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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

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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Ben White

APRIL 7, 2025

Before we get further, I published a series of articles grouped here as a “ Guide to the Core Exam ” that lays out a lot of helpful information. In general, the biggest bang for your buck is still going to be common diagnoses (including weird looks of common things) and normal variants over esoterica.

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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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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

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

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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Imaging Technology

MARCH 29, 2024

A recent review article published online by the National Science Review ( NSR ) and authored by Professor Ning Gu's team from Nanjing University, meticulously explores the clinical applications and inherent technical superiority of FE-MRI.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2025

The results offer additional incentives for using bpMRI to diagnose the disease, wrote a team led by Emmanuel Salinas-Miranda, MD, of the Ottawa Hospital in Canada. Access the full article here. The group's findings were published March 5 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

FLAIR WMH may have specific risk factors and pathologic underpinnings in [repetitive head impact] RHI-exposed individuals," Alosco's team concluded in their article published in December 2023 in Neurology. The work builds on previous research.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The model performed well, and you can read about the study in this issue’s featured article. A story we published on a recent study in Radiology revealed that radiologists outperformed four commercially available AI algorithms when diagnosing lung diseases on chest x-rays, for instance. Click here to watch the interview.

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Imaging Technology

AUGUST 31, 2023

lead author of the article and neuroradiologist at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Patients with ARIA sometimes have headaches, but they are usually asymptomatic and only diagnosable with MRI. “It Agarwal, M.B.B.S., It is essential for the radiologist to recognize and monitor ARIA,” Dr. Agarwal said. “As

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