. Overview of the American Society for Radiation Oncology-National Institutes of Health-American Association of Physicists in Medicine Workshop 2015: Exploring Opportunities for Radiation Oncology in the Era of Big Data. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics. 2016 95(3):873-879. PMID: 27302503. PMCID: PMC4965164.
• Rosenstein BS, Capala J, Efstathiou JA, [et al., including Prior FW]. How Will Big Data Improve Clinical and Basic Research in Radiation Therapy?. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics. 2016 95(3):895-904. PMID: 26797542. PMCID: PMC4864183.