AuntMinnie

APRIL 26, 2024

Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is inviting comment as it develops a draft recommendation for assessing cardiovascular disease (CVD) via coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring or the ankle-brachial index. The task force last evaluated the assessment of cardiovascular disease in 2018.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 23, 2024

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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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2024

"This collaborative multimodal approach not only boosts diagnostic performance but also offers interpretable insights to radiologists, paving the way for advanced, efficient disease diagnosis and improved clinical decision-making," the authors noted. Both were tasked with diagnosing 15 conditions, which included 14 diseases and normal brains.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

While neuromelanin was first described in the 19 th century, researchers have elucidated its possible role as a biomarker for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease in the last two decades. Cassidy, “it allows us to obtain potentially useful adjunctive information about many other diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, and PTSD.”

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JANUARY 31, 2024

To that end, the researchers analyzed the use of the technique from a trial they first launched in 2018. The researchers included a total of 178 with salvage RT plans available who had enrolled in the trial between September 2018 and August 2020 at UCLA and the University of California, San Francisco.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A group at the Federico II University of Naples analyzed rates of osteoporosis in women diagnosed with the disease using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans. They found that women exposed to environmental tobacco smoke had similar rates of the disease as those who actively smoked.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The researchers categorized the chemotherapeutic response of study participants by either responders including complete remission and partial remission, and nonresponders including stable disease and progressive disease. In total, the group included data collected between 2018 and 2021 for 67 patients.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Interobserver agreement for assessing interstitial lung disease (ILD) using high-resolution CT (HRCT) is moderate, researchers have reported. Our results demonstrate that repeatable assessment of disease severity, extent, and progression is challenging even for expert radiologists," the group noted.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

CHICAGO – Black patients receive fewer MRI scans for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and undergo imaging at an older age than other racial groups, according to research presented November 27 at RSNA 2023. Additionally, new treatments have recently become available for Alzheimer’s disease that can potentially slow the rate of decline.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2024

The study included 220 advanced-stage (FIGO III/IV) ovarian cancer patients ages 65 to 67 who were scheduled for primary (n = 27) or interval (n = 193) debulking between 2018 and 2023. that every visible disease has to be removed surgically," Lahaye said. We as radiologists have a problem in depicting disease on CT, peritoneal disease.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

The team from the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee, has approval to use a unique, large data set made up of CT and MRI brain scans from patients in Scotland from 2008 to 2018, representing 1.6 million images. Approval comes from the Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care, a part of NHS Scotland.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 20, 2023

However, the researchers noted that the emphasis on specificity can lead to disease under-staging. Using this, tumors were categorized into the following: viable (LI-RADS 4, 5, or treatment response), equivocal (LI-RADS 3 or treatment response), and no viable disease (only LI-RADS treatment response).

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JUNE 26, 2024

The company, founded in 2014 by female scientist now Therona CEO Eva van Rikxoort , partners with research institutions and medical companies in their innovation programs aimed to enable breakthroughs in precision medicine for personalized treatment of pulmonary diseases. says Eva van Rikxoort, CEO and Founder of Thirona.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

magnet is helping more patients in diverse locations benefit from a technology that plays an essential role in diagnosing many of the world’s most prevalent diseases. Since the first installations in 2018, Philips’ BlueSeal magnet has proven to be reliable technology that is rapidly reshaping patient access to MRI worldwide.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The technique is widely used to assess patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD). To that end, the group enrolled consecutive outpatients slated for MPI at their institution between July 2013 and December 2018. The mean age of participants was 70.8 years and 64% were male.

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JULY 13, 2023

s AJR accepted manuscript included 205 patients (median age, 65 years) who underwent contrast-enhanced abdominopelvic CT before primary treatment for advanced ovarian cancer from June 1, 2018 to January 31, 2022. Andrieu et al.’s A total of 128 reports generated before March 31, 2020 used a simple structured report (i.e.,

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 19, 2024

Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT (LDCT) has been shown to reduce mortality rates from the disease. The findings were published August 19 in Annals of Internal Medicine.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 19, 2024

A team led by Junqi Han, MD, from the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University in China found that its model combining data from mammography images, ultrasound images, and other characteristics performed well in predicting disease-free survival of breast cancer. They collected imaging data to establish deep-learning models using ResNet50.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 15, 2024

However, increased longevity has brought on a troubling rise in chronic disease, diminishing the quality of life later in life. A 2018 study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that more than a quarter of U.S. Mark Crockett, MD, chief medical officer at TeleDaaS.

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JUNE 7, 2023

ClearRead CT with CVI allows radiologists to clearly, confidently, and quickly detect cardiothoracic diseases with Certainty of Search™, and they can then use ClearRead to view additional quantitative information when nodules are detected. “The For more information: [link] Reference: [1] Lo, S. Freedman, M. Gillis, L. S., & Mun, S.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Like the general populace, prevalent causes of mortality within Native American communities encompass heart disease, cancer, and accidents. They advocate for strategies to address this shortage and ensure that American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians receive adequate healthcare.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The team took this data from a UK Biobank cohort enrolled between January 2014 and December 2018; all study participants underwent brain MR imaging.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 12, 2023

They investigated risk scores from the Tyrer-Cuzick model and characteristics of breast cancer patients younger than 40, using data collected between 2013 and 2018. Finally, the researchers found that Black women were more likely to present with advanced-stage disease, at 17.6% in the study.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2024

Screening for the disease with mammography can be tricky, however: High resolution is needed to identify small lesions, there can be indistinct boundaries on some lesions that mimic normal tissue, and high variation exists among fibroglandular patterns. Of these exams, 240 showed malignancies and 1,820 were benign.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

A clearer understanding of lung anatomy helps enable broader adoption of minimally invasive treatments for lung diseases such as COPD and lung cancer, helping save more healthy lung tissue and lung function capacity. The LungQ software first received 510(k) clearance for version 1.1.0

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Syphilis -- a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum -- is a multisystemic infection that can affect various organs, and the number of syphilitic patients has rapidly increased worldwide over recent years, they explained. Image courtesy of UNC Radiology.

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MARCH 4, 2024

She and colleagues assessed the performance of this type of protocol in women at high risk for breast cancer via a study that included 236 shortened breast MRI exams performed between 2018 and 2021. Four readers blinded to patients' prior imaging, history, and disease outcomes reviewed the scans.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 3, 2024

The team included data from Black and African American women from the Detroit, MI area, with ultrasound exams performed between 2010 and 2018. They also measured fibroid growth and standardized methods to find out family history. Four standardized ultrasound exams were performed during a five-year period to detect fibroids 0.5

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Physician Shortages The Indian Health Service (IHS) faces significant physician shortages , with a vacancy rate of 25% in 2018. Understaffing negatively impacts healthcare outcomes in tribal communities, exacerbating conditions such as diabetes, cirrhosis, chronic lung diseases, and behavioral health issues.

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JUNE 26, 2024

The company, founded in 2014 by female scientist now Therona CEO Eva van Rikxoort , partners with research institutions and medical companies in their innovation programs aimed to enable breakthroughs in precision medicine for personalized treatment of pulmonary diseases. says Eva van Rikxoort, CEO and Founder of Thirona.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They conducted a study that included 129,340 routine bilateral screening mammograms performed in 71,479 women between 2009 to 2018 with five-year follow-up data. Of the total exams, 106,839 were of white women; 6,154 of Black women; 6,435 of Asian women; 6,257 of women of other races; and 3,655 of women in unknown racial categories.

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JUNE 19, 2023

Mr. Stephen Merrick, who joined NorthStar in 2016 and has been CEO since 2018, will assume the role of Executive Chairman. Scholz joined NorthStar in 2021, and was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) in 2022. The changes reflect NorthStar’s long-term strategy for continued growth and corporate development. “I

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JANUARY 30, 2024

The timing of the new codes dovetails with advances in neuroimaging, such as in the assessment of white-matter diseases. In 2018, Alosco received nearly $800,000 from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for the research. The work builds on previous research.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Chest CT is a common exam for children to diagnose and monitor lung disease, but exposing children to radiation is always a concern. "Two lung-nodule CAD systems demonstrated decreased sensitivity on low-dose versus standard-dose pediatric CT scans performed in the same patients," Hardie said in a statement released by the AJR.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

4 National Organization of Rare Diseases. Completion date: February 1, 2023; Austin, Texas. Food and Drug Administration. See [link]. Proclaim DRG Neurostimulation System Clinician’s Manual. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Accessed Nov. 5 Lee DH, Noh EC, Kim YC, et al.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Postoperative Assessment 52 yo with post-traumatic degenerative joint disease of the ankle. His clinical interests include ankle arthritis, neuropathic disease, forefoot reconstruction, and deformity. (1) Epub 2018 Oct 8. NWB CT after staged hardware removal did not reveal source of ankle pain. PMID: 33410964. (5)

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JUNE 27, 2023

The potential impact of nuclear medicine in the care of patients dealing with cancer, heart disease, brain disease, and other challenges is enormous,” she said. “We She then completed a nuclear medicine residency in 1989 at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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