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Lea Mackinnon

Medical Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology
Radiology, Musculoskeletal Imaging
Duke Box 3808, Durham, NC 27710

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Medical Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology · 2025 - Present Radiology, Musculoskeletal Imaging, Radiology

Recent Publications


Fully Automated Segmentation of Globes for Volume Quantification in CT Images of Orbits using Deep Learning.

Journal Article AJNR Am J Neuroradiol · June 2020 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Fast and accurate quantification of globe volumes in the event of an ocular trauma can provide clinicians with valuable diagnostic information. In this work, an automated workflow using a deep learning-based convolutional neural net ... Full text Link to item Cite

18F-FDG PET/CT for Monitoring Response of Merkel Cell Carcinoma to the Novel Programmed Cell Death Ligand 1 Inhibitor Avelumab.

Journal Article Clin Nucl Med · May 2018 An 85-year-old man with stage IIIA Merkel cell carcinoma of the left arm was initially treated with local excision and axillary node dissection followed by radiation therapy. Eight months after surgery, whole-body FDG PET/CT demonstrated intensely hypermet ... Full text Link to item Cite

Feasibility of using a biowatch to monitor GSR as a measure of radiologists' stress and fatigue

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2015 We have been investigating the impact of fatigue on diagnostic performance of radiologists interpreting medical images. In previous studies we found evidence that eye strain could be objectively measured and that it correlates highly with degradations in d ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Arizona, College of Medicine · 2020 M.D.