About me
Dr. Ross Filice is a Professor, the Chief of Imaging Informatics, and the Director of Research in the Department of Radiology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital as well as the Chief of Imaging Informatics for MedStar Medical Group Radiology. He is the Director of the Georgetown Radiology Informatics Mini-Fellowship and also holds a position as Clinical Informatics Scientist in the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare within the MedStar Institute for Innovation. Dr. Filice performs clinical and teaching duties as an attending physician in the Abdominal Imaging Section at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
After earning bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Dr. Filice earned his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. This was followed by an internship in Internal Medicine at Greenwich Hospital, a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a fellowship in MRI and Imaging Informatics at the University of Maryland Medical System.
Dr. Filice focuses on imaging the chest, abdomen, and pelvis using all modalities including MRI, CT, Ultrasound, and Radiography (X-Rays) and with particular focus on liver MRI, prostate MRI, pelvic MRI, multi-modality cancer imaging, and multi-organ transplant evaluation. He also works on enterprise and operational informatics challenges including managing and improving the enterprise imaging platform, deployment of artificial intelligence tools, establishing opportunistic screening programs, and collaborative informatics, quality, and safety research. He is regularly invited to speak nationally and internationally on imaging informatics topics, serves as a reviewer for multiple journals, and has published numerous articles in the field.
Procedures I perform
- Adrenal Ct
- Ct Of The Abdomen/Pelvis
- Cta For Aortic Stent
- Cta For Dissection
- Cta For Mesenteric Ischemia
- Ctv Abdomen/Pelvis
- Gallbladder Ultrasound
- Liver Transplant Us
- Mr Abdomen
- Mr Adrenal
- Mr Female Pelvis
- Mr Of The Prostate
- Mr Renal Mass Protocol
- Mr Urogram
- Mra Of The Abdomen
- Mrcp
- Mrv Abdomen/Pelvis
- Pancreatic Mass Ct
- Pelvic Us Obstetric
- Renal Transplant Us
- Transabdominal Pelvic Us
- Ultrasound
- Ultrasound Guided Biopsy
- Us Abdominal Wall
- Us Aortic Screening
- Us Appendix
- Us Of The Bladder
- Us Of The Kidneys
- Us Of The Scrotum
- Us Of The Spleen
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Radiology, Diagnostic Radiology
Fellowship: University of Maryland Medical Center (2010)
Residency: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2009)
Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School Office of the Registrar (2004)
Awards
- Editor’s Recognition Award for Reviewing with Distinction for Radiographics, Apr 2023 American Journal of Roentgenology Editor’s Choice article week of November 9, 2021. [Yi PH, Malone PS, Lin CT, Filice RW. Deep learning algorithms for interpretation of upper extremity radiographs: laterality and technologist initial labels as confounding factors. Am J Roentgenol. 2022 Apr;218(4):714-5. doi: 10.2214/AJR.21.26882 PubMed PMID: 34755522] Editor’s Recognition Award for outstanding contributions as a manuscript reviewer for Radiographics, Aug 2019 Journal of Digital Imaging Best Paper of 2017 [Kelahan L, Kalaria A, Filice R. PathBot: A Radiology-Pathology Correlation Dashboard. J Digit Imaging. 2017 Dec;30(6):681-6. Epub ahead of print 2017 Apr 3. doi: 10.1007/s10278-017-9969-2. PubMed PMID: 28374195] MedStar Medical Group Radiology Above and Beyond Award, Oct 2017 MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Department of Radiology and MedStar Medical Group Radiology Service Award, Jun 2016
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
Shad R, Zakka C, Kaur D, Fong R, Filice RW, Mongan J, Kalianos K, Khandawala N, Eng D, Leipzig M, Witschey W, de Feria A, Ferrari V, Ashley E, Acker MA, Langlotz C, Hiesinger W. A generalizable deep learning system for cardiac MRI; arXiv:2312.00357 [eess.IV] 1 Dec 2023. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2312.00357
Barinov L, Jairaj A, Middleton WD, Beland MD, Kirsch J, Filice RW, Reverter J, Arguelles I, Grant EG. Improving the efficacy of ACR TI-RADS through deep learning-based descriptor augmentation. J Digit Imaging. 2023 Dec;36(6):2392-401. doi: 10.1007/s10278-023-00884-z
Chepelev LL, Kwan D, Kahn, CE, Filice RW, Wang KC. Ontologies in the New Computational Age of Radiology: RadLex for Semantics and Interoperability in Imaging Workflows. Radiographics. 2023 Feb;43(3). doi:10.1148/rg.220098
Gerard R, Makeeva V, Vey B, Cook TS, Nagy P, Filice RW, Wang KC, Balthazar P, Harri P, Safdar NM. Imaging Informatics Fellowship Curriculum: Building Consensus on the Most Critical Topics and the Future of the Informatics Fellowship. J Digit Imaging. 2023 Feb;36(1):1-10. doi: 10.1007/ s10278-022-00702-y
Yi PH, Malone PS, Lin CT, Filice RW. Deep learning algorithms for interpretation of upper extremity radiographs: laterality and technologist initial labels as confounding factors. Am J Roentgenol. 2022 Apr;218(4):714-5. doi: 10.2214/AJR.21.26882 PubMed PMID: 34755522; Editor’s Choice article week of November 9, 2021.
Bello HR, Sekhar A, Filice RW, Radmard AR, Davarpanah AH. Pancreaticoduodenal groove: Spectrum of disease and imaging features. Radiographics; Published online May 20, 2022. doi: 10.1148/rg.210168
Filice RW, Stein A, Pan I, Shih G. Federated deep learning to more reliably detect body part for hanging protocols, relevant priors, and workflow optimization. J Digit Imaging. 2022 Apr;35(2):335-9. doi: 10.1007/s10278-021-00547-x PubMed PMID: 35018541; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8921417
Filice RW, Kahn CE. Biomedical ontologies to guide AI development in radiology. J Digit Imaging. 2021 Dec;34(6):1331-1341. doi: 10.1007/s10278-021-00527-1 PubMed PMID: 34724143; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8669056
Eng D, Chute C, Khandwala N, Rajpurkar P, Long J, Shliefer S, Khalaf M, Sandu AT, Rodriguez F, Maron DJ, Seyyedi S, Marin D, Golub I, Budoff M, Kitamura F, Takahashi MS, Filice RW, Shah R, Mongan J, Kallianos K, Langlotz CP, Lungren MP, Ng AY, Patel BN. Automated coronary calcium scoring using deep learning with multicenter external validation. NPJ Digit Med. 2021 Jun 1;4(1):88. doi: 10.1038/s41746-021-00460-1 PubMed PMID 34075194; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8169744
Filice RW, Mongan J, Kohli MD. Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Systems to Guide Purchasing Decisions. J Am Coll Radiol. 2020 Nov;17(11):1405-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2020.09.045 PubMed PMID: 33035503
Sotudeh S, Goharian N, Filice RW. Attend to medical ontologies: content selection for clinical abstractive summarization. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020; arXiv:2005.00163 [cs.CL] 1 May 2020.
Patil S, Yacoub JH, Geng X, Ascher SM, Filice RW. Reporting in the era of patient centered care. How can we improve readability? J Digit Imaging. 2021 Jul;34(2):367-73. doi: 10.1007/s10278-021-00439-0 PubMed PMID: 33742332
Eng DK, Khandwala NB, Long J, Fefferman NR, Lala SV, Strubel NA, Milla SS, Filice RW, Sharp SE, Towbin AJ, Francavilla ML, Kaplan SL, Ecklund K, Prabhu SP, Dillon BJ, Everist BM, Anton CG, Bittman ME, Dennis R, Larson DB, Seekins JM, Silva CT, Zandieh AR, Langlotz CP, Lungren MP, Halabi SS. Artificial intelligence algorithm improves radiologist performance in skeletal age assessment: a prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial. Radiology. 2021 Dec;301(3):692-9. doi: 10.1148/ radiol.2021204021
Talati IA, Choi HH, Filice RW. Cinebot: creation of movies and animated GIFs directly from PACS – efficiency in presentation and education. J Digit Imaging. 2020 Jun;33(3):792-6. doi: 10.1007/s10278-020-00325-1 PubMed PMID: 32026219; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7256158
Choi HH, Filice RW. Streamlining radiologist workflow for multidisciplinary conferences: a web-based system to represent radiology. J Digit Imaging, online Jan, 2020. doi: 10.1007/s10278-019-00317-w PubMed PMID: 31898038
Filice RW, Stein A, Wu CC, Arteaga VA, Borstelmann S, Gaddikeri R, Galperin-Aizenberg M, Gill RR, Godoy MC, Hobbs SB, Jeudy J, Lakhani PC, Laroia A, Nayak SM, Parekh MR, Prasanna P, Shah P, Vummudi D, Yaddanapudi K,Shih G. Crowdsourcing pneumothorax annotations using machine learning annotations on the NIH chest x-ray dataset. J Digit Imaging. 2020 Apr;33(2):490-6. doi: 10.1007/s10278-019-00299-9 PubMed PMID: 31768897; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7165201
Makeeva V, Vey B, Cook TS, Nagy P, Filice RW, Wang KC, Balthazar P, Harri P, Safdar NM. Imaging informatics fellowship curriculum: a survey to identify core topics and potential inter-program areas of collaboration. J Digit Imaging. 2020 Apr;33(2):547-53. doi: 10.1007/s10278-019-00292-2. PubMed PMID: 31713070; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7165230
MacAvaney S, Cohan A, Goharian N, Filice RW. Ranking significant discrepancies in clinical reports. Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval 2020; arXiv:2001.06674 [cs.IR] 18 Jan 2020.
Filice RW. Radiology-pathology correlation to facilitate peer learning: an overview including recent artificial intelligence methods. J Am Coll Radiol. 2019 Sep;16(9 Pt B):1279-85. doi: 10.1016/jacr.2019.05.010 PubMed PMID: 31492406
Filice RW. Deep learning language modeling approach for automated, personalized, and iterative radiology-pathology correlation. J Am Coll Radiol. 2019 Jun;S1546-1440(19)30590-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2019.05.007 PubMed PMID: 31173746
Filice R. Lens identification to prevent radiation induced cataracts using convolutional neural networks. J Digit Imaging. 2019 Aug;32(4):644-650. doi: 10.1007/s10278-019-00242-y PubMed PMID: 31222558; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6646648
MacAvaney S, Sotudeh Gharebagh S, Cohan A, Goharian N, Talati I, Filice R. Ontology-aware clinical abstractive summarization. Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2019; arXiv:1905.05818 [cs.CL] 14 May 2019.
Filice RW, Frantz SK. Effectiveness of deep learning algorithms to determine laterality in radiographs. J Digit Imaging. 2019 Aug;32(4):656-664. doi:10.1007/s10278-019-00226-y. PubMed PMID: 31065828; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6646614
Vey BL, Cook TS, Nagy P, Bruce RJ, Filice RW, Wang KC, Safdar NM. A survey of imaging informatics fellowships and their curricula: current state assessment. J Digit Imaging. 2019 Feb;32(1):91-6. doi:10.1007/s10278-018-0147-y PubMed PMID: 30374655; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6382631
Finke MT, Filice RW, Kahn CE. Integrating ontologies of human diseases, phenotypes, and radiological diagnosis. JAMIA. 2019 Feb;26(2):149-54. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocy161 PubMed PMID: 30706210; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6456639
Talati IA, Krishnan P, Filice RW. Developing Deeper Radiology Exam Insight to Optimize MRI Workflow and Patient Experience. J Digit Imaging. 2019 Oct;32(5):865-869. doi: 10.1007/s10278-018-0170-z PubMed PMID: 30623272; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6737104
Filice RW, Kahn CE. Integrating an ontology of radiology differential diagnosis with ICD-10-CM, RadLex, and SNOMED-CT. J Digit Imaging. 2019 Apr;32(2):206-210. doi: 10.1007/s10278-019-00186-3. PubMed PMID: 30706210; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6456639
Sushma J, Giaccone G, Filice R, Kramer J, Subramaniam DS. Dramatic response to sequential BRAF inhibition in BRAFV600E mutant metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. JCO Precision Oncology. Published online. 2018 Nov. doi: 10.1200/PO.18.00219
Kelahan LC, Fong A, Blumenthal J, Kandaswamy S, Ratwani, RM, Filice RW. The radiologist’s gaze: mapping three-dimensional visual search in computed tomography of the abdomen and pelvis. J Digit Imaging. 2019 Apr;32(2):234-240. doi: 10.1007/s10278-018-0121-8. PubMed PMID: 30291478; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6456635
Wynn RM, Howe JL, Kelahan LC, Fong A, Filice RW, Ratwani RM. The impact of interruptions on chest radiograph interpretation: effects on reading time and accuracy. Acad Radiol. 2018 Dec;25(12):1515-20. doi:10.1016/j.acra.2018.03.016 PubMed PMID: 29605562
Choi HH, Clark J, Jay AK, Filice RW. Minimizing Barriers in Learning for On-Call Radiology Residents: End-to-end Web-based Resident Feedback System. J Digit Imaging. 2018 Feb;31(1):117-23. doi:10.1007/s10278-017-0015-1. PubMed PMID: 28840360; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5788821
Ross SL, Ascher SM, Somwaru AS, Filice R. Quantifying Language in CT Reports Before and After Instituting Structured Reports. J Am Coll Radiol. 2017 Nov;14(11):1444-50. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2017.04.032 PubMed PMID: 28633922
Kelahan L, Kalaria A, Filice R. PathBot: A Radiology-Pathology Correlation Dashboard. J Digit Imaging. 2017 Dec;30(6):681-6. doi: 10.1007/s10278-017-9969-2. PubMed PMID: 28374195; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5681468
Filice R. Who you gonna call? Automatically connecting radiologists to the right clinician. J Digit Imaging. 2017 Oct;30(5):595-601. doi: 10.1007/s10278-017-9962-9. PubMed PMID: 28224380; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5603439
Kohli M, Prevedello LM, Filice RW, Geis JR. Considerations for implementing machine learning in radiology practice and research. Am J Roentgenol. 2017 Apr;208(4):754-60. doi: 10.2214/AJR.16.17224. PubMed PMID: 28125274
Kelahan L, Fong A, Ratwani R, Filice RW. Call Case Dashboard: Tracking R1 Exposure to High Acuity Cases Using Natural Language Processing. J Am Coll Radiol. 2016 Aug;13(8):988-91. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2016.03.012. Epub 2016 May 7. PubMed PMID: 27162046
Filice RW. Notification System to Address PACS Filter Deficiencies and Ensure Timely Interpretation of Neonatal Exams. J Digit Imaging. 2016 Aug;29(4):425-427. doi: 10.1007/s10278-016-9860-6. Epub 2016 Jan 19. PubMed PMID: 26785974; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4942387
Morrison J, Hostetter J, Aggarwal A, Filice RW. Constructing a Computer Aided Differential Diagnosis Engine from Open-Source APIs. J Digit Imaging. 2016 Dec;29(6):654-7. doi: 10.1007/s10278-016-9874-0. Epub 2016 Mar 8. PubMed PMID: 26957291; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5114224
Kalaria AD, Filice RW. Comparison-Bot: An Automated Preliminary-Final Report Comparison System. J Digit Imaging. 2016 Jun;29(3):325-30. doi: 10.1007/s10278-015-9840-2. PubMed PMID: 26537931; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4879030
Duggirala HJ, Tonning JM, Smith E, Bright RA, Bajer JD, Ball R, Bell C, Bright-Ponte SJ, Botsis T, Bouri K, Boyer M, Burkhart K, Condrey GS, Chen JJ, Chirtel S, Filice RW, Francis H, Jiang H, Levine J, Martin D, Oladipo T, O’Neill R, Palmer LAM, Paredes A, Rochester G, Sholtes D, Wong HL, Xu Z, Szarfman A, Kass-Hout T. Use of Data Mining at the Food and Drug Administration. JAMIA. 2016 Mar;23(2):428-34. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv063. Epub 2015 Jul 23. PubMed PMID: 26209436
Minn MJ, Zandieh AR, Filice RW. Improving Radiology Report Quality by Rapidly Notifying Radiologist of Report Errors. J Digit Imaging. 2015 Aug;28(4):492-8. doi: 10.1007/s10278-015-9781-9. PubMed PMID: 25694167; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4501955
Kessler LG, Barnhart HX, Buckler AJ, Choudhury KR, Kondratovich MV, Toledano A, Guimaraes AR, Filice R, Zhang Z, Sullivan DC. The emerging science of quantitative imaging biomarkers terminology and definitions for scientific studies and regulatory submissions. Stat Methods Med Res. 2015 Feb;24(1):9-26. doi: 10.1177/0962280214537333. Epub 2014 Jun 11. PubMed PMID: 24919826
Freifeld CC, Brownstein JS, Menone CM, Bao Wenjie, Filice R, Kass-Hout T, Dasgupta N. Digital drug safety surveillance: monitoring pharmaceutical products in Twitter. Drug Saf. 2014 May;37(5):343-50. doi: 10.1007/s40264-014-0155-x. PubMed PMID: 24777653; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4013443
Harris M, Bhuvaneshwar K, Natarajan T, Sheahan L, Wang D, Tadesse MG, Shoulson I, Filice R, Steadman K, Madhavan S, Deeken J. Pharmacogenomic characterization of gemcitabine response – a framework for data integration to enable personalized medicine. Pharmacogenet Genomics. 2014 Feb;24(2):81-93. doi: 10.1097/FPC.0000000000000015. PubMed PMID: 24401833; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3888473
Anatol R, Bauer S, Epstein S, Filice R, Lauritsen K, Lee MH, Mansfield E, McMurry-Heath M, Milone J, Peña C, Pollack S, Zineh I. Continuing to strengthen FDA's science approach to emerging technologies. Nanomedicine. 2013 Jul;9(5):594-9. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2013.04.005. PubMed PMID: 23692697
Wang KC, Filice RW, Siegel EL, Nagy P, Philbin J. Five Levels of PACS Modularity: Integrating 3D and Other Advanced Visualization Tools. J Digit Imaging. 2011 Dec;24(6):1096-102. doi: 10.1007/s10278-011-9366-1. PubMed PMID: 21301923; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3222550
Wang KC, Filice RW, Eng J. DexNote: A learner-centric tool for radiology knowledge tracking. Am J Roentgenol. 2009 Aug;193(2):W118-21. doi: 10.2214/AJR.08.1451. PubMed PMID: 19620412
Kalia V, Obray R, Filice R, Fayad LM, Murphy K, Carrino JA. Functional joint imaging using 256-MDCT: Technical feasibility. Am J Roentgenol. 2009 Jun;192(6):W295-9. doi: 10.2214/AJR.08.1793. PubMed PMID: 19457792
Jacene HA, Filice R, Kasecamp W, Wahl RL. 18FDG PET/CT for monitoring the response of lymphoma to radioimmunotherapy. J Nucl Med. 2009 Jan;50(1):8-17. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.108.055376. Epub 2008 Dec 17. PubMed PMID: 19091903
Jacene HA, Filice R, Kasecamp W, Wahl RL. Comparison of 90Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan and 131Itositumomab in clinical practice. J Nucl Med. 2007 Nov;48(11):1767-76. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.107.043489. Epub 2007 Oct 17. PubMed PMID: 17942813
Filice R, Lima JA, Bluemke DA. Subclinical disease detection: advanced imaging applications. Top Magn Reson Imaging. 2007 Oct;18(5):339-48. doi: 10.1097/rmr.0b013e31815a0e6e. PubMed PMID: 18025988
Obray R, Filice R, Beall D. MR imaging and osseous spinal intervention and intervertebral disk intervention. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2007 May;15(2):257-71. doi: 10.1016/j.mric.2007.05.001. PubMed PMID: 17599643