Dr. Gary Glazer, former chair of the department of radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, died at the age of 61 on October 16 at Stanford Hospital after a long battle with prostate cancer.
Dr. Gary Glazer. Image courtesy of Stanford University.
Dr. Gary Glazer. Image courtesy of Stanford University.
As an early investigator of both CT and MRI, Glazer is credited with developing standard imaging criteria for distinguishing liver and adrenal tumors, and for categorizing different stages of tumors in lung cancers.
He authored more than 155 scientific articles and three books and is one of 21 radiologists to receive gold medal awards from both the RSNA and the Association of University Radiologists.
Glazer oversaw the design of the Stanford Medicine Imaging Center, which opened in 2008 in Palo Alto, CA. The facility was specifically designed to enhance and promote radiologists' interactions with patients.
He stepped down from the chair position in August to retire.
![A normal mammogram confirmed by three-year radiologic follow-up illustrates reader-marked regions of interest (ROIs) during (A) unaided (round 1) and (B) artificial intelligence (AI)–assisted (round 2) reading. Each colored dot represents an ROI for recall by a human reader. Readers could mark more than one ROI per case, represented by multiple dots of the same color. During AI-assisted reading, the AI system displayed three visible prompts: two with suspicion of malignancy scores of 35% (left mediolateral oblique [L MLO] and craniocaudal [L CC]) and one with a suspicion of malignancy score of 10% (right craniocaudal [R CC]), shown as polygonal overlays. Without AI, six of 10 readers (60%) marked a false-positive ROI. With AI assistance, this fell to two of 10 (20%). R MLO = right mediolateral oblique.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-14-radiology-mammogram-ai-auto-bias.H0bYO8QlWs.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
