Imaging Technology

MAY 6, 2024

More research findings A 2018 study by Nottingham University Hospitals in England concluded: “Conventional mammography technique requires the mammographer to move into awkward and strenuous positions with the patients standing throughout the procedure. Click here for a link to download the Siemens report.

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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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European Radiology

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Dr. Lucas de Pádua Gomes de Farias is a cardiothoracic radiologist working in the Department of Radiology at Sírio-Libanês Hospital (Brazil) and completed his PhD studies at the University of São Paulo Medical School (Brazil). Congratulations on this wonderful achievement and we look forward to welcoming you to our team!

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 1, 2024

The fact that ABUS is capable of this 3D technique differentiates it from handheld ultrasound, said presenter Elizabet Nikolova, MD, of University Hospital of Zürich in Switzerland. They conducted a study that included 1,219 women who underwent ABUS between October 2015 and October 2018.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 12, 2024

To address this gap in knowledge, the researchers enrolled 237 women with early breast cancer who were undergoing adjuvant treatment with aromatase inhibitors and denosumab (60 mg every six months) at their hospital in Brescia from September 2014 to June 2018. Data analysis was conducted in June 2022.

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Vesta Teleradiology

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Physician Shortages The Indian Health Service (IHS) faces significant physician shortages , with a vacancy rate of 25% in 2018. Scheduled for May 2024, Sage Memorial Hospital in Ganado will further strengthen healthcare, serving around 23,000 people.

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 22, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the latest update of its AI-based clinical software LungQ (v3.0.0), making its new features widely available for use in hospitals in the United States. It is currently used by more than 600 hospitals and has been validated in more than 200 publications globally. LungQ 3.0.0

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 29, 2024

The trial was conducted from January 2013 through October 2018 in six public hospitals across Sweden. The primary outcome was curve progression of 6° or less (treatment success) or curve progression of more than 6° (treatment failure) seen on posteroanterior standing x-rays before and after the intervention.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 11, 2024

A team led by Rajesh Bhayana, MD, from Toronto General Hospital in Canada found that the large language model achieved a perfect F1 score for incidental adrenal nodules and highlighted that their results show that such models can be applied flexibly in medical settings.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The findings offer another way to foster breast cancer early detection, improve patient survival rates across different populations, and reduce disparity in survival rates, said study lead author Leslie Lamb, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston in a statement. “In Image and caption courtesy of RSNA.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2024

Researchers led by Mohammad Elhakim, MD, from Odense University Hospital found that a standalone AI system achieved high specificity as a first reader and for combined reading, along with moderate sensitivity for both reading scenarios. The team included data from 257,671 screening mammograms performed between 2014 and 2018.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2024

Bartholomew's Hospital in London. 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.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A group led by Lukas Kessler, MD, of University Hospital Essen in Germany, assessed the accuracy of gallium-68 (Ga-68) FAPI-PET in patients with pancreatic cancer enrolled in an ongoing study. They found high detection rates and diagnostic accuracy, as well as superior performance to standard imaging.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2024

Synthesis is marketing its technologies to imaging centers, hospitals, teleradiology groups, as well as OEMs. Merge was subsequently bought by IBM later that year and Reicher stayed on as chief medical officer at IBM Watson Imaging until 2018. The company can also provide customers with a full PACS replacement system. In addition, “.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

To that end, the researchers identified all outpatient CTs of the head, CT angiographies of the head, and MRI brain exams performed for cognitive impairment at their hospital between March 2018 and February 2022 (n = 1,699).

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The study recruited women ages 50-70 from 2018 to 2020. The researchers analyzed data from the TOSYMA study, a multicenter randomized controlled trial within the German mammography screening program. The team included data from 49,462 women in the test arm and 49,669 women in the control arm.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Autoimmune encephalitis: When your immune system attacks your brain and MRI is your detective, by Fernando Diego Choque Chavez, MD, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain. This 2018 exhibit was presented by Tirth Patel, MD, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Image courtesy of UNC Radiology.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 27, 2023

She completed a diagnostic radiology residency in 1982 at the University of Toronto, followed by a fellowship in pediatric radiology at the Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto, both in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is among the most prestigious formal recognitions available to long-time SNMMI members.

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Aidoc

MAY 6, 2024

A shortage of radiologists and increasing demand for medical imaging has led to a notable rise in teleradiology demand across Germany and Austria, with the number of hospitals leveraging these services doubling between 2018 and 2023 (1).

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Aidoc

MAY 6, 2024

A shortage of radiologists and increasing demand for medical imaging has led to a notable rise in teleradiology demand across Germany and Austria, with the number of hospitals leveraging these services doubling between 2018 and 2023 (1).

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REBEL EM

AUGUST 7, 2023

The authors of the AID-ICU study aim to determine whether haloperidol leads to a significantly greater number of days alive and out of the hospital at 90 days than placebo in ICU patients with delirium. The use of haloperidol in managing delirium in ICU patients did not result in a reduction of mortality rates or length of hospital stay.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 3, 2024

Prior research exploring potential ties between family history and fibroid development is limited by several factors, including reliance on hospital-based participant selection, poorly defined measures of family history, and nonsystematic fibroid assessment. cm or larger in diameter and to measure fibroid growth.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A team led by Amy Knudsen, PhD, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston found an increase of 10 percentage points in the uptake of lung, colorectal, breast, and cervical cancer screening at their respective starting ages as recommended by the U.S. Increasing use of recommended screening strategies could reduce the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2024

The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Leiden University Medical Center, and Catharina Ziekenhuis Teaching Hospital are collaborating on the multicenter MISSION trial. Max Lahaye, MD, of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam presents findings on the clinical impact of dedicated MR staging of ovarian cancer patients during ECR 2024.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Researchers, led by presenter Vineet Kalathur Raghu, PhD, from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, trained an AI model to predict a patient’s probability of cardiovascular mortality within 12 years. Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring on CT exams can be utilized to estimate the 10 -year risk of ASCVD.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 5, 2024

A team of pediatricians analyzed results from dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans in a group of transgender youth who participated in a trial at Children's Hospital Colorado between 2016 and 2018 to evaluate insulin sensitivity and body composition.

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Imaging Technology

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Since its initial FDA clearance in 2018 for recurrent brain tumors and subsequent FDA clearance in 2020 for newly diagnosed brain tumors, GammaTile Therapy has helped more than 1,000 people with operable brain tumors, reported the company in the statement released during ASTRO 2023. was founded by a team of brain tumor specialists.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In 2018, she led a study on automated breast density assessment for informing cancer risk, and in 2022, she and colleagues studied the impact of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) on imaging dense breasts. Kerlikowske has studied breast density on imaging.

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Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2023

NM-101 is a cloud-based analysis platform that is able to seamlessly integrate into existing workflows at hospitals and imaging centers. The device allows doctors to send neuromelanin MRI images to Terran directly through the hospital picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and receive a full report back in under an hour.

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CurveBeam AI

MARCH 19, 2024

Patients’ out-of-pocket expense for a CT scan at OrthoCarolina is significantly lower than it would be for the same service at a local hospital, he added. Epub 2018 Oct 8. The HiRse is the only WBCT system that can scan the entire leg while the patient stands on an open platform. Foot Ankle Int. 2019 Feb;40(2):152-158. 2012): 296–302

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Future Teleradiology

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Focus on achieving universal health coverage: March 2018 report from The World Bank has stated that Bangladesh has made a remarkable progress in the field of health and nutrition with reference to Millennium Development Goals. As per the Center for Research and Information (CRI) in Dhaka the country has 600 hospitals.

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REBEL EM

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

1, 2 Its occurrence often portends worse outcomes in intubated patients, whose projected hospital course was already tenuous. Stratified by center (different hospital practices may affect results) and GCS (<8 or ≥8) (higher VAP risk inherent to lower GCS). 4, 8 Paper: Dahyot-Fizelier, C.,

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Vesta Teleradiology

DECEMBER 27, 2022

If you’ve been to the doctor’s office, hospital , or any healthcare building recently, you might have noticed an upgrade in technology. 5G technology has made vast improvements in the medical space since 2018, says Imaging Technology News , and will continue to make waves, globally, for years to come.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 24, 2023

million chest x-rays acquired from 329,036 patients at their hospital between 2011 and 2018 to train and validate the model. (C) Gradient-weighted class activation map shows the algorithm determined no change in the image pair, without relevant highlighting, as the highlighted area is located over the gastroesophageal junction.

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Vesta Teleradiology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

magnet, provides patient-centric MRI services, offering agility and flexibility in placement, especially near hospital entrances for patient convenience. million liters of helium since 2018. This pioneering device, equipped with the industry’s first fully sealed 1.5T

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Imaging Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Ibex’s Galen Breast HER2 is an AI-powered HER2 IHC (immunohistochemistry) scoring solution that detects invasive tumor areas and quantifies HER2 expression into four standard categories: 0, 1+, 2+ and 3+, based on the 2018 ASCO/CAP scoring guidelines2, to support patient identification for targeted therapies. Modern Pathology.

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REBEL EM

AUGUST 14, 2023

001) Hospital mortality: Placebo 22.8% 2018 Mar;36(3):480-487. Epub 2018 Jan 16. 2018 Mar 19;2018:2989846. This varies from the 2001 definition, which used SIRS criteria and was thought to overly focus on inflammation. 1,817 enrolled and randomized 911 randomized to the XBJ cohort. 906 randomized to the Placebo cohort.

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