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riahi

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About riahi

Assistant Professor in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.

My academic interest is applications, validation, and deployment of machine learning to clinical radiology in the context of Radiology/Operations/IT deployments.

MD/Residency/Fellowship from Harvard Medical School.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48718985

    You can see it in just this PDF report. It's multiple things. It never shows the subscapularis in the way that people actually look the tendon. It hyper fixates on the axial when I…

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    Comment #48541635

    Any but never connect it to the internet and use an appletv

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    Comment #45120277

    Because they are disingenuous in their “just asking questions”. They don’t want to vaccinate due to literal decades of propaganda campaigns turning anti vaccination into a tribal i…

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    Comment #45027122

    Which party was in power when 2008 happened?

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    Comment #43701168

    This data is from 2006. Over 20 years, there has been substantial progress in CT radiation reduction through model-based iterative reconstruction and now ML-assisted reconstruction…

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    Comment #43369820

    It is. Their editor in chief sanewashed trump out of spite because Biden would not take an interview with them. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/25/new-york-t...

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    Comment #43237587

    I had no shop class in my middle school years 99-2002 but technical theater is the closest thing that may still sneakily exist in many schools. I learned basic carpentry and electr…

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    Comment #42959165

    Man Elon himself said his plan is to crash the economy. When people tell you who they are, listen! https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

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    Comment #42732381

    RE horizontal - there is a ribbon cable that can literally fracture which causes the Zr and Zl buttons to quit working which only really manifests when trying to use 1 joycon horiz…

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    Comment #42087411

    Strictly speaking, phenylphrine works when it’s injected. It is approved and used every day for this indication in the service of general anesthesia. However, the oral bioavailabil…

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    Comment #41703399

    Nit: isn’t “playing” itself “nouning the verb” via a gerund / participle construct? I actually am not sure of the subtleties on this grammatical point.

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    Comment #41692301

    This sounds like they are somehow identifying the user and querying theworknumber. You can get a ton from a worknumber query.

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    Comment #41046150

    It’s because oral minoxidil requires a ramp period and some people can become symptomatic. If you browse Reddit or other forum threads about it, look for a discussion on “sides”. T…

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    Comment #40729879

    The argument I’ve seen is that management of these companies is heavily invested in commercial real estate themselves, so corporate management has a conflict of interest in RTO in …

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    Comment #40501156

    Agree. Also an MD. My own personal experience with deceased donor transplantation is the pre-donor screening imaging to make sure there’s not a surprise cancer hiding for the recip…

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    Comment #40282366

    For a pure cognitive specialty, sure. But watch out if they want to do any procedures outside of a hospital. The capital / regulatory heavy specialties are getting PE-roll-upped an…

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    Comment #40282130

    I’ll actually push back against this narrative. A large problem is that people are coming out with insurmountable debt burdens from professional school and are simply unable to bal…

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    Comment #40257774

    > They just call out the surgery in an attempt to claim that with a tubal ligation, talc should be blocked from moving up the fallopian tubes. They don't even realize they contradi…

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    Comment #40246507

    The peritoneal cavity and the pleural cavity have very similar linings. Talc introduced into the peritoneum is similarly inflammatory and has been known since at least 1943: https:…

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    Comment #40242108

    Talc is used medically as a treatment for recurrent pleural effusions. It is introduced into the pleural space and triggers an intensely inflammatory reaction which more or less fu…

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    Comment #40082425

    Sometimes we have the clinical context, usually if practicing in a large hospital system with an integrated EMR. It's not usually so neatly summarized though; maybe if we are lucky…

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    Comment #40079101

    Tough case. Adrenal adenomas are common incidental findings. ~15% are hormonally active, which means the vast majority are not. As a radiologist, I sometimes wonder about whether I…

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    Comment #40078056

    Did you have a pheochromocytoma or just a hormonal active adrenal adenoma? Pheos don’t typically make aldosterone. They tend to make epinephrine and derivatives. Different cell lin…

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    Comment #40036170

    It describes almost every role in the field of medicine.

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    Comment #39852672

    I don’t think it’s heating. I think it’s PNS because my leg will periodically twitch which I can time with the pulse sequence. I also have some small ACL reconstruction hardware in…