AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Margulis Award for Scientific Excellence to authors of the Radiology article, “A 20-year Follow-up of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program [I-ELCAP].” The annual award recognizes the best original scientific article published in RSNA’s flagship journal, Radiology. The RSNA will present the 2024 Alexander R.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A radiologist and a sonographer failed to diagnose critical conditions during two pregnancies, including a twin baby who died three days after birth, according to a report by the office of New Zealand's Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC). The radiologist ("Dr.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 11, 2024

The facility covers more than 30 municipalities and treats an average of 30,000 patients per year, according to an article posted in May 2022 by Berit Press. He was a receptive person who helped other doctors in the discussion of cases to reach diagnoses.” It is a sad day.”

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REBEL EM

APRIL 17, 2023

Article: Kim DJ et al. Question: How well does the US perform in diagnosing PTA compared to CT, needle aspiration, or Incision and Drainage? Furthermore, another small retrospective study found that approximately 30% of patients with CT-diagnosed PTA lacked purulence on drainage attempts (Eliason 2023). Acad Emerg Med.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Interventional radiologists use minimally invasive image-guided procedures for diagnosing and treating various conditions, including alcohol and thermal tumor ablation techniques. The full article is available here. Three studies were conducted in Italy, one in the U.S., and one in France.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

On July 9, 2024, AuntMinnieEurope.com posted an article about the extensive damage caused to Ukraine's largest pediatric hospital. Radiologist Josh Sokol, MD, a founder of the FRI who works with teleradiology company vRad, read AuntMinnieEurope.com 's July 9 article and recognized the urgent need for ultrasound capabilities at the Ohmatdyt.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

years, or until they were diagnosed with the disease. Out of nine individuals with low cardiac F-18 dopamine-derived radioactivity at their first scan, eight were diagnosed later with Parkinson’s or Lewy body dementia, according to the findings. The full article was published recently in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Swiss biopharmaceutical company AC Immune highlighted a study showing the potential of its alpha-synuclein (a-syn) PET tracer for diagnosing neurodegenerative disease. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 30, 2024

In an analysis of cases where F-18 FDG radiotracer uptake was reported as suspicious for oropharynx cancer on PET/CT scans, the number of patients who were actually diagnosed was low, the group found. Further analysis revealed that these diagnosed patients had higher F-18 FDG mean ipsilateral radiotracer uptake.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 22, 2023

F-18 FDG-PET/CT scanning is crucial in identifying tumor lesions, determining staging, and devising treatment strategies for individuals diagnosed with NK/T-cell lymphoma,” wrote lead author Huixia Geng, MD, of the Third Hospital of Shanxi Medical University. The full article can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 8, 2024

A study conducted in a primary care clinic in Spain highlights the need for improvement of AI algorithms for interpreting chest x-rays, despite being commercially approved by European regulators, according to an article published March 3 in Scientific Reports. The full article is available here.

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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. The full article is available here. 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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) is effective for stroke patients who need to be transferred from hospitals where they are diagnosed to centers capable of performing the procedure, according to a study published February 8 in JAMA Network Open. The full article is available here. Out of 352 enrolled patients (median age, 66.5

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 10, 2024

CBBCT in recent years has garnered interest among radiologists as another way to diagnose breast cancer. They added to the literature by evaluating eight research articles that directly compared the diagnostic value of both modalities for primary breast cancer. In total, the studies included 847 participants.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 23, 2024

In addition, the article in Radiology provided an English translation of the original German summary for the case of a 48-year-old female patient. The full journal article can be found here. No image data were transmitted to GPT-4.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

While conventional medical imaging approaches provide information related to the tumor structure and facilitate diagnoses in these patients, radiomics – an approach based on extracting quantitative data from images to generate imaging biomarkers – could help determine whether patients are responding to treatment, they added.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 25, 2025

This article is an important first step that should be studied by all of us affected." A nonproprietary, community-based approach is imperative to ensure full transparency, achieve consensus among CT stakeholders, and provide reliable clinical diagnoses at the lowest radiation dose possible," he wrote.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

MAY 2, 2023

A pair of articles published in the May issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine illustrate the promise of the novel FAPI radiotracer in diagnosing, staging, and treating multiple types of cancer.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In clinical care, amyloid PET scans are used to diagnose and manage Alzheimer’s disease patients based on the amounts of beta-amyloid plaque the scans reveal in the brain. The full article can be found here. These plaques drive symptoms and are the target of several recently approved treatments.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

F-18 PI-2620 was first developed by researchers in Germany, and it has since been tested in studies that suggest it may be more accurate than other tau radiotracers used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease patients based on its ability to bind more strongly to the target. A link to the full article can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Ultimately, the study underscores the importance of verifying a patient’s vaccination status before an imaging examination, as vaccination-associated changes can lead to false-positive diagnoses, the authors noted. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 23, 2024

PSMA-PET/CT has the potential to be an effective alternative imaging approach for diagnosing patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), a type of kidney cancer, according to a study published May 23 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Using a comprehensive search strategy, the authors initially identified 145 articles.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A group at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, evaluated how often clinically significant lung nodules were detected unexpectedly on chest x-rays by AI (Insight CXR, v3, Lunit ) and whether coexisting findings can aid in differential diagnoses. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

To that end, the researchers tested GPT-4’s ability to model the demographic diversity of medical diagnoses by constructing 10 unique prompts, each of which asked GPT-4 to generate an example patient presentation with a specific medical condition. The full article can be found here. prevalence estimates.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

CT-guided percutaneous needle biopsy is a minimally invasive procedure used to analyze tissue and is key in diagnosing suspicious pulmonary nodules, the authors explained. The full article can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cardiac PET MPI has emerged as a key tool for diagnosing and managing patients with cardiovascular diseases, especially coronary artery disease, yet overall it remains underutilized in the U.S., The full article can be found here. Strategies to increase the use of cardiac PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We hope you enjoy our article as well as the opportunity to hear directly from the recipients. Importantly, we are gaining deeper insights into disease processes themselves, which enhances our ability to diagnose and potentially treat conditions that were previously beyond our reach."

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 1, 2024

Moreover, while PFTs are vital for diagnosing and monitoring pulmonary disorders, they pose challenges in accessibility, such as in patients with neuromuscular conditions or those experiencing flares of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, they suggested. “Our The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 29, 2023

Cureus is calling for submissions of research articles focusing o. Residents measure up when diagnosing pneumothorax Imaging, labs aid in treating teen with rare jaw tumor Imaging leads to removal of 3-cm toy from dementia patient Echo helps identify flossing-induced heart disease

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Photon-counting CT may serve as an alternative to MRI for assessing liver fat in patients with fatty liver disease, according to an article published September 24 in Radiology. diagnosed with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in the asymptomatic cohort. (B) in the MASLD cohort.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 5, 2024

While MRI-detected biomarkers may serve a beneficial role for people with hip and knee pain, the modality's clinical utility may be limited in patients over the age of 45 in patients with advanced osteoarthritis, according to an article published in the American Journal of Roentgenology ( AJR ).

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

OCTOBER 1, 2024

UCLA researchers have developed a deep-learning framework that teaches itself quickly to automatically analyze and diagnose MRIs and other 3D medical images—with accuracy matching that of medical specialists in a fraction of the time.

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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

APRIL 30, 2024

In addition, the ACR recommends that women diagnosed with breast cancer prior to age 50 or with a personal history of breast cancer and dense breasts should have annual supplemental breast MRI. Furthermore, these women should also begin annual mammography at ages 25 to 40. Several randomized trials of risk-based screening are underway (e.g.,

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 20, 2024

(A) In a 66-year-old male patient, the cerebral aneurysm was diagnosed by the deep-learning (DL) model in the right internal carotid artery segment C7 (R-ICA-C7) (boxes and red label), with verification at DSA (arrow), and the short and long diameter description was “3.2 × 5.1 The full article can be found here.

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Maven Imaging

MARCH 31, 2023

Radiological equipment such as the X-ray machine provides a low-risk way for healthcare providers to deliver fast and accurate diagnoses for treatment guidance. X-ray machines can last for many years, but it's essential to have a properly functioning and technologically up-to-date machine to obtain accurate images in your practice.

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Professional Radiology

AUGUST 16, 2021

Diagnostic imaging tests are tools used by physicians to diagnose a range of medical conditions. Why Diagnostic Imaging Methods Are Important Medical imaging is used to diagnose, monitor, and treat medical problems. This article will talk about the different diagnostic imaging methods such as X-rays, CT scans, Ultrasound, and MRI.

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