Kristin Dwyer Source Confirmed

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Dr. Kristin Dwyer's work encompasses a range of clinical applications for ultrasound, with a particular emphasis on emergency and acute care settings. Her research spans venous thromboembolism diagnosis and management, radiation dose optimization in imaging, and innovative approaches to opioid use disorder treatment. Dwyer's contributions to the field include studies on focused cardiac ultrasound techniques, such as mitral annular plane systolic excursion (MAPSE) for detecting left ventricular dysfunction. She has also investigated the efficacy of different echocardiography views, comparing subxiphoid and parasternal approaches to assess image quality and acquisition time. Her work extends to the analysis of lung ultrasound videos, including the development of semi-supervised detection methods and contrastive self-supervised learning techniques for spatio-temporal analysis. Furthermore, Dwyer has examined the prevalence of ghost scans in point-of-care ultrasound for trauma patients.

Her primary research focus lies in advancing ultrasound techniques for improved clinical decision-making in acute and emergency medical scenarios.

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• h-index: 10
• Publications: 35
• Citations: 583