Annually, the Editor-in-Chief and the Associate Editors of the Journal of Digital Imaging, the peer-reviewed, scientific journal of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), select and recognize the best papers and the best reviewer for the previous year.

The Journal of Digital Imaging announced its Best Paper and Best Reviewer Awards for 2009 (Volume 22) at SIIM's Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota in June 2010.  The recipients are:

JDI Best Paper - First Place:

Joaquim Cezar Felipe, MD, PhD, et al, for their paper:
“A New Family of Distance Functions for Perceptual Similarity Retrieval of Medical Images,” Vol. 22:2.

JDI Best Paper - Second Place:

Namkug Kim, et al, for their paper:
“Development of an Automatic Classification System for Differentiation of Obstructive Lung Disease using HRCT,” Vol. 22:2.

JDI Reviewer of the Year:

David Brown, BSCS, CNMT, CIIP

JDI Best Paper - First Place (tie):

Thomas M. Deserno, PhD, et al, for their paper:
“Extended Query Refinement for Medical Image Retrieval,” Vol. 21:3.

JDI Best Paper - First Place (tie):

Xiao Hui Wang, MD, PhD, et al, for their paper:
“Characterization of Radiologists’ Search Strategies for Lung Nodule Detection: Slice-Based Versus Volumetric Displays,” Vol. 21, Supplement 1.

JDI Reviewer of the Year:

Bradley J. Erickson, MD, PhD, FSIIM