WashU Medicine researchers have found that adiposity in early adulthood, as well as weight gain during early adulthood, may have a lifelong impact on breast parenchymal tissue patterns within premenopausal women. Aimilia Gastounioti, PhD, assistant professor of radiology, Adetunji Toriola,…

In a recent study, senior author Aimilia Gastounioti, PhD, and collaborators across academia, clinical practice and industry analyzed over 214,000 mammograms from more than 61,000 women at 50 outpatient radiology sites in the U.S. Read more in BJR Artificial Intelligence…

Racial disparities exist between Black women and white women both in breast cancer mortality rates and in AI models that predict cancer risk. In efforts to address the gap in current predictive models, Aimilia Gastounioti, PhD, secured a $3.1 million R01…

Aimilia Gastonuioti, PhD, and colleagues published “Genome-Wide Association Study of Breast Density among Women of African Ancestry,” which appeared in Cancers. The paper was a collaborative effort with scientists from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, University of…

Aimilia Gastounioti, PhD, assistant professor of radiology, and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania have published a paper studying the relationship between short-term changes in mammographic density (MD) and breast cancer risk. Breast density may change over time in a…