Research and Scholarship

Interests

• X-ray computed tomography

• Image quality assessment

• Dose optimization

• Iterative reconstruction algorithms

• Observer models

• Phantom design

• Virtual lesion modeling

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Google Scholar Profile

Scholars@Duke Profile

1. N Alsaihati, F Ria, J. B. Solomon, A Ding, D Frush, E Samei, "Making CT Dose Monitoring Meaningful: Augmenting Dose with Imaging Quality" Tomography 9 (2) 798-809 (2023).

2. P. Lyu, N. Liu, B. Harrawood, J. B. Solomon, H. Wang, Y. Chen, F. Rigiroli, Y. Ding, F. R. Schwartz, H. Jiang, C. Lowry, L. Wang, E. Samei, J. Gao, D. Marin, "Is it possible to use low-dose deep learning reconstruction for the detection of liver metastases on CT routinely?" European Radiology (2022).

3. D. J. Lorenzana, J. B. Solomon, R. J. French, E. McCrum, F. Jonkergouw, O. A. Anakwenze, T. Lassiter, E. Samei, C. S. Klifto, "Comparison of Simulated Low-Dose and Conventional-Dose CT for Preoperative Planning in Shoulder Arthroplasty" Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (2022). 

4. T. B. Smith, E. Abadi, T. J. Sauer, W. Fu, J. B. Solomon, E. Samei "Development and validation of an automated methodology to assess perceptual in vivo noise texture in liver CT" Journal of Medical Imaging (2021).

5. C. A. Green, J. B. Solomon, K. J. Ruchala, E. Samei "Design and implementation of a practical quality control program for dual‐energy CT" Journal of applied clinical medical physics (2021).

6. J. Hoye, T. Smith, E. Abadi, J. B. Solomon, E. Samei "Correction for Systematic Bias in Radiomics Measurements Due to Variation in Imaging Protocols" Academic Radiology (2021).

7. P. Lyu, B. Neely, J. B. Solomon, F. Rigiroli, Y. Ding, F. R. Schwartz, B. Thomsen, C. Lowry, E. Samei, D. Marin "Effect of deep learning image reconstruction in the prediction of resectability of pancreatic cancer: Diagnostic performance and reader confidence" European Radiology (2021). 

8. Y. Ding, D. Marin, F. Vernuccio, F. Gonzalez, H. V. Williamson, H. Becker, B. H. Patel, J. B. Solomon, J. C. Ramirez-Giraldo, E. Samei, R. C. Nelson, M. Meyer, "Variability of quantitative measurements of metastatic liver lesions: a multi-radiation-dose-level and multi-reader comparison" Abdominal Radiology (2021).

9. F. R. Schwartz, K. S. Iliffe, A. Somers, B. Stone, T. A Jaffe, J. B. Solomon, L. M. Hurwitz-Koweek, "Optimizing Identification of Power Injectable Ports on the Scout Images for Multidetector Computed Tomography Procedures. "Journal of computer assisted tomography (2021).

10. J. B. Solomon, L. Ebner, A. Christe, A. Peters, J, Munz, L. Löbelenz, J. Klaus, T. Richards, E. Samei, J. E. Roos, "Minimum perceivable size difference: how well can radiologists visually detect a change in lung nodule size from CT images?" European Radiology (2021).

11. J. R Rajagopal, P. Sahbaee, F. Farhadi, J. B. Solomon, J. C. Ramirez-Giraldo, W. F. Pritchard, B. J. Wood, E. C. Jones, E. Samei, "A Clinically Driven Task-Based Comparison of Photon Counting and Conventional Energy Integrating CT for Soft Tissue, Vascular, and High-Resolution Tasks" IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences (2020).

12. J. R. Rajagopal, F. Farhadi, J. B. Solomon, P. Sahbaee, B. Saboury, W. F. Pritchard, E. C Jones, E. Samei, "Comparison of Low Dose Performance of Photon-Counting and Energy Integrating CT" Academic Radiology (2020).

13. J. Hoye, J. B. Solomon, T. J. Sauer, E. Samei, "Quantification of Minimum Detectable Difference in Radiomics Features Across Lesions and CT Imaging Conditions" Academic Radiology (2020).

14. J. B. Solomon, P. Lyu, D. Marin, E. Samei, "Noise and spatial resolution properties of a commercially available deep‐learning based CT reconstruction algorithm" Med Phys (2020).

15. Y. Ding, D. Marin, F. Vernuccio, F. Gonzalez, H. V. Williamson, H. Becker, B. N. Patel, J. B Solomon, J. C. Ramirez-Giraldo, E. Samei, R. C. Nelson, M. Meyer, "Variability of quantitative measurements of metastatic liver lesions: a multi-radiation-dose-level and multi-reader comparison," Abdominal Radiology (2020).

16. F, Ria, J. B. Solomon, J. M. Wilson, E. Samei, "Validation of TG 233 phantom methodology to characterize noise and dose in patient CT data" Med Phys (2020).

17. M. Meyer, J. Ronald, F. Vernuccio, R. C. Nelson, J. Ramirez-Giraldo, J. B. Solomon, B. N. Patel, E. Samei, D. Marin, "Reproducibility of CT Radiomic Features within the Same Patient: Influence of Radiation Dose and CT Reconstruction Settings," Radiology (2019). 

18. J. Ngo, J. B. Solomon, E. Samei, T. Richards, L. Ngo, A. Erkanli, B. Zhang, B. Allen, J. T. Davis, A. Devalapalli, R. Groller, D. Marin, C. M. Maxfield, V. Pamarthi, B. N. Patel,  G. R. Schooler, D. P. Frush, "A Simulation Paradigm for Evaluation of Subtle Liver Lesions at Pediatric CT: Performance and Confidence." Radiology: Imaging Cancer (2019)

19. E. Samei, D. Bakalyar, K. L. Boedeker, S. Brady, J. Fan, S. Leng, K. J. Meyers, L. M. Popescu, J. C. Ramirez-Giraldo, F. Ranallo, J. B. Solomon, J. Vaishnav, J. Wang, "Performance Evaluation of Computed Tomography Systems: The Report of AAPM Task Group 233." AAPM (2019).

20. A. Euler, J. B. Solomon, P. F. Fitzgerald, E. Samei, R. Nelson, "Can Realistic Liver Tissue Surrogates Accurately Quantify the Impact of Reduced-kV Imaging on Attenuation and Contrast of Parenchyma and Lesions?" Academic radiology 26 (5), 640-650 (2019)

21. F. Ria, T. T. Davis, J. B. Solomon, T. B. Smith, D. P. Frush, E. Samei, "Expanding the Concept of Diagnostic Reference Levels to Noise and Dose Reference Levels in CT." American Journal of Roentgenology, 1-6 (2019)

22. J. Hoye, J. B. Solomon, TJ Sauer, M. Robins, E. Samei, "Systematic analysis of bias and variability of morphologic features for lung lesions in computed tomography." Journal of Medical Imaging 6 (1), 013504 (2019).

23. E. Samei, J. Hoye, Y. Zheng, J. B. Solomon, D. Marin, "Design and fabrication of heterogeneous lung nodule phantoms for assessing the accuracy and variability of measured texture radiomics features in CT." Journal of Medical Imaging 6 (2), 021606 (2019).

24. M. Robins, J. B. Solomon, L. H. Koweek, J. Christensen, E. Samei, "Validation of lesion simulations in clinical CT data for anonymized chest and abdominal CT databases." Medical Physics (2019)

25. A. Euler, J. B. Solomon, A. E. Farjat, R. C. Nelson, E. Samei, D. Marin, "High-Pitch Wide-Coverage Fast-Kilovoltage-Switching Dual-Energy CT: Impact of Pitch on Noise, Spatial Resolution, and Iodine Quantification in a Phantom Study",  American Journal of Roentgenology, W1-W9 (2019)

26. T. B. Smith, G. D. Rubin, J. B. Solomon, B. Harrawood, K. R. Choudhury, E. Samei, "Local complexity metrics to quantify the effect of anatomical noise on detectability of lung nodules in chest CT imaging." Journal of Medical Imaging 5 (4), 045502 (2018)

27. A. Euler, J. B. Solomon, M. A. Mazurowski, E. Samei, R. C. Nelson, "How accurate and precise are CT based measurements of iodine concentration? A comparison of the minimum detectable concentration difference among single source and dual source dual energy CT in a phantom study." Eur Radiol (2018).

28. M. Robins, J. B. Solomon, T. Richards, E. Samei, "3D task‐transfer function representation of the signal transfer properties of low‐contrast lesions in FBP‐and iterative‐reconstructed CT." Med Phys (2018).

29. A. Ba, C. Abbey, J. Baek, M. Han, R. Bouwman, C. Balta, J. Brankov, F. Massanes, H. C. Gifford, I. Herandez-Giron, W. J. H. Veldkamp, D. Petrov, N. Marshall, F. W. Samuelson, R. Zeng, J. B. Solomon, E. Samei, P. Timberg, H. Fornvik, I. Reiser, L. Yu, H. Gong, F. Bochud, "Inter‐laboratory comparison of Channelized Hotelling Observer computation." Med Phys (2018)

30. A Euler, J. B. Solomon, D. Marin, R. Nelson, E. Samei, "A Third-Generation Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction Technique: Phantom Study of Image Noise, Spatial Resolution, Lesion Detectability, and Dose Reduction Potential." American Journal of Roentgenology: p. 1-8, (2018)

31. T. B. Smith, J. B. Solomon, E. Samei, "Estimating detectability index in vivo: development and validation of an automated methodology." J. Med. Imag. 5(3) 031403 (2017)

32. W. Fu, D. Marin, J.C. Ramirez-Giraldo, K. R. Choudhury, J. B. Solomon, C. Schabel, B. Patel, E. Samei, "Optimizing window settings for improved presentation of virtual monoenergetic images in dual-energy computed tomography." Med. Phys.. doi:10.1002/mp.12501 (2017)

33. Robins, M., J. B. Solomon, P. Sahbaee, M. Sedlmair, K. R. Choudhury, A. Pezeshk, B. Sahiner, E. Samei, "Techniques for virtual lung nodule insertion: volumetric and morphometric comparison of projection-based and image-based methods for quantitative CT." Phys Med Biol, 62, 7280 (2017)

34. J. B. Solomon, D. Marin, K. R. Choudhury, B. Patel, E. Samei, "Effect of Radiation Dose Reduction and Reconstruction Algorithm on Image Noise, Contrast, Resolution, and Detectability of Subtle Hypoattenuating Liver Lesions at Multidetector CT: Filtered Back Projection versus a Commercial Model–based Iterative Reconstruction Algorithm." Radiology (2017)

35. D. B. Bellini, J. C. Ramirez-Giraldo, A. Bibbey, J. B. Solomon, L. M. Hurwitz, A. Farjat, A. Mileto, E. Samei, D. Marin, "Dual-Source Single-Energy Multidetector CT Used to Obtain Multiple Radiation Exposure Levels within the Same Patient: Phantom Development and Clinical Validation." Radiology (2016)

36. J. B. Solomon, A. Ba, F. Bochum, E. Samei, "Comparison of low-contrast detectability between two CT reconstruction algorithms using voxel-based 3D printed textured phantoms." Med Phys 43, 6497 (2016)

37. N. Kiarashi, L. W. Nolte, J. Y. Lo, P. Segars, S. V. Ghate, J. B. Solomon, E. Samei, "Impact of breast structure on lesion detection in breast tomosynthesis, a simulation study." J. Med. Imag. 3(3), 035504 (2016).

38. J. B. Solomon, E. Samei, "Correlation between human detection accuracy and observer model-based image quality metrics in computed tomography." J. Med. Imag. 3(3), 035506 (2016).

39. J. B. Solomon, A. Mileto, R. Nelson, K.R. Corduroy, E. Samei, "Quantitative features of liver lesions, lung nodule and renal stones in multidetector-row CT examinations: Dependency on radiation dose and reconstruction algorithm." Radiology (2016).

40. J. B. Solomon, J. Wilson, E. Samei, "Characteristic image quality of a third-generation dual-source MDCT scanner, Noise, resolution, and detectability." Med Phys 42, 4941 (2015).

41. J. B. Solomon, A. Mileto, J.C. Ramirez-Giraldo, and E. Samei, "Diagnostic Performance of an Advanced Modeled Iterative Reconstruction Algorithm for Low-Contrast Detectability with a Third-Generation Dual-Source Multidetector CT Scanner: Potential for Radiation Dose Reduction in a Multireader Study." Radiology 275, 735 (2015).

42. B. Chen, J.C. Ramirez Giraldo, J. B. Solomon, and E. Samei, "Evaluating iterative reconstruction performance in computed tomography." Med Phys 41, 121913 (2014).

43. J. B. Solomon and E. Samei, "Quantum noise properties of CT images with anatomical textured backgrounds across reconstruction algorithms: FBP and SAFIRE." Med Phys 41, 091908 (2014).

44. J. B. Solomon and E. Samei, "A generic framework to simulate realistic lung, liver and renal pathologies in CT imaging." Phys Med Biol 59, 6637 (2014).

45. J. B. Solomon, X. Li, and E. Samei, "Relating noise to image quality indicators in CT examinations with tube current modulation." AJR Am J Roentgenol 200, 592 (2013).

46. J. B. Solomon, O. Christianson, and E. Samei, "Quantitative comparison of noise texture across CT scanners from different manufacturers." Med Phys 39, 6048 (2012).

Invited Talks

1. J.B. Solomon, “Automated assessment of image quality in clinical CT imaging”. SFPM Congress, France, June 2023.

2. J. B. Solomon, "CT physics review" Duke Radiology Review Course, April 2023.

3. J. B. Solomon, “The future of quality assurance in diagnostic imaging” SEAAPM Annual Symposium Feb 2023

4. J. B. Solomon, "Photon Counting CT: How it works and what is it good for?" Duke Radiology 22nd Annual Radiologic Technologist's Seminar, 2021.

5. J. B. Solomon, "The future of CT testing." educational course at AAPM Spring Clinical Meeting March 2019, Orlando, Fl.

6. J. B. Solomon, "Advances in CT: Technologies, Applications, Operations - CT Performance Optimization", educational course at RSNA, November 2018, Chicago. IL.

7. J. B. Solomon, "Role of Image Quality in Visual and Computational Perception", educational course at RSNA, November 2018, Chicago. IL.

8. J. B. Solomon, "CT Quality Control Course and Practicum", Clinica Alemana, Santiago Chile, 2017

9. J. B. Solomon, "The role of image quality in image perception", educational course at RSNA, November 2016, Chicago, IL.

Textbooks

1. Contributing author to "The Handbook of Medical Image Perception and Techniques", second edition, edited by Ehsan Samei and Elizabeth Krupinski

2. Contributing editor to "Hendee's Physics of Medical Imaging", fifth edition,  Ehsan Samei and Donald J. Peck

3. Contributing author to "Computed Tomography: Approaches, Applications, and Operations" edited by Ehsan Samei and Norbert Pelc.

Academic Documents

• J.B. Solomon, "Advanced techniques for image quality assessment of modern x-ray computed tomography systems.” PhD Dissertation, Duke University Graduate School, March 2016.

• J.B. Solomon, “Strategy for matching noise magnitude and texture across CT scanners of different makes and models,” Master Thesis, Duke University Graduate School, April 2012.