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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 NIH Clinical Center is the country's largest hospital devoted entirely to clinical research, and patients who are seen there voluntarily agree to participate in clinical trials.

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Hospital fails to dodge $10M malpractice verdict after attempting to pin payment on radiologist

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A nurse punctured the 68-year-old patient's lung with a feeding tube in 2018, and radiologist Louis Jacobs, MD, subsequently failed to spot the injury on X-ray.

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Generative AI, radiologist shortages feature in 2024 Minnies

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The voters also zeroed in on the ongoing shortage of radiologists as the Biggest Threat to Radiology. In 2018, Fishman received an endowed professorship from Johns Hopkins. New strategies will be needed to train the next generation of radiologists, and I'm very excited about these new opportunities," he said. from Ukraine.

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AI boosts breast cancer detection on DBT

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In her talk, Kathy Colletta, MD, from Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida will present her team’s findings, which demonstrate that AI boosts overall cancer detection rates, invasive and lobular detection rates, and cancers detected in dense breasts. The first time period spanned from 2018 to 2020, before the radiologists had access to AI.

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Enable Me Cites New Research by Siemens Healthineers Concluding Job-Related Physical Stresses and Strains for Radiologists Are Resulting in More Turnover and Fewer Entering the Profession

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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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PACS industry veteran returns to launch cloud workflow platform

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Synthesis is marketing its technologies to imaging centers, hospitals, teleradiology groups, as well as OEMs. Organized reports Thanks to an approach the company calls “speech organization”, radiologists can dictate the report in whatever order they want to while looking at the images. But market dynamics are changing.

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Malpractice dos and don'ts: Primer scoops top RSNA award

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The authors of a practical guide designed to help radiologists avoid malpractice claims have received one of 17 magna cum laude awards handed out by the RSNA 2023 judges. The majority of radiologists will face litigation in their careers," noted Luke Michael Wojdyla, a second-year radiology resident, and radiologist James Y.