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David Alain Koff

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Professor EmeritusMedical ImagingMcMaster University

Research

Founder and director of MIIRCAM, the Medical Imaging Informatics Research Centre at McMaster, leading research projects on radiation risk, validation of technology and applications of Artificial Intelligence to medical imaging. Chair of Canada Safe Imaging, part of the international radiation safety campaigns. For the last 20 years, my research has centred on the electronic communication and workflow integration of medical images, and he developed the Canadian standards on lossy compression. His current research interests are about Artificial Intelligence for aggregation of imaging and medical data. He has been a co-founder of IHE Canada (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) and is a member of the IHE section of the Medical Informatics committee at RSNA. He is past co-Chair of the IHE International Radiology Planning Committee. Organizer of MIIT, the Medical Imaging Informatics and Teleradiology conference in Canada for the past 16 years. Teaching leadership in healthcare using the LEADS framework. Senior member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Canadian Association of Radiologists.

Research areas, by share of publications

Research areas are derived from OpenAlex topics of their publications.

54 publications.

01

Abdominal screening with ultrasound in children with suspected acute appendicitis

Dima R, Duggal S, Johnston K, Varga S, Kroman S, Patel J, Lee Y, Pimentel C, Hira A, Koff D

European Radiology2026Senior author
02

Making VFA Part of Standard Clinical DXA Assessment for Osteoporosis Care Recommendations From the International Working Group on DXA Best Practices

Lems WF, Ward KA, Lewiecki EM, Richmond B, Probyn L, Ali DS, Bock O, Compston J, Camacho P, Engelke K

Mayo Clinic proceedings20253 citations
03

A community-based task shifting program in 25 remote indigenous communities in Nunavut, Canada

Toffner G, Koff DA, Drossos A, Tsegmed U, Baumann MA

International Journal of Circumpolar Health20251 citations
04

Artificial Intelligence for Medicine

Ben-David S, Curigliano G, Koff D, Jereczek-Fossa BA, La Torre D, Pravettoni G

20245 citations
05

Chapter 18 Artificial intelligence in neurologic disease

McEvoy D, Zukotynski K, Black SE, Gaudet V, Koff D

20241 citationsSenior author
06

Artificial Intelligence for Medicine: An Applied Reference for Methods and Applications, 1st ed.

King PH

IEEE Pulse20241 citations
07

COVID-Net CT-2: Enhanced Deep Neural Networks for Detection of COVID-19 From Chest CT Images Through Bigger, More Diverse Learning

Gunraj H, Sabri A, Koff D, Wong A

Frontiers in Medicine2022115 citationsOpen Access
08

Stakeholders’ perspectives on the future of artificial intelligence in radiology: a scoping review

Yang L, Ene IC, Arabi Belaghi R, Koff D, Stein N, Santaguida PL

European Radiology2022113 citations
09

Image Exchange in Canada: Examples from the Province of Ontario

Nagels J, Wu S, Anderson D, Black K, Nikolajevas V, Koff D

Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine20224 citationsSenior author
10

Canada Safe Imaging: Promoting Radiation Safety in Healthcare Institutions

Koff D, Demeter S, Castelli J

Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal2022First author

Roles and appointments

  • past Chair, Radiology, McMaster University (2007 - 2020)
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