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AuntMinnie 2008: Radiologist pays $7M to settle federal fraud claims

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In 2008, our top article shared the story of a $7 million settlement for allegations of fraudulent Medicare billing. The consulting and clinical research agreements noted by the government were terminated six years ago, prior to the government's investigation. A Florida radiologist has paid the U.S.

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HPI: Resident education work on decrease among attending radiologists

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Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) found "a 19% drop-in rate of cases read with a trainee among teaching radiologists [between 2008 and 2019], representing a significant and meaningful decrease," said lead author Judah Burns, MD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY, in a statement released by HPI. in 2008 to 26.3%

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PET/CT predicts brain tumors in melanoma patients

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To that end, the group investigated the prognostic value of F-18 FDG-PET/CT in predicting the occurrence of brain metastases in 159 consecutive patients with proven melanoma who underwent imaging at their hospital in Salzburg between 2008 and 2021. A 49-year-old patient with primary clinical stage III melanoma underwent F-18 FDG-PET.

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AI helps select patients for supplemental breast cancer screening

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In clinical practice, individuals with very high AISmartDensity score may benefit from supplemental screening tests to enhance early detection,” the authors wrote. The researchers noted that their model is currently acting as a postscreening reader in a randomized clinical trial to flag high-risk mammograms for supplemental MRI.

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ML model using CCTA, MRI data predicts MACE in cardiac patients

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This ML approach outperformed individual clinical, CCTA, and stress cardiac MRI metrics alone, as well as existing scores and traditional statistical methods, in two separate external validation datasets, Pezel and co-authors wrote. Of these, 2,038 completed follow-up exams at a median duration of seven years.

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Fleischner Society updates thoracic imaging glossary of terms

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The latest glossary replaces previous glossaries published in 1984, 1996, and 2008. It includes new terms of clinical importance and concepts that have emerged, discards others that have become obsolete, and addresses terms where usage has either changed or become inconsistent to a degree that they warranted a new definition.

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Direct imaging inputs improve performance of large language models

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They compared the results with those of radiologists using Radiology Diagnosis Please cases that were published between 2008 and 2023. Suh and co-authors studied the performance of these two models in generating differential diagnoses at different temperatures.

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