Fred Prior
Distinguished Professor
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
faculty
Department Chairs, College of Medicine
Research Areas
Is this your profile? Verify and claim your profile
Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Fred Prior's research centers on the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning within medical imaging, with a particular focus on cancer and neurological disorders. He has published extensively on topics such as data preparation for AI in medical imaging, developing guidelines for trustworthy AI in healthcare, and systematic reviews of machine learning applications in intensive care units.
Prior's work is supported by significant federal funding. He is the Principal Investigator on a $1.59 million NIH/NCI grant focused on the sustainment and scalability of the Cancer Imaging Archive for precision medicine. Additionally, he is a Co-PI on a $7.88 million NIH/NIH Office of the Director grant for the Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the ECHO IDea States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network.
His academic leadership roles include serving as a Co-Chair for an NIH Neuroscience and Ophthalmic Imaging Technologies Study Section, membership on the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Senior Leaders committee, and leadership of the Biomedical Informatics Core at the Translational Research Institute. Prior has an h-index of 36, with over 221 publications and 13,516 citations. He collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Linda Larson-Prior, Aaron S. Kemp, Lakshmi Pillai, and Tuhin Virmani.
Research Overview
Member/Co-Chair NIH Neuroscience and Ophthalmic Imaging Technologies Study Section Member of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Senior Leaders committee Member of the COM Research Council Member of the Research Technology Executive Committee Member, Electronic Data Warehouse Working and Executive Governance Groups Member, Translational Research Institute Leadership Council Leader, Biomedical Informatics Core, Translational Research Institute Special Issue Editor, Journal of Biomedical Informatics Reviewing Editor, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Metrics
- h-index: 36
- Publications: 221
- Citations: 13,516
Selected Publications
- Enabling global image data sharing in the life sciences (2025) DOI
- A large-scale multicenter breast cancer DCE-MRI benchmark dataset with expert segmentations (2025) DOI
- Pre-trained convolutional neural networks identify Parkinson’s disease from spectrogram images of voice samples (2025) DOI
- FUTURE-AI: international consensus guideline for trustworthy and deployable artificial intelligence in healthcare (2025) DOI
- Environment scan of generative AI infrastructure for clinical and translational science (2025) DOI
- 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 (2024) DOI
- Documenting the de-identification process of clinical and imaging data for AI for health imaging projects (2024) DOI
- Feasibility of regional center telehealth visits utilizing a rural research network in people with Parkinson’s disease (2024) DOI
- New implementation of data standards for AI in oncology. Experience from the EuCanImage project (2024) DOI
- Privacy‐preserving record linkage across disparate institutions and datasets to enable a learning health system: The national <scp>COVID</scp> cohort collaborative (<scp>N3C</scp>) experience (2024) DOI
- A machine learning method to process voice samples for identification of Parkinson’s disease (2023) DOI
- Vitamin D Oral Replacement in Children With Obesity Related Asthma: <scp>VDORA1</scp> Randomized Clinical Trial (2023) DOI
- The Importance of Quality Assurance in Radiation Oncology Clinical Trials (2023) DOI
- Gait Declines Differentially in, and Improves Prediction of, People with Parkinson’s Disease Converting to a Freezing of Gait Phenotype (2023) DOI
- Emerging Value-Based Radiology in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (2023) DOI
Federal Grants 2 $9,468,038 total
Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network
Grants & Funding
- TCIA Sustainment and Scalability - Platforms for Quantitative Imaging Informatics in Precision Medicine - Year 4 - Continuation NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute Principal Investigator
- AcetaSTAT Validation and Commercialization NIH/Nat. Inst. of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases - Pass Through: Acetaminophen Toxicity Diagnostics, LLC Principal Investigator
- No FP attached Kaggle Inc. Principal Investigator
- Pediatric Head Models for Improved Imaging of Neurological Development NIH/National Institutes of Health - Pass Through: Electrical Geodesics, Inc. Co-Investigator
- Integrated Versus Referral Care for Complex Psychiatric Disorders in Rural FQHCs - Continuation - Continuation - Continuation - Continuation Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute - Pass Through: University of Washington Principal Investigator
- No FP attached Kaggle Inc. Principal Investigator
- Robust and Trusted Data Analytics (DART) National Science Foundation - Pass Through: Arkansas Economic Development Commission Principal Investigator
- 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 - Continuation Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute - Pass Through: Washington University Principal Investigator
Collaborators
Researchers in the database who share publications
Similar Researchers
Based on overlapping research topics