WilliamFrederickAuffermannMD

Cardiac CT & MRI, Thoracic Imaging, Clinical Informatics

Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences; Section Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging; University of Utah School of Medicine

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Office
HELIX Tower, Suite-2S
30 N Mario Capecchi Dr.
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Phone+1 801-581-7553

Summary

I board certified in radiology (specializing in cardiothoracic imaging) and clinical informatics. My research focuses on human factors engineering and developing new methods for educating healthcare trainees and practitioners based on our knowledge of how humans perceive medical images. Methods being examined are derived from the literature on medical image perception and the mechanisms by which human observers interpret medical images to formulate diagnostic decisions. These methods are incorporated into training algorithms on a simulated radiology workstation. Subject performance is evaluated as a function of training.

Clinical Expertise

Cardiothoracic imaging, Pneumonia, Cardiothoracic transplantation, Health technology/informatics, Thoracic radiology, Medical Image Perception, Thoracic Oncology Imaging

Education & Training

Duke University HospitalFellowship, Advanced Cardiac Imaging, 2009 - 2010
University of MinnesotaResidency, Radiology-Diagnostic, 2005 - 2009
University of Minnesota Medical SchoolClass of 2004
University of MinnesotaPh. D., Biomedical Engineering, 1996 - 2002
Polytechnic UniversityB.S., Chemistry, Summa Cum Laude, 1992 - 1996

Certifications & Licensure

UT State Medical License 2017 - 2026
IL State Medical License 2013 - 2020
GA State Medical License 2010 - 2019
NC State Medical License 2009 - 2019
American Board of Preventive Medicine Clinical Informatics
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Graduate Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering Whitaker Foundation, 1999

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

16 citations
Simulation for Teaching and Assessment of Nodule Perception on Chest Radiography in Nonradiology Health Care Trainees.
William F. Auffermann, Travis S. Henry, Brent P. Little, Stefan Tigges, Srini Tridandapani
Journal of the American College of Radiology. 2015-11-01
130 citations
Diffusion-weighted hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI in healthy volunteers and subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
S. Sivaram Kaushik, Zackary I. Cleveland, Gary P. Cofer, Gregory Metz, Denise Beaver
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2011-04-01
46 citations
Perceptual and Interpretive Error in Diagnostic Radiology-Causes and Potential Solutions.
Andrew J. Degnan, Emily H. Ghobadi, Peter A. Hardy, Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Elena P. Scali
Academic Radiology. 2019-06-01

Journal Articles

Teaching Search Patterns to Medical Trainees in an Educational Laboratory to Improve Perception of Pulmonary Nodules
William F. Auffermann, Brent P. Little, Srini Tridandapani, Journal of Medical Imaging,, 1/2016
Online Social Networking for Radiology
William Auffermann, Alison Chetlen, Andrew Colucci, Ivan DeQuesada II, Joseph Grajo, Matthew Heller, Kristina Nowitzki, Steven Sherry, Allison Tillack, Academic Radiology, 1/1/2015
Characterization of Cardiac Quiescence from Retrospective Cardiac Computed Tomography Using a Correlation-Based Phase-to-Phase Deviation Measure
Carson A. Wick, James H. McClellan, Chesnal D. Arepalli, William F. Auffermann, Travis S. Henry, Faisal Khosa, Adam M. Coy, Srini Tridandapani, Medical Physics, 1/1/2014
Pilot Study of the Utility of the Synthetic PET Amino-Acid Radiotracer Anti-1-Amino-3-[18F]Fluorocyclobutane-1- Carboxylic Acid for the Noninvasive Imaging of Pulmonar...
Amzat R, Taleghani P, Miller DL, Beitler JJ, Bellamy LM, Nye JA, Yu W, Savir-Baruch B, Osunkoya AO, Chen Z, Auffermann WF, Goodman MM, Schuster DM., Molecular Imaging and Biology, 1/1/2013
Mobile Computing for Radiology
William F. Auffermann, MD, PhD, Alison L. Chetlen, DO, Arjun Sharma, MD, Andrew T. Colucci, MD, Ivan M. DeQuesada, II, MD, Joseph R. Grajo, MD, Justin W. Kung, MD, Tho..., Academic Radiology, 1/1/2013
Diffusion-Weighted Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI in Healthy Volunteers and Subjects With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Kaushik, S.S.; Cleveland, Z.I.; Cofer, G.P.; Metz, G.; Beaver, D.; Nouls, J.; Kraft, M.; Wolber, J.; Kelly, K.T.; Auffermann, W.; McAdams, H.P.; Driehuys, B., Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1/1/2011
The Role of Biomarkers in Thoracic Imaging
William F. Auffermann, Lacey Washington, Elizabeth B. Gottlin, Edward F. Patz, Imaging in Medicine, 1/1/2010
Node merging in Kohonen's self-organizing mapping of fMRI data
Shing-Chung Ngan, Essa S. Yacoub, William F. Auffermann, and Xiaoping Hu, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 1/1/2002
Non- Additive Two-Way ANOVA for Event-Related fMRI Data Analysis
William F. Auffermann, Shing-Chung Ngan, Shantanu Sarkar, Essa Yacoub, Xiaoping Hu, NeuroImage, 1/1/2001
Activation Detection in Event-Related fMRI Data Based on Spatio-Temporal Properties
Shing-Chung Ngan, William F. Auffermann, Shantanu Sarkar, and Xiaoping Hu, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 1/1/2001
Aerosol Particle Microphotography And Glare Spot Absorption Spectroscopy
S. Arnold, S. Holler, J.H. Li, A. Serpenguzel, W.F. Auffermann and S.C. Hill, Optics Letters, 1/1/1995
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Books/Book Chapters

Cardiac Imaging: Rotations in Radiology
Chapter: Pulmonary Artery Stenosis
William F. Auffermann, Brent P. Little, Travis S. HenryEditors: White, Haramati, Chen, and Levsky.Oxford University Press, NY2014
Cardiac Imaging: Rotations in Radiology
Chapter: Pericardial Calcification
Brent P. Little, Travis S. Henry, William F. AuffermannEditors: White, Haramati, Chen, and Levsky.Oxford University Press, NY2014
Cardiac Imaging: Rotations in Radiology
Chapter: Rastelli Pocedure
Travis S Henry, William F Auffermann, Brent P LittleEditors: White, Haramati, Chen, and Levsky.Oxford University Press, NY2014

Abstracts/Posters

Wavelets for medical image analysis - An introduction for radiologists
William F. Auffermann, Brani Vidakovic, Tonya Woods, American Roentgen Ray Society, 1/1/2014
Documenting training of a competent radiologist: How to incorporate the milestone project into your radiology residency training program
Kristen L. Baugnon, M.D.; Ashley H. Aiken, M.D.; William F. Aufferman M.D.,PhD; Mark E. Mullins, M.D.,PhD, Association of University Radiologists Annual Meeting, Association of University Radiologists, 1/1/2013
Window of Opportunity Preoperative Interrogation of mTOR Pathway in Patients with Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
Taofeek Kunle Owonikoko, Daniel L. Miller, Seth Force, Gabriel Sica, Scott Kono, Madhusmita Behera, Jennifer Mendel, Zhengjia Chen, Allan Pickens, Robert W. Fu, Willia..., 2013 AACR Annual Meeting, 1/1/2013
Seeing Is Believing: Perception and Diagnosis in Clinical Chest Radiology
Andrew David Nicholson MD, William Auffermann MD, PhD, Travis S. Henry MD, Brent Little MD, Radiological Society of North America, 1/1/2012
Imaging findings for pulmonary artery and thoracic aortic intimal sarcomas
Auffermann WF, Martinez-Jimenez S, Washington L, McAdams HP, Society of Thoracic Radiology, 1/1/2011
Diffusion Weighted Imaging of Hyperpolarized 129Xe in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
S.S. Kaushik, M.S.; Z.I. Cleveland, Ph.D.; G.P. Cofer, M.S.; G. Metz, MD; D. Beaver, AAS, RRT, RCP, CPFT; J. Nouls, PhD; M. Kraft, M.D; J. Wolber, PhD; K.T. Kelly, B.S..., American thoracic society, 1/1/2010
High Resolution Head and Neck PET-CT in Biopsy Proven Malignancies
B. Jagadeesan, MD; D. Susanto, MD; W. Auffermann, MD, PhD; T. Dhurairaj, MD; J.W. Froelich, MD, Radiological Society of North America, 1/1/2007
Template Free Spatial Canonical Self-Correlation
William F. Auffermann, Xiaoping Hu, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1/1/2002
Testing Reproducibility in fMRI using the Bootstrap
William F. Auffermann, Xiaoping Hu, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1/1/2002
The use of Spatiotemporal Properties in Event-Related fMRI Data
Shing-Chung Ngan, William F. Auffermann, Shantanu Sarkar, Xiaoping Hu, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1/1/2001
Auto-regressive model order estimation in functional MRI data
Shantanu Sarkar, Essa Yacoub, William F. Auffermann, Shing-Chung Ngan, and Xiaoping Hu, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1/1/2001
The Effects of Physiological Noise Correction on fMRI Time-Series
William F. Auffermann, Shing-Chung Ngan, Shantanu Sarkar, Essa Yacoub, Xiaoping Hu, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1/1/2001
A Significance test for Clustering
William F. Auffermann, Shing-Chung Ngan, Essa Yacoub, Xiaoping Hu, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1/1/2001
Non- Linearities in Event-Related BOLD fMRI Using Very Short Stimulus Duration - A Study with High Temporal Resolution and Voxel Specific Analysis
J. Pfeuffer, P.-F. van de Moortele, G. Adriany, W.F. Auffermann, K. Ugurbil, X. Hu, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1/1/2000
Parameter- Free Spatio-Temporal Filtering of fMRI Data
Shing-Chung Ngan, Stephen M. LaConte, William F. Auffermann and Xiaoping Hu, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in 
Medicine, 1/1/2000
Two- Way ANOVA for Nonparametric Analysis of Event Related fMRI Data
William F. Auffermann, Shing-Chung Ngan, Shantanu Sarkar, Essa Yacoub, Xiaoping Hu, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1/1/2000
Aerosol Particle Microphotography and Spectroscopy 'in situ'
S. Arnold, S. Holler, J.H. Li, A. Serpenguzel and W.F. Auffermann, American Chemical Society, Division of Environmental Chemistry, 1/1/1995
Aerosol Particle Microphotography 'in situ'
S. Arnold, J.H. Li, W.F. Auffermann, S. Holler and A. Serpenguzel, American Association for Aerosol Research, Fourth International 
Aerosol Conference, 1/1/1994
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Lectures

Medical Image Perception and the Effect of Training on Interpretation Performance
Atlanta, GA - 1/1/2014
Social Networking in Radiology
Baltimore, MD - 1/1/2014
Incidental findings in the lower thorax on Abdominal MRI
San Diego, CA - 1/1/2014
Pulmonary Nodules and Nodule Management
Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta, GA - 1/1/2014
Imaging of Lymphoma in the Chest
Atlanta, GA - 1/6/2013
Mobile Computing in Radiology
Los Angeles, CA - 1/1/2013
Workshop on Imaging of Thoracic Malignancies; Thoracic Imaging
Huntington Beach, CA - 1/1/2012
Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Thoracic Oncology
Hollywood, FL - 1/1/2012
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Press Mentions

AI-Based CAD Algorithm Shows Value in 'Real-World' SettingFebruary 7th, 2023
AI Saves Radiologists Time by Triaging Chest X-rays, but Is It Clinically Feasible?January 22nd, 2019
Emory Healthcare Imaging Locations Named Lung Cancer Screening Centers by American College of RadiologyDecember 1st, 2016
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