Leland Pung
@PungLeland
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From the Lab of Patient Inspired Engineering @MayoClinic, a new class of biocompatible ionic liquid that can achieve durable embolization, deliver large drugs such as Nivolumab and achieve tissue ablation. Imagine single session chemical segmentectomy! https://t.co/2DL1xASDnc
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A catheter-directed ILE is bioengineered and tested in animal models of embolization, outperforming the clinically used embolic agents. ILE represents a new class of liquid embolic agents that can...
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Wow Just read perhaps the greatest article about a doctors’ diagnostic skills Not in the medical literature, but in an economics journal! If you think about diagnosis, follow along It won’t disappoint @RogueRad
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The fact that most individual neurons are uninterpretable presents a serious roadblock to a mechanistic understanding of language models. We demonstrate a method for decomposing groups of neurons into interpretable features with the potential to move past that roadblock.
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⚡️Excited to share our new @NatureMedicine paper where we used Twitter to build a vision-language foundation #AI for #pathology
https://t.co/3tsoetclAJ We curated >100K public Twitter threads w/ medical images+text to create PLIP for semantic search and 0-shot pred. All our
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Electronic medical payments were supposed to save doctors billions and benefit patients. Instead, payment processors convinced a federal agency that they were allowed to charge fees to doctors and pocket the profits.
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A powerful lobbyist convinced a federal agency that doctors can be forced to pay fees on money that health insurers owe them. Big companies rake in profits while doctors are saddled with yet another...
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A mind-blowing paper has come out today in @Nature In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" ( https://t.co/CNDeaZUmYd). Today, a group of scientists from
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A dream come true and incredible thanks to amazing mentors! @JonMartinMD @WPabonRamosMD @charlesykimMD
Congrats to the newest @DukeIR residents!! #MatchDay #Match2023 Including @DukeMedSchool star @PungLeland Welcome to @DukeRadiology @_TrevorShull @KellyvonBeck1
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This is just like that time in Muppets Take Manhattan when the Muppets, after unsuccessfully attempting to take Manhattan, split up and leave Manhattan.
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Thanks so much! Really excited to have been a part of the project and the opportunity to work with an amazing team!
Thank you! Enjoyed working with this talented team: @PungLeland @lance_okekemd @JuliaLMarcus @douglaskrakower @roofshotsBalu @MarkSendak and others!
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If I throw my paper into a forest, I can claim on my CV that I have submitted to Nature
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We’re all just living in this Berkeley student’s universe
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You're doing data science all wrong. Here are 5 tools every data scientist needs to be using, a 🧵:
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Causal Machine Learning (CML) is exploding 💥 as a research direction. Here are a few VERY recent perspectives/surveys/reviews on the topic that you MUST check out for being on top of the literature! A thread 🧵
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The @SIRspecialists White Paper on #AI in #irad was published today in @JVIRmedia, sharing expert consensus and ranked future research priorities for our field. https://t.co/iezjgJPDnB
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This paper by @duke_dair's @MazurowskiPhD and colleagues describes the development of the Artificial Intelligence–optimized Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (AI TI-RADS), an automated risk stratification system of thyroid nodules. (1/2)
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I became a proponent of Evidence Based Medicine in the late 1980s after reading Sackett, Fletcher, et al. I still am. But note that evidence based medicine without expertise, clinical acumen, or judgment is empty. To be a good doctor you need them all, and empathy. #MedTwitter
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Was there any impact of universal masking on port catheter infections? Coming up today @DukeIR #SIRBOS22 @DukeRadiology medical student @PungLeland presents @charlesykimMD @WPabonRamosMD @BClineMD @AlanAlperMD @nbefera @SIRspecialists #SIR22BOS
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I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out) (long 🧵)
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