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Walter Wiggins

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology
Radiology, Neuroradiology
DUMC 3808, Durham, NC 27710
DUMC 3808, Durham, NC 27710

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology · 2024 - Present Radiology, Neuroradiology, Radiology

In the News


Published November 20, 2020
Top Challenges of Applying Artificial Intelligence to Medical Imaging
Published November 6, 2020
To Remain a Technology Leader, Radiology Must Train Residents in Machine Learning
Published November 4, 2020
Data science pathway prepares radiology residents for machine learning

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Recent Publications


Proof-of-Concept Prompted Large Language Model for Radiology Procedure Request Routing.

Journal Article J Vasc Interv Radiol · July 2025 PURPOSE: To measure the accuracy and cost of a proof-of-concept prompted large language model (LLM) to route procedure requests to the appropriate phone number or pager at a single large academic hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS: At a large academic hospita ... Full text Link to item Cite

Open-Weight Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Automated Structured Data Extraction from Diagnostic Reports: Assessment of Approaches and Parameters.

Journal Article Radiol Artif Intell · May 2025 Purpose To develop and evaluate an automated system for extracting structured clinical information from unstructured radiology and pathology reports using open-weight language models (LMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and to assess the effects ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Brain Tumor Segmentation - Metastases (BraTS-METS) Challenge 2023: Brain Metastasis Segmentation on Pre-treatment MRI.

Journal Article ArXiv · December 9, 2024 The translation of AI-generated brain metastases (BM) segmentation into clinical practice relies heavily on diverse, high-quality annotated medical imaging datasets. The BraTS-METS 2023 challenge has gained momentum for testing and benchmarking algorithms ... Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


MS Clinical Trial: DUOC

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by The Marcus Foundation · 2020 - 2025

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Education, Training & Certifications


Wake Forest University, School of Medicine · 2014 M.D.
Wake Forest University · 2012 Ph.D.