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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Estimating the prevalence and severity of coronary artery calcium (CAC) using data gleaned from nongated chest CT imaging improves risk assessment of postsurgical major clinical events before a patient undergoes noncardiac surgery, according to research published in the October 10 issue of Circulation. compared with 2.9%. 1 to 2 3.7%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2025

The researchers investigated the frequency of insurance denials for annual breast MRIs in women with this genetic variant and reviewed exam denial trends via a study that included data from 682 women with BRCA1/2 germline mutations who had screening breast MRIs ordered between 2020 to 2021 at a high-risk breast cancer clinic.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 31, 2024

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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AuntMinnie

JUNE 26, 2024

“We constructed a newly effective model for the prediction of ALNM … which provides an alternative option for breast cancer patients in the early stage and demonstrates its potential in practical clinical applications,” Dong and co-authors wrote. The group used clinicopathological data and ultrasound features to create the nomogram.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Women in Radiology Education (WIRED), formed in 2020 at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB), is a student-led group dedicated to advancing radiology mentorship, research, and service opportunities for women in medical school. Since 2020, WIRED has hosted student-led events focusing on education, skills, and community.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In a large group of patients who underwent imaging between 2021 and 2023, F-18 FES-PET/CT supported clinical decisions in three quarters of cases and resulted in a management change in one third, noted lead author Jeongryul Ryu, MD, of the Asan Medical Center in Seoul, Korea, and colleagues. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 22, 2024

The work included 83 patients with liver cancer who had surgery and preoperative abdominal CT between January 2010 and December 2020; the team identified sarcopenia by assessing skeletal muscle mass of the third lumbar vertebra using CT imaging and software analysis. Cutoffs for skeletal muscle index were 43.75 cm 2 /m 2 for men and 41.10

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 8, 2023

However, Eriksson noted that there is little data available on the generalizability and clinical feasibility of these AI models across different screening settings. For their study, Eriksson and colleagues tested their clinically used image-derived, AI-based risk model in multiple European breast cancer screening populations.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2025

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2020 for detecting ER-positive lesions as an adjunct to biopsy in patients with advanced recurrent or metastatic breast cancer. Ultimately, the goal is to assess whether the initial staging of ER-positive breast cancer should be added to the FDAs clinical indications for the tracer, they noted.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Most Influential Radiology Researcher Erik Middlebrooks, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Erik Middlebrooks, MD. One of this year's nominations for Most Influential Radiology Researcher is Erik Middlebrooks, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. Elliot Fishman, MD.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 12, 2024

The result boosted the clinical value of the approach, the group noted. “We Thus, the researchers put the two approaches to the test on a difficult clinical task: differentiating F-18 FDG-PET/CT slices as benign or malignant, especially in lesions with poor F-18 FDG radiotracer uptake. “In The full study is available here.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The group gathered 500 images from patients who underwent both chest x-ray and thoracic CT within 72 hours at their hospital between January 2010 and December 2020. Prospective evaluation in clinical practice with a natural prevalence of abnormal conditions should be considered to confirm these benefits,” the group concluded.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A team led by Daniel Heppe, MD, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System in Aurora, found that residents reported improved overall health and well-being, as well as reported improved ability to attend educational sessions without skimping out on clinical reasoning or skills.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 6, 2024

Our work suggests that] a natural language processing-based clinical decision support tool … can identify patients presenting to the emergency department with low-risk PE as candidates for outpatient management," it noted. The group's findings were published March 2 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. "[Our

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Since 2020, Kessler and colleagues have been conducting an ongoing prospective trial investigating Ga-68 FAPI-PET/CT or PET/MRI and its impact on clinical management for staging or restaging various cancer tumors as part of clinical care.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 7, 2024

3D printing continues to grow in popularity for radiologists and other clinical users planning treatment strategies. In 2020, the RSNA and ACR launched a registry to collect standardized case data about 3D printing performed in healthcare facilities, using the ACR National Radiology Data Registry system.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 29, 2024

Imaging features are tied to pathological findings in breast cancer among young women, a study published January 26 in Clinical Imaging found. In its retrospective study, the team reviewed a database consisting of 342 cases of primary breast cancer collected between 2001 and 2020. The study can be found in its entirety here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

RadNet executives will spend the next 18 months learning what does and doesn't work for operating small in-store retail breast cancer screening clinics in three areas of the U.S. In early December 2023, the first of RadNet's three pilot MammogramNow clinics opened in a Walmart Supercenter in Milford, DE. Photo courtesy of RadNet.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2024

Some countries support population-wide breast cancer screening programs and track the initial method of detection, whether screening mammography or clinical examination. "[These] disagreements have produced conflicting recommendations that confuse patients and providers and miss opportunities to save lives," it wrote.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Several recent expert panels have suggested from anecdotal experience that LSG is used infrequently and that the diagnosis of lymphedema is usually based on clinical examination, the team wrote. insurance database who had a new diagnosis of lymphedema between April 2012 to March 2020.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Presenter Pouria Rouzrokh, MD, of the the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, discussed a model named THA-Net, a deep-learning algorithm with potential for making the presurgical planning process for total hip arthroplasty (THA) more efficient. Synthetic images generated by the algorithm were also assessed against software-based criteria.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 12, 2024

System-level efforts to ensure physicians take adequate vacation and have coverage for clinical responsibilities, including electronic health record [EHR] inbox, may reduce physician burnout,” Sinsky and co-authors wrote. The team included survey data collected between 2020 and 2021 from 3,024 physicians. Meanwhile, 35.5%

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 20, 2024

All participants underwent multiparametric ultrasound with attenuation imaging and 2D SWE, as well as liver biopsy, from 2020 to 2022 conducted in 12 tertiary hospitals in China. This included 332 participants with MASH and 92 without.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 22, 2024

Yet the specific impacts of the technology on the workflow in contemporary radiography rooms have not yet been validated in the clinical routine, they noted. To that end, the researchers conducted an observational study at five clinical sites in Europe and the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this study, the researchers tested the approach for the first time in head and neck cancer patients with tumors of unknown origin in a prospective clinical trial. PET/CT and MR images of a 72-year-old woman. (A) but presented no evidence for primary tumor.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 26, 2024

In a clinical trial conducted at the Hoag Family Cancer Institute in Irvine, CA, researchers tested the technique versus CT bone scans or FDG-PET/CT and found that it detected an equivalent number of cases. in 2020 that targets estrogen receptors, which are expressed in about 70% of breast cancers.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 14, 2024

Weekend admission for transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedures is tied to higher mortality risk and post-procedure morbidity, suggest findings published June 12 in Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. Researchers led by Renxi Li from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.,

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 22, 2024

To do so they conducted a study that used Medicare Part B claims data between 2008 and 2020 to track the workload of 35,595 radiologists. The investigators found that the percentage of total clinical workload (measured in relative value units, or RVUs) that involved resident training dropped from 35.3% in 2008 to 26.3%

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 20, 2023

To this end, the team conducted a study that included 185 women who underwent arterial spin labeling MRI between September 2020 and December 2022. Of these, 38 were premenopausal (mean age, 48), 42 were perimenopausal women (mean age, 51), and 42 were postmenopausal women (mean age, 54). The study also included 63 men (mean age, 52).

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 15, 2025

Simulated contrast-enhanced MR images from noncontrast sequences using deep learning show promise for assessing clinically significant prostate cancer, according to a study published January 14 in Radiology. Their research included 567 men with suspected prostate cancer who underwent multiparametric MRI between April 2020 and April 2023.

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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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REBEL EM

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Clinical Scenario: A 15-year-old male with a history of multiple food allergies presents after ingestion of a sandwich during a school gathering. Updated Anaphylaxis Guidelines (2020) References Lieberman P. Biphasic Anaphylaxis: Review of Incidence, Clinical Predictors, and Observation Recommendations. Read More: 1.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 13, 2025

This ML approach outperformed individual clinical, CCTA, and stress cardiac MRI metrics alone, as well as existing scores and traditional statistical methods, in two separate external validation datasets, Pezel and co-authors wrote. Of these, 2,038 completed follow-up exams at a median duration of seven years.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 11, 2023

AI algorithms appear to have clinical value based on detecting normal x-rays – that is, by flagging chest x-rays as normal versus abnormal, they may reduce reading times for radiologists, according to research presented recently at the RSNA meeting in Chicago. In a session on chest imaging, scientists from AI developers Lunit and DeepTek.ai

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Stroke Connect digital platform allows hospital physicians to assess clinical patient data remotely. Stroke Connect allows hospital physicians to assess clinical patient data remotely and in advance of presentation at the hospital, which speeds therapy decisions, Siemens said. Image courtesy of Siemens.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It includes new data on patient selection and best practices from clinical trials published since the prior guideline was issued in 2020, the society said. The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has released an updated radiation therapy guideline for rectal cancer.

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MAY 16, 2024

The findings were published on May 11 in Clinical Interventions in Aging. "CT Zhang and colleagues investigated the question via a study that included 1,268 patients who underwent both chest CT and DEXA within a one-month time frame between November 2020 and August 2021. Which patients would most benefit from this use of CT?

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