Fred Prior
Lab Director &
Research Associate
Professor of Radiology
Office: East Bldg. 3355
Tel: 314.747.0331
Fax: 314.362.6971
priorf@mir.wustl.edu
Mallinckrodt Institute
of Radiology
Washington University
Campus Box 8131
510 S. Kingshighway
St. Louis, MO 63110
Education
B.A., Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University - 1974
M.A., Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University - 1976
M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University - 1984
Ph.D., Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology - 1992
Background
Fred Prior, Ph.D. (CS), MS (BME), MA (Anthro), BA (Chem) is the Director of the Electronic Radiology Laboratory of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, and a Research Associate Professor of Radiology, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine. Dr. Prior has 25 years of R&D experience focused mostly on the design of advanced medical information management and communication technologies. He has worked in a variety of R&D environments ranging from Silicon Valley startups to major multi-national corporations in the US and Europe. He has held senior management positions with Imatron, Siemens Medical Systems, Philips Medical System, Cemax-Icon and Eastman Kodak and was formerly a member of the faculty of the departments of Radiology, Neuroscience and Bioengineering at Penn State University College of Medicine.
Research Interests
Dr. Prior's personal research is in the areas of research information management and image and signal processing. He is currently working on systems to manage a research imaging facility and approaches to information fusion and data mining. In addition, he has an active collaboration looking at new ways to analyze and visualize EEG data.
Affiliations/Professional Studies
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Senior Member
NCI CaBIG In Vivo Imaging Workspace
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Subject Matter Expert
Special Interest Group Chair
Open Source Strategy for Multi-Center Image Management
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Program Committee and Organizer
IEEE/NIH Multimodal Biomedical Systems Workshop
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Program Committee Member
National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC)
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External Advisory Board Member
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
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Associate Editor
US Department of Defense, Joint Medical Information Systems
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Technical Consultant for Information System Integration
Publications
- Lestrel PE, Kimbel WH, Prior FW, Fleischmann ML. Size and Shape of the Hominoid Distal Femur: Fourier Analysis. Am J Phy Anthro. 1997; 46(2):281-290.
- Prior FW, Nabijee KH. Information Management for Data Retrieval in a Picture Archive and Communication System. J Digit Imaging. 1989; 2(3):170-176.
- Prior FW, Niggenaber K, Khosravani S, Meredith G. Impact of Node Architecture on Network Performance. Proc SPIE. 1990; 1234:334-342.
- Glicksman R, Wilson D, Perry J, Prior FW. Architecture of a High Performance PACS Based on a Shared File System. Proc SPIE. 1992; 1654:158-168.
- Wirsz E, Prior FW, Meredith GA, Anderson KR. Hierarchical Rapid Modeling of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems Using LANNET II.5 and NETWORK II.5. Proc Winter Simulation Conference. 1992; 1356-1364.
- Prior FW, Specifying DICOM Compliance for Modality Interfaces. RadioGraphics. 1993; 13:1381-1388, 1993.
- Wilson DL, Glicksman RA, Prior FW. Image Management within a PACS. Proc SPIE. 1993; 1899:157-164.
- Moore SM, Prior FW, Blaine GJ, Channin DS, Kilday J. Measured Performance of DICOM-TCP and DICOM-ISO Implementations. Proc SPIE. 1994; 2165:359-367.
- Kenney RS, Channin DS, Guo H, Prior FW. Measurements of the Perceived Dynamic Range of a Medical Imaging Workstation. Proc SPIE. 1996; 2712:146-153.
- Lu, H, Prior FW, Larson-Prior LJ. Information processing in a cerebellar granule cell. In: Computational Neuroscience, Trends in Research, J.M. Bower (Ed), pp 115-121, Plenum Press, 1997.
- Bidgood WD, Horii SC, Prior FW, Van Syckle DE. Understanding and Using DICOM, the Medical Image Communication Standard. JAMIA. 1997; 4:199-212.
- Bidgood WD, alSafadi Y, Tucker M, Prior FW, Hagan G, Mattison JE. The Role of DICOM in an Evolving Healthcare Computing Environment: The Model is The Message. J Digit Imaging. 1998; 11(1):1-9.
- Lu H., Prior FW, Larson-Prior LJ. The Role of Feedforward and Feedback Inhibition on Frequency-Dependent Information Processing in a Cerebellar Granule Cell. In: Computational Neuroscience, Trends in Research, J.M. Bower (Ed), pp. 453-458, Plenum Press. 1998.
- Blume H, di Pierro MC, Goble J, Kenney RS, Lögdberg J, Prior FW, Goeringer F. Scaleability, Performance, and Fault-Tolerance of PACS Architectures. Proc SPIE. 1998; 3339: 112-126.
- Coates TD, Larson-Prior L, Wolpert S, Prior FW. Classification of Simple Stimuli Based on Detected Nerve Activity. IEEE Eng Med Biol Mag. 2003;22(1):64-76.
- Falk D, Hildeboldt C, Smith K, Morwood MJ, Sutikna T, Brown P, Brunsden B, Prior FW. The Brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis. Science 2005 O: 1109727.
- Clark KW, Gierada DS, Moore SM, Maffitt DR, Koppel P, Phillips SR, Prior FW. Creation of a CT Image Library for the Lung Screening Study of the National Lung Screening Trial, Journal of Digital Imaging, Jan 2006: 1-9, DOI 10.1007/s10278-006-0589-5, URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-006-0589-5.
- Mun, SK, Prior, F., Caramella D, Ratib O. Introduction to the Special Section on Image Management in the Healthcare Enterprise, IEEE Trans. Info. Tech. in Biomed. 2007; 11(1):1-6.
- Falk D, Hildeboldt C, Smith K, Morwood MJ, Sutikna T, Saptomo E, Imhof H, Seidler H, Prior FW. Brain Shape in Human Microcephalics and Homo floresiensis. PNAS 2007; 104(7):2513-2518, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606201104
- Prior F, Erickson B, Tarbox L. Open Source Software Projects of the caBIG™ In Vivo Imaging Workspace Software Special Interest Group. Journal of Digital Imaging, 2007; 20(supl 1):94-100, doi: 10.1007/s10278-007-9061-4
