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AuntMinnie 2018: NIH releases massive database of chest x-rays

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Our top article in 2018 covered an important early development that supported efforts to train AI algorithms. The database was created from studies of 30,000 patients who were seen at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD; the information has been anonymized to protect patient identities. Image courtesy of the NIH.

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BERT-based AI poised for use in radiology

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BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is a natural language processing (NLP) foundation model introduced in 2018. The authors conducted a search on PubMed for literature on BERT-based models and NLP tasks in radiology from January 2018 to February 2023. Google’s Bard chatbot is based on BERT.

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Deep learning combines breast imaging data to predict cancer prognosis

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Deep-learning models could have potential as predictive tools for breast cancer prognosis, a study published January 17 in Clinical Breast Cancer has found. The researchers included data from 1,242 patients recruited between 2013 and 2018 and divided them into training (n = 1,014) and testing groups (n = 228).

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PSMA-PET helps plan treatment in men with relapsed prostate cancer

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In data from a phase III clinical trial, the investigators found that gallium-68 (Ga-68) PSMA-11 PET initiated major management changes to salvage radiotherapy (RT) planning in 33% of patients – notably, a group for whom the technique was first approved in the U.S.

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Cardiac PET use increases in coronary artery disease

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PET, CT, and MRI use for assessing coronary artery disease increased in Medicare patients from 2018 to 2022, while SPECT and stress echocardiography declined over the same period, researchers have reported. relative to other modalities commonly used to assess CAD. In comparison, SPECT was six times more frequent (1.3

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Houston radiologist to pay $8.8M in fraud case

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According to the claim, beginning in 2015, Andrew Gomes , MD, allegedly offered physicians who invested in his clinics returns in dividends if they referred patients for treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). In this case, the whistleblower filed a complaint in late 2018, which triggered the investigation. Attorney Alamdar S.

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AI chatbots deemed ‘empathetic’ to cancer patients

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“If carefully deployed, chatbots can serve as a useful point-of-care tool for providing digital health care and information to vulnerably situated populations without accessible clinical care,” noted study lead Srinivas Raman, MD, a radiation oncologist. versus 3.00), empathy (3.62 versus 2.43), and readability (3.79 versus 3.07).

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