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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. Such algorithms can help teach computers how to detect and diagnose disease, the NIH said in a September 27 announcement. A number of the images are of patients with advanced lung disease, according to the NIH.

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Diagnosing Pediatric Crohn Disease With Radiomic and Clinical Data

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milla1cf Wed, 08/02/2023 - 19:58 August 2, 2023 — An accepted manuscript published in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) found that deploying a radiomic-based model with T2-weighted MRI data could increase diagnostic accuracy for pediatric Crohn disease (CD). Dillman et al.’s and accuracy of 89.6%. and accuracy of 89.6%.

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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. Taken together, these findings call for efforts to address barriers impeding wider uptake of PET,” the group wrote.

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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.

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Clinical Conundrums: Do We Need to Order a CT for Every Patient with Renal Colic?

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Clinical Scenario: A 35-year-old man with no PMH presents with left flank pain, hematuria and history of kidney stones. In a young patient who has a clear clinical diagnosis, there is no required imaging. ” The Journal of Urology 199.4S (2018): e683-e684. POCUS can help guide imaging decisions. 2011; 18(7):699-707.

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GPT-4 can assist in management of glioblastoma patients

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OpenAI's GPT-4 AI model can utilize imaging reports to generate summaries of disease course in patients with complex glioblastoma, improving treatment planning and potentially even enhancing radiology workflows, according to research published July 23 in Radiology. No image data were transmitted to GPT-4.

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Ask cardiac PET patients how much they exercise, study suggests

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Our findings indicate that a pragmatic single-item exercise question can improve the clinical utility of stress PET MPI, while also serving to identify which patients may deserve exercise counseling due to the absence of exercise activity,” noted lead author Keiichiro Kuronuma, MD, and colleagues. The mean age of participants was 70.8

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