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Papers

(The median citation count of Radiologia Medica is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 outbreak in Italy: experimental chest X-ray scoring system for quantifying and monitoring disease progression	267
Chest X-ray in new Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection: findings and correlation with clinical outcome	204
A deep look into radiomics	175
Chest CT features of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia: key points for radiologists	147
Radiographic severity index in COVID-19 pneumonia: relationship to age and sex in 783 Italian patients	111
Delta radiomics: a systematic review	102
Use of CT and artificial intelligence in suspected or COVID-19 positive patients: statement of the Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology	100
Artificial intelligence: radiologists’ expectations and opinions gleaned from a nationwide online survey	99
Artificial intelligence to codify lung CT in Covid-19 patients	88
Proposal of a low-dose, long-pitch, dual-source chest CT protocol on third-generation dual-source CT using a tin filter for spectral shaping at 100 kVp for CoronaVirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients	86
CT-derived radiomic features to discriminate histologic characteristics of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors	70
A field strength independent MR radiomics model to predict pathological complete response in locally advanced rectal cancer	66
Interventional Radiology ex-machina: impact of Artificial Intelligence on practice	63
Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in oncology: how we do it	61
The lingering manifestations of COVID-19 during and after convalescence: update on long-term pulmonary consequences of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)	61
Radiomic features for prostate cancer grade detection through formal verification	54
The lung ultrasound: facts or artifacts? In the era of COVID-19 outbreak	52
Artificial intelligence in cardiac radiology	51
Computed tomography (CT)-derived radiomic features differentiate prevascular mediastinum masses as thymic neoplasms versus lymphomas	51
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and its differential diagnosis at MRI: how radiologist should assess MR features	46
Radiomics in breast MRI: current progress toward clinical application in the era of artificial intelligence	45
Advanced CT techniques for assessing hepatocellular carcinoma	45
CT texture analysis for prediction of EGFR mutational status and ALK rearrangement in patients with non-small cell lung cancer	44
Computed tomography-based radiomics approach in pancreatic tumors characterization	44
MRI T2-weighted sequences-based texture analysis (TA) as a predictor of response to neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy (nCRT) in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC)	43

Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine neoplasms (GI-NENs): hot topics in morphological, functional, and prognostic imaging	42
Validation of the standardized index of shape tool to analyze DCE-MRI data in the assessment of neo-adjuvant therapy in locally advanced rectal cancer	41
Quantitative Chest CT analysis in discriminating COVID-19 from non-COVID-19 patients	39
Myocarditis: imaging up to date	38
COVID-19 pneumonia: computer-aided quantification of healthy lung parenchyma, emphysema, ground glass and consolidation on chest computed tomography (CT)	37
Structured reporting of computed tomography in the staging of colon cancer: a Delphi consensus proposal	37
Clinical and laboratory data, radiological structured report findings and quantitative evaluation of lung involvement on baseline chest CT in COVID-19 patients to predict prognosis	37
CT-guided percutaneous drainage of abdominopelvic collections: a pictorial essay	36
Radiomic analysis of the optic nerve at the first episode of acute optic neuritis: an indicator of optic nerve pathology and a predictor of visual recovery?	36
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), influenza, and COVID-19, beyond the lungs: a review article	35
Chest CT in patients with a moderate or high pretest probability of COVID-19 and negative swab	35
Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) for cancer screening: recommendations for use	35
Baseline chest X-ray in coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) patients: association with clinical and laboratory data	35
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radiomics of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC): a comparison of predictive performance of multiple classifiers modeling to identify cervical lymph node metastases before	35
Breast imaging and cancer diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic: recommendations from the Italian College of Breast Radiologists by SIRM	35
Dual-energy CT quantification of fractional extracellular space in cirrhotic patients: comparison between early and delayed equilibrium phases and correlation with oesophageal varices	34
The sub-millisievert era in CTCA: the technical basis of the new radiation dose approach	34
Third-generation iterative reconstruction on a dual-source, high-pitch, low-dose chest CT protocol with tin filter for spectral shaping at 100 kV: a study on a small series of COVID-19 patients	33
Quantitative CT texture analysis in predicting PD-L1 expression in locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC patients	33
An update in musculoskeletal tumors: from quantitative imaging to radiomics	33
The current landscape of imaging recommendations in cardiovascular clinical guidelines: toward an imaging-guided precision medicine	32
Palliative radiotherapy indications during the COVID-19 pandemic and in future complex logistic settings: the NORMALITY model	31
Imaging of calcific tendinopathy around the shoulder: usual and unusual presentations and common pitfalls	31
Hepatic hemangiomas: the various imaging avatars and its mimickers	31
Deep vein thrombosis in COVID-19 patients in general wards: prevalence and association with clinical and laboratory variables	30
It’s not over until it’s over: the chameleonic behavior of COVID-19 over a six-day period	29
Combined dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion-weighted imaging to predict neoadjuvant chemotherapy effect in FIGO stage IB2–IIA2 cervical cancers	29
Cardiac MRI: technical basis	29
Chest X-ray in the emergency department during COVID-19 pandemic descending phase in Italy: correlation with patients’ outcome	29
Does restaging MRI radiomics analysis improve pathological complete response prediction in rectal cancer patients? A prognostic model development	29
Phosphaturic mesenchymal tumors: radiological aspects and suggested imaging pathway	29
Chest CT for early detection and management of coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a report of 314 patients admitted to Emergency Department with suspected pneumonia	29
Chest CT in the emergency department for suspected COVID-19 pneumonia	29
LI-RADS to categorize liver nodules in patients at risk of HCC: tool or a gadget in daily practice?	29
A comparative analysis between radiation dose intensification and conventional fractionation in neoadjuvant locally advanced rectal cancer: a monocentric prospective observational study	28
TIRADS, SRE and SWE in INDETERMINATE thyroid nodule characterization: Which has better diagnostic performance?	28
Acute pulmonary embolism in hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2-related pneumonia: multicentric experience from Italian endemic area	28
Factors affecting the response to Y-90 microsphere therapy in the cholangiocarcinoma patients	28
Shear wave elastography and transient elastography in HCV patients after direct-acting antivirals	27
Dosimetric analysis of the effects of a temporary tissue expander on the radiotherapy technique	27
Relationship between visceral adipose tissue and genetic mutations (VHL and KDM5C) in clear cell renal cell carcinoma	26
Appropriate use criteria for cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR): SIC—SIRM position paper part 1 (ischemic and congenital heart diseases, cardio-oncology, cardiac masses and heart transpla	26
Short fractionation radiotherapy for early prostate cancer in the time of COVID-19: long-term excellent outcomes from a multicenter Italian trial suggest a larger adoption in clinical practice	25
Radiological evaluation of fusion patterns after lateral lumbar interbody fusion: institutional case series	25
Correlation of CT radiomic features for GISTs with pathological classification and molecular subtypes: preliminary and monocentric experience	25
Radiological assessment of Peritoneal Cancer Index on preoperative CT in ovarian cancer is related to surgical outcome and survival	25
Radiomic analysis to predict local response in locally advanced pancreatic cancer treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy	25
Performance evaluation of a deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR) algorithm in “double low” chest CTA in children: a feasibility study	24
Automated breast volume scanner (ABVS) compared to handheld ultrasound (HHUS) and contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) in the early assessment of breast cancer during neoadjuvant chem	24
Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) in oncology: an Italian survey	24

Use of the COVID-19 Reporting and Data System (CO-RADS) classification and chest computed tomography involvement score (CT-IS) in COVID-19 pneumonia	24
The role of imaging in acute pancreatitis	24
Radiation dose reduction considerations and imaging patterns of ground glass opacities in coronavirus: risk of over exposure in computed tomography	23
Sclerotic changes of cavernous hemangioma in the cirrhotic liver: long-term follow-up using dynamic contrast-enhanced computed tomography	23
Morphological, dynamic and functional characteristics of liver pseudolesions and benign lesions	23
Tocilizumab effects in COVID-19 pneumonia: role of CT texture analysis in quantitative assessment of response to therapy	22
An experience-based review of HIFU in functional interventional neuroradiology: transcranial MRgFUS thalamotomy for treatment of tremor	21
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in restrictive cardiomyopathies	21
Automatic PI-RADS assignment by means of formal methods	21
Differentiation between infectious spondylodiscitis versus inflammatory or degenerative spinal changes: How can magnetic resonance imaging help the clinician?	21
Preparation of a radiology department in an Italian hospital dedicated to COVID-19 patients	21
Multimodality oncologic evaluation of superficial neck and facial lymph nodes	21
Radial Scar: a management dilemma	21
Inter-reader agreement of high-resolution computed tomography findings in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia: A multi-reader study	20
Bevacizumab in recurrent high-grade glioma: a single institution retrospective analysis on 92 patients	20
A snapshot on radiotherapy for head and neck cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: a survey of the Italian Association of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology (AIRO) head and neck working group	20
Stereotactic body radiotherapy for oligometastatic castration sensitive prostate cancer using 1.5 T MRI-Linac: preliminary data on feasibility and acute patient-reported outcomes	19
Endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke due to tandem lesions of the anterior cerebral circulation: a multicentric Italian observational study	19
Using new criteria to improve the differentiation between HCC and non-HCC malignancies: clinical practice and discussion in CEUS LI-RADS 2017	19
Chest CT texture-based radiomics analysis in differentiating COVID-19 from other interstitial pneumonia	19
Bone marrow magnetic resonance imaging: physiologic and pathologic findings that radiologist should know	19
Role of CT angiography in detecting acute pulmonary embolism associated with COVID-19 pneumonia	18
A non-invasive, automated diagnosis of Menière’s disease using radiomics and machine learning on conventional magnetic resonance imaging: A multicentric, case-controlled feasibility study	18
Impact of COVID-19 on workload burden of a complex radiotherapy facility	18
Noninvasive imaging of congenital cardiovascular defects	18
MR imaging of cerebral involvement of Rosai–Dorfman disease: a single-centre experience with review of the literature	18
Sequential chemo-hypofractionated RT versus concurrent standard CRT for locally advanced NSCLC: GRADE recommendation by the Italian Association of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology (AIRO)	18
Radiotherapy during COVID-19 pandemic. How to create a No fly zone: a Northern Italy experience	18
CT radiomic models to distinguish COVID-19 pneumonia from other interstitial pneumonias	18
CCTA in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease	17
Complicated pyelonephritis associated with chronic renal stone disease	17
SIRM–SIC appropriateness criteria for the use of Cardiac Computed Tomography. Part 1: Congenital heart diseases, primary prevention, risk assessment before surgery, suspected CAD in symptomatic patien	17
The role of diffusion-weighted and dynamic contrast enhancement perfusion-weighted imaging in the evaluation of salivary glands neoplasms	17
Quantitative bone marrow magnetic resonance imaging through apparent diffusion coefficient and fat fraction in multiple myeloma patients	17
Tumor grade estımatıon of clear cell and papıllary renal cell carcınomas usıng contrast-enhanced MDCT and FSE T2 weıghted MR ımagıng: radıology-pathology correlatıon	17
Non-contrast magnetic resonance lymphography (NCMRL) in cancer-related secondary lymphedema: acquisition technique and imaging findings	17
Volumetric histograms-based analysis of apparent diffusion coefficients and standard uptake values for the assessment of pediatric sarcoma at staging: preliminary results of a PET/MRI study	17
Cardiac magnetic resonance in hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies	17
Effects of different levels of CT iterative reconstruction on low-contrast detectability and radiation dose in patients of different sizes: an anthropomorphic phantom study	17
A non-surgical COMBO-therapy approach for locally advanced unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma: preliminary results of a prospective study	17
Radiological management of COVID-19: structure your diagnostic path to guarantee a safe path	17
Prediction of placenta accreta spectrum in patients with placenta previa using clinical risk factors, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging findings	17
Pneumothorax and pulmonary hemorrhage after CT-guided lung biopsy: incidence, clinical significance and correlation	17
Breast cancer patient perspective on opportunities and challenges of a genetic test aimed to predict radio-induced side effects before treatment: Analysis of the Italian branch of the REQUITE project	17
Preoperative assessment of extrathyroidal extension of papillary thyroid carcinomas by ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging: a comparative study	16
T2-mapping MRI evaluation of patellofemoral cartilage in patients submitted to intra-articular platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections	16
4D Flow when and how?	16
A preliminary study using spinal MRI-based radiomics to predict high-risk cytogenetic abnormalities in multiple myeloma	16
Identification of bone marrow edema of the knee: diagnostic accuracy of dual-energy CT in comparison with MRI	16
Direct percutaneous embolization of aneurysm sac: a safe and effective procedure to treat post-EVAR type II endoleaks	16
Outpatient Yttrium-90 microsphere radioembolization: assessment of radiation safety and quantification of post-treatment adverse events causing hospitalization	16
Dosimetric evaluation of left ventricle and left anterior descending artery in left breast radiotherapy	16
Role of MRI in early follow-up of patients with solid organ injuries: How and why we do it?	16
IVC filter retrieval: a multicenter proposal of two score systems to predict application of complex technique and procedural outcome	15
Do contrast-enhanced and advanced MRI sequences improve diagnostic accuracy for indeterminate lipomatous tumors?	15
Cross-sectional analysis of follow-up chest MRI and chest CT scans in patients previously affected by COVID-19	15
Advanced cardiac imaging in athlete’s heart: unravelling the grey zone between physiologic adaptation and pathology	15
Prognostic value of CT pulmonary angiography parameters in acute pulmonary embolism	15
Coronary artery disease (CAD) extension-derived risk stratification for asymptomatic diabetic patients: usefulness of low-dose coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) in detecting high-risk pr	15
Assessment of cerebrovascular disease with computed tomography in COVID-19 patients: correlation of a novel specific visual score with increased mortality risk	15
Pulmonary function in stereotactic body radiotherapy with helical tomotherapy for primary and metastatic lung lesions	15