AuntMinnie

JULY 29, 2024

A team led by Brent Little, MD, from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, found that in U.S. newspaper coverage, news articles over the past 25 years have discussed AI’s advantages more than potential risks. However, radiologists were “infrequently” interviewed or quoted in these articles.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

ChatGPT-4 consistently produces clinical vignettes that stereotype certain races, ethnicities, and genders, according to a study published in the January issue of The Lancet: Digital Health. According to the findings, there were significant differences in GPT-4's modeling of disease prevalence by race and gender compared with true U.S.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2023

“Skin biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosing calciphylaxis, but it can worsen lesions and confer poorer disease prognosis,” the researchers wrote, in a study published October 23 in JAAD International. All but one patient had renal disease and most had several other comorbidities, the authors wrote.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Lymphedema is a chronic disease of the lymphatic system caused by the accumulation of proteins in the interstitium, ultimately leading to inflammation, and can be caused by damage to the lymphatic system from surgery or radiation treatment, the authors explained. The disease is a particular concern among cancer patients, they noted.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 2, 2024

Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) have developed and validated an abdominal organ segmentation model and made it available as an open-source application for further research and potential clinical deployment in pediatrics, according to an article published in the American Journal of Roentgenology on May 1.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

PET imaging has revealed brain pathology linked to faster clinical progression of Alzheimer’s disease in patients with ApoE4 gene variants, according to a study published November 6 in JAMA Neurology. A link to the full article can be found here. The study authors included scientists at Eli Lilly and Company.

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Aidoc

JANUARY 8, 2025

Brandeis published their seminal article, “ The Right to Privacy ,” in the Harvard Law Review. This tension is evident with clinical AI a field that promises to reshape healthcare but also pushes the boundaries of privacy in new ways. Clinical AIs reliance on sensitive health data magnifies these issues.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 15, 2024

The recommendations could improve patient care, as current clinical tools are often insufficient in complicated cases, noted lead author of the guidance Jamieson Bourque, MD, of the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. The recommendations emphasize the complementary nature of these advanced nuclear medicine exams.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Alzheimer’s disease patients with cognitive impairment or dementia who were referred for amyloid PET scans had fewer hospitalizations compared with a matched control group, according to a study published October 9 in JAMA Neurology. The full article can be found here. The percentage of patients impacted was small – just 4.5%

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are among those monitoring the clinical and investigational role of AI in advanced cardiac CT imaging. Charalambos Antoniades, British Heart Foundation chair of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Oxford and lead author of The Lancet article.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In this article, they evaluated empirical evidence on cellular mechanisms potentially responsible for the pattern. Furthermore, fatigue has previously been linked to cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson’s disease via a similar brain network as that involved in long COVID, they wrote. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

and Alex Zwanenburg-Bezemer, PhD, of National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden in Germany, and colleagues shared their results in an article published February 6 in Radiology. Their full research article can be found here. Co-first authors Philip Whybra, PhD, of Cardiff University in the U.K.,

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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. But we're still just scratching the surface."

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

As of January 2023, hybrid iterative reconstruction (HIR) -- a blend of FBP and MBIR -- was the state-of-the-art image reconstruction technique, according to Lennart Koetzier; Martin Willemink, PhD; and colleagues, who wrote about the technical principles and clinical prospects for the RSNA journal Radiology. Tim Leiner, MD, PhD.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both FUO and IUO can be caused by a wide range of pathological processes, from malignancies, infections, and granulomatous and inflammatory diseases, to miscellaneous causes. The full article is available here. T2 IDEAL WATER image (B) shows increased T2 signal; LAVA WATER (C) image shows mild enhancement in these muscles.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 6, 2024

Both CT and MRI enterography show promise for assessing the severity of Crohn's disease, researchers have reported. Fibrostenotic strictures increase the risk of disease complications and surgery in patients with Crohn's disease. Maximal associated small bowel dilation 0.74 Maximal stricture wall thickness 0.58

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) has much to offer when it comes to pediatric imaging, according to a review article published October 25 by American researchers in the British Journal of Radiology. Further work is needed by the pediatric radiology community to take full advantage of the benefits of [PCCT] for our patients."

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 18, 2024

New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. 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.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, have taken a first step in using AI to automatically classify and organize shoulder x-rays on a large scale, according to a recent study. To date, most registries consist primarily of clinical data, and either completely lack or contain very limited medical imaging information.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 26, 2024

Conversely, FAPI radiotracers such as gallium-68 (Ga-68) FAPI have been developed that bind to fibroblast cells in the supportive tissue of tumors, and these PET tracers have shown significant promise for detecting disease in previous studies. The full article is available here. PET/CT and MR images of a 72-year-old woman. (A)

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

The article was published January 25 in Neurological Research and Practice. MRI is the imaging gold standard for diagnosis, yet identifying the disease using this method remains challenging, the researchers wrote. In our outpatient clinic follow-up (2 to 2.5

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 22, 2023

NK/T-cell lymphoma originates from mature T cells and NK cells; while the disease has a low incidence, it progresses rapidly and patients have low survival outcomes, the authors explained. The full article can be found here. Finally, after the PET/CT scan was done, the patient’s staging was changed from II to IV.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The technology figured prominently in five Minnies categories, including Hottest Clinical Procedure. We hope you enjoy our article as well as the opportunity to hear directly from the recipients. And 2023 is no exception. Notably, AI was even more prevalent this year among the Minnies winners than in the past.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Several studies have demonstrated that vaccine-related lymphadenopathy may confound disease assessment in oncology patients, the researchers added. The full article is available here.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 26, 2023

The guideline emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary team approach to guide treatment decisions for oligometastatic disease, a description for cancer that reaches a state in which the patient has a small number of metastases in addition to a primary tumor. The guideline is published in Practical Radiation Oncology.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

For this third in a series of articles covering the rise of theranostics, AuntMinnie.com asked several of those at the forefront to discuss freestanding theranostics center development, their roles, and some of the obstacles they've encountered with introducing the new model of care. Chang insists that BAMF Health is not a clinical company.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

Efforts to bring quantitative MRI analysis into clinical practice received a boost with the availability of two new Category III Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for brain MRI. The timing of the new codes dovetails with advances in neuroimaging, such as in the assessment of white-matter diseases.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 4, 2024

They're also mindful of the multiple dedicated teams required to build a theranostics clinic properly. Hope, vice chair of clinical operations and strategy in the UCSF department of radiology, established the radioligand therapy group at the university. Morris specializes in prostate cancer and new investigational agents.

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Imaging Technology

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alzheimer disease is a progressive, irreversible brain disorder that slowly degrades memory and cognitive function. While previous treatment methods focused on addressing Alzheimer disease symptoms, recent approvals of monoclonal antibodies have provided a path to target the underlying disease itself. In June 2021, the U.S.

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European Society of Radiology: AI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

So, why has radiomics not made its clinical debut yet, despite its innovative and logical approach? Yet, as with any breakthrough novelty and hype, new standards and guidelines are required to sort through and streamline the harmonious chaos of researchers and software developers for radiomics to become clinically applicable.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

And our fifth most-read article for the week described how the use of cardiac PET has increased for assessing coronary artery disease.

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UCSF Biomedical Imaging

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

An article in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine reports findings of a multi-center retrospective study that compares bone scan with PSMA PET for initial staging of prostate cancer.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

"[Our study found that] Lung-RADS scores in clinical LCS are higher than in the NLST, even after adjusting for known confounders such as age and smoking," wrote a team led by Tina Tailor, MD, of Duke Health in Durham, NC. but it's unclear how cancer incidence identified in clinical screening compares with that identified in research trials.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Since its clinical introduction in 2009, Ferumoxytol-enhanced MRI (FE-MRI) has significantly reshaped CE-MRI practices. This comprehensive review not only bridges the gap between clinical demands and engineering innovations but also forecasts the potential development trajectory of FE-MRI.

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Ben White

JUNE 20, 2023

And having models for different patterns of disease allows you to pick up on subtle constellations of findings. That means reviewing the chart for things like operative notes, making sure to review the previous exams, and looking up new diseases and their features. This all largely relies on experience (of course!)

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2025

Biparametric MRI (bpMRI) and multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) show comparable negative predictive value (NPV) when it comes to identifying clinically significant prostate cancer, researchers have reported. Thus, insight into the NPV of bpMRI would help inform the examination's integration into clinical practice."

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 20, 2024

CTA is usually the first-line exam for aneurysm identification, and its role in clinical diagnosis is to detect cerebral aneurysms and generate three-dimensional segmentation,” they wrote. Future prospective studies are necessary to evaluate the ability of this model to assist clinicians in real-world clinical scenarios,” they wrote.

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