Steve Mason
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: Ejection fraction quantification from ungated chest CT by AI
Ejection fraction quantification from ungated chest CT by AI Open
Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is an important clinical metric, obtained by specialized imaging across the cardiac cycle. We present a novel AI approach to estimate LVEF from ungated chest CT. Using multicenter (11 sites) regist…
View article: Does Sex or Age Impact the Prognostic Value of a Zero Coronary Artery Calcium Score?
Does Sex or Age Impact the Prognostic Value of a Zero Coronary Artery Calcium Score? Open
Background: It is unclear whether sex or age impacts the prognostic value of a zero coronary artery calcium (CAC) score. Methods: We searched our electronic medical record (eMR) database for primary prevention patients who underwent positr…
View article: The REgistry of Flow and Perfusion Imaging for Artificial INtelligEnce with PET (REFINE PET): Rationale and Design
The REgistry of Flow and Perfusion Imaging for Artificial INtelligEnce with PET (REFINE PET): Rationale and Design Open
Rationale The REgistry of Flow and Perfusion Imaging for Artificial INtelligEnce with PET (REFINE PET) was established to aggregate PET and associated computed tomography (CT) images with clinical data from hospitals around the world into …
View article: Multicenter Evaluation of Interpretable AI for Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis from PET Biomarkers
Multicenter Evaluation of Interpretable AI for Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis from PET Biomarkers Open
Background Positron emission tomography (PET)/CT for myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) provides multiple imaging biomarkers, often evaluated separately. We developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model integrating key clinical PET MPI p…
View article: AI-Derived Splenic Response in Cardiac PET Predicts Mortality: A Multi-Site Study
AI-Derived Splenic Response in Cardiac PET Predicts Mortality: A Multi-Site Study Open
Background Inadequate pharmacologic stress may limit the diagnostic and prognostic accuracy of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). The splenic ratio (SR), a measure of stress adequacy, has emerged as a potential imaging biomarker. Objectiv…
View article: AI-based Hepatic Steatosis Detection and Integrated Hepatic Assessment from Cardiac CT Attenuation Scans Enhances All-cause Mortality Risk Stratification: A Multi-center Study
AI-based Hepatic Steatosis Detection and Integrated Hepatic Assessment from Cardiac CT Attenuation Scans Enhances All-cause Mortality Risk Stratification: A Multi-center Study Open
Summary Background Hepatic steatosis (HS) is a common cardiometabolic risk factor frequently present but under-diagnosed in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease. We used artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically qua…
View article: Interpreting Josephus Contextually: Composition, Audiences, Messages, and Meaning
Interpreting Josephus Contextually: Composition, Audiences, Messages, and Meaning Open
When this volume's editors kindly invited my participation in the initiating conference, with its focus on Josephus' reception and Sefer Yosippon, I suggested offering something general: a reference point in Josephus research for the origi…
View article: Five Speeches in the Fourth Book of Josephus’ Judaean War
Five Speeches in the Fourth Book of Josephus’ Judaean War Open
preclude all of these impressions.It describes the flight of native leaders and upper classes from Jerusalem to Vespasian as well as a counter-flow into the city from Judaea's, Peraea's, and Galilee's villages.This last current brings John…
View article: Second Temple Studies: The Past, Present, and Future of the Ioudaioi
Second Temple Studies: The Past, Present, and Future of the Ioudaioi Open
In this essay I have advanced three propositions. First, the strength of Second Temple studies is due chiefly to a paradigm shift. Freed from Christian domination or refraction through rabbinic literature, this extraordinary period in the …
View article: A highly predictive cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) risk score for 90-day and one-year major adverse cardiac events and revascularization
A highly predictive cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) risk score for 90-day and one-year major adverse cardiac events and revascularization Open
The derived PET/CT 90-day and one-year MACE-Revasc risk scores were highly predictive and outperformed ischemic burden and cardiologist assessment. These scores are easy to calculate, lending to straightforward clinical implementation and …
View article: RESPONSE
RESPONSE Open
There is no point in trying to summarise my responses to such highly varied contributions. I conclude instead by reiterating my gratitude to our generous hosts in Jerusalem, to Anthony Giambrone also for his labours as editor of this volum…
View article: Absent or Mild Coronary Calcium Predicts Low-Risk Stress Test Results and Outcomes in Patients Considered for Flecainide Therapy
Absent or Mild Coronary Calcium Predicts Low-Risk Stress Test Results and Outcomes in Patients Considered for Flecainide Therapy Open
Background: Flecainide is a useful antiarrhythmic for atrial fibrillation (AF). However, because of ventricular proarrhythmia risk, a history of myocardial infarction (MI) or coronary artery disease (CAD) is a flecainide exclusion, and str…
View article: Paul without Judaism: Historical Method over Perspective
Paul without Judaism: Historical Method over Perspective Open
In this essay I have tried to examine with readers a different and simpler question, which is susceptible to at least partial (dis)confirmation: “How did Paul present himself to the groups of Christ-followers he established, in relation to…
View article: Jewish Historiography
Jewish Historiography Open
Josephus’s Antiquitates judaicae returns us to our starting point because it sits on both sides of the question, “What constitutes Jewish historiography?” On the one hand, Josephus views historiography as a Greek undertaking. This confiden…
View article: Religious Violence? Two Massacres on a Sabbath in 66 <scp>ce</scp>: Jerusalem and Caesarea
Religious Violence? Two Massacres on a Sabbath in 66 <span>ce</span>: Jerusalem and Caesarea Open
In recent years a new debate has appeared in scholarship over the value of ‘religion’ as a category for studying the ancient Mediterranean world before its Christianisation. Although I have unwittingly become involved at the margins, I con…
View article: Pathos and passions in Josephus's Judaean War
Pathos and passions in Josephus's Judaean War Open
The author presents the results of an investigation into Josephus’s use of πάθος in his War. However, he cautions that War’s πάθη seem not to be simple feelings or emotions but are closely bound up at least with suffering and calamity; the…
View article: Myocardial Infarction Associated with Regional Myocardial Flow Deficit and Normal Coronary Arteries in a Patient with COVID-19: A Case Report
Myocardial Infarction Associated with Regional Myocardial Flow Deficit and Normal Coronary Arteries in a Patient with COVID-19: A Case Report Open
Myocardial injury is increasingly recognized as a complication in patients with COVID-19, but the pathophysiological basis remains uncertain. Here we present a case of non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction associated with small ve…
View article: Prophecy in Roman Judaea: Did Josephus Report the Failure of an ‘Exact Succession of the Prophets’ (Against Apion 1.41)?
Prophecy in Roman Judaea: Did Josephus Report the Failure of an ‘Exact Succession of the Prophets’ (Against Apion 1.41)? Open
In Ag. Ap. 1.41, after stressing that the Jewish holy books are rightly trusted because only prophets wrote them, Josephus remarks that Judaeans do not trust later writings in the same way. The reason he gives is usually translated as “the…
View article: Vespasian’s Rise from Civil War in Josephus’s Bellum Judaicum
Vespasian’s Rise from Civil War in Josephus’s Bellum Judaicum Open
scriptores temporum, qui potiente rerum Flauia domo monimenta belli huiusce composuerunt, curam pacis et amorem rei publicae, corruptas in adulationem causas, tradidere.nobis ... aemulatione etiam inuidiaque, ne ab aliis apud Vitellium ant…
View article: Judaean and Christ-Follower Identities: Grounds for a Distinction
Judaean and Christ-Follower Identities: Grounds for a Distinction Open
In NTS 62.3 (July 2016) David Horrell argued that certain passages in 1 Corinthians 7 and 1 Peter 3 showed ‘ethnicising’ traits among the early Christians. He set this result against an alleged trend in scholarship that would distinguish a…
View article: N. T. Wright on Paul the Pharisee and ancient Jews in exile
N. T. Wright on Paul the Pharisee and ancient Jews in exile Open
This article examines two topics that emerge from N. T. Wright's Paul and the Faithfulness of the Gospel : Paul the Shammaite-zealot and the ‘great narrative’ of an Israel in exile, waiting for something. The perspective adopted is that of…