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Can open-source AI algorithms help clinical deployment?

AuntMinnie

Six hospitals from three National Health Service (NHS) Trusts contributed 2.5 million chest x-ray studies from a 13-year period (2006-2019), which yielded 1.94 Yet there are few freely accessible AI systems trained on large data sets for practitioners to use with their own data with the goal of accelerating deployment, they noted.

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Yellowcross launches teleradiology management service

AuntMinnie

The two first worked together in 2006 at Nighthawk Radiology Services. Yellowcross works with hospitals, clinics, medical groups, and entrepreneurial physicians throughout the U.S. to develop focused service offerings to address radiologist shortages and provide specialty diagnostic services.

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ISMRM: Higher BMI measures translate to poorer brain health

AuntMinnie

Presenter Han Lv, PhD, of Beijing Friendship Hospital in China and colleagues found high BMI to be causally associated with smaller brain volume and abnormal microstructural integrity in projection fibers, especially in adults under the age of 45.

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The Negativity Tendency

Ben White

The late Hans Rosling gave an amazingly popular TED talk back in 2006 (and many other popular talks since). Do you hear about the patients who recover uneventfully in the hospital? You may have seen it. It’s the one showing recent human progress by following counties over time as a series of bubbles. Not really. No, they do not.

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First breast cancer factors impact mammo's ability to find future ones

AuntMinnie

A team led by Julie Hamzah, MBBS, from Singapore General Hospital, found that symptomatic first breast cancers, dense breasts, and the presence of trabecular thickening on mammography are tied to mammogram detection failure of ipsilateral second breast cancers.

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Olympic imaging squad gets set for summer games

AuntMinnie

Renoux has accompanied the French team to the Olympics since London 2012, and since 2006, he has also been part of the radiology team covering the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros. If they need more acute care, they will be referred to the local hospital,” he explained.

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The Modified Valsalva Maneuver: Practical Treatment or Pointless Trick?

REBEL EM

Generally, adenosine has a favorable safety profile, with mostly minor side effects (Holdgate 2006). These rates are significantly lower than those in other research (Holdgate 2006). Additionally, robust evidence supports using calcium channel blockers, which may have a more favorable side effect profile (Holdgate 2006).

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