Fred W Prior, PhD

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

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

• NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute – 75N91019D00024
  “TO4 Moonshot BioBank – Support to IROC”
  Principal Investigator
  5/22/2020 – 8/30/2025
• NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute – HHSN261200800001E
  “TCIA TO7 Apollo”
  Principal Investigator
  9/12/2019 – 8/30/2025

Recent Publications

• Gomez F, Danos AM, Del Fiol G, [et al., including Prior F]. A New Era of Data-Driven Cancer Research and Care: Opportunities and Challenges. Cancer discovery. 2024 14(10):1774-1778. PMID: 39363742. PMCID: PMC11463721.
• Clunie D, Prior F, Rutherford M, [et al.]. Summary of the National Cancer Institute 2023 Virtual Workshop on Medical Image De-identification-Part 1: Report of the MIDI Task Group - Best Practices and Recommendations, Tools for Conventional Approaches to De-identification, International Approaches to De-identification, and Industry Panel on Image De-identification. Journal of imaging informatics in medicine. 2024. PMID: 38997571.
• Kondylakis H, Catalan R, Alabart SM, [et al., including Prior F]. Documenting the de-identification process of clinical and imaging data for AI for health imaging projects. Insights into imaging. 2024 15(1):130. PMID: 38816658. PMCID: PMC11139818.
• Tachinardi U, Grannis SJ, Michael SG, [et al., including Prior F]. Privacy-preserving record linkage across disparate institutions and datasets to enable a learning health system: The national COVID cohort collaborative (N3C) experience. Learning health systems. 2024 8(1):e10404. PMID: 38249841. PMCID: PMC10797567.
• Virmani T, Pillai L, Smith V, [et al., including Prior F]. Feasibility of regional center telehealth visits utilizing a rural research network in people with Parkinson's disease. Journal of clinical and translational science. 2024 8(1):e63. PMID: 38655451. PMCID: PMC11036429.
• Iyer A, Kemp A, Rahmatallah Y, [et al., including Prior F]. A machine learning method to process voice samples for identification of Parkinson's disease. Scientific reports. 2023 13(1):20615. PMID: 37996478. PMCID: PMC10667335.
• O'Sullivan B, Ounpraseuth S, James L, [et al., including Prior F]. Vitamin D Oral Replacement in Children With Obesity Related Asthma: VDORA1 Randomized Clinical Trial. Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. 2023. PMID: 37926939. PMCID: PMC10990434.
• 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.
• FitzGerald TJ, Bishop-Jodoin M, Laurie F, [et al., including Prior F]. The Importance of Quality Assurance in Radiation Oncology Clinical Trials. Seminars in radiation oncology. 2023 33(4):395-406. PMID: 37684069.
• Kondylakis H, Kalokyri V, Sfakianakis S, [et al., including Prior F]. Data infrastructures for AI in medical imaging: a report on the experiences of five EU projects. European radiology experimental. 2023 7(1):20. PMID: 37150779. PMCID: PMC10164664.
• 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. PMCID: PMC10512201.
• 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. PMCID: PMC10411523.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. PMCID: PMC10578132.
• 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.