Aimilia Gastounioti, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology

Aimilia Gastounioti, PhD, is an assistant professor of radiology and principal investigator in the Computational Imaging Research Center for Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She is a biomedical engineer by training, with research interests focusing on advancing the role of breast imaging as a predictive biomarker for guiding personalized clinical decisions in breast cancer screening.

Gastounioti’s research has pioneered computational imaging methodologies for breast cancer risk assessment, including novel radiomic and artificial intelligence approaches for 2D and 3D mammograms. A major component of her current research lies in racial disparities in breast cancer screening, aiming to bring effective personalized breast cancer risk models to more racially diverse screening populations.

Gastounioti grew up in Greece and received her doctorate in engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, performed partly in collaboration with the Center for Visual Computing/INRIA GALEN Research Group at the Ecole Centrale de Paris. Subsequently, she received her postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Radiology. Gastounioti has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles and received research awards from the Department of Defense, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Siteman Cancer Center and the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics.

Research Interests

Breast cancer, computational imaging analytics, machine learning, big data, precision medicine

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Education History

Fellowship

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

Doctorate

National Technical University of Athens

Undergraduate

National Technical University of Athens

Awards

2023-2024 Council of Early Career Investigators in Imaging (CECI²), Academy for Advancing Innovation in Imaging Science
2020 Summa Cum Laude, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Pendergrass Day Symposium
2019 Certificate of Merit, Radiological Society of North America
2019 Magna Cum Laude, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Pendergrass Day Symposium