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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) is useful as an adjunct to digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) in opportunistic screening and diagnostic imaging, suggest findings published October 14 in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. DBT continues to be studied as more breast imaging facilities adopt the technology.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Oxford Brain Diagnostics' CDM Insights software has been granted 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Powered by the Oxford, England-based company's cortical disarray measurement technology, CDM Insights allows for clinical assessment of the brain's microstructures via MRI scans. It processes clinical MRI scan data from both 1.5-tesla

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Middlebrooks, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Erik H. Middlebrooks, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. He earned his medical degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Florida. Middlebrooks, MD.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

BOSTON -- ChatGPT shows early promise in classifying clinically significant breast pain, according to research presented at the Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CMIMI). ChatGPT also correctly identified most clinically significant breast symptoms. of clinically significant symptoms.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The use of AI in thoracic imaging has begun to demonstrate "cumulative evidence of effectiveness," but more testing and research are needed to determine its feasibility for this application, according to a commentary published February 25 in Radiology. van Beek, MD, of the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. in an accompanying editorial.

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APRIL 8, 2025

Deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) was highly aligned with F-18 FDG-PET -- a cornerstone of dementia diagnostics -- in patients with Alzheimer's disease in a study published April 8 in Radiology. DMI can be performed with the same MRI scanner that supplies standard structural images, the authors explained. Image courtesy of RSNA.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It's better to take Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) upgrading rules into account when it comes to deciding whether a patient with clinically significant prostate cancer needs a biopsy, researchers have reported. "[Our] The study results were published February 14 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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MARCH 6, 2024

In his talk, Dean Huang, MD, from King’s College London in England outlined novel applications for CEUS in vascular and nonvascular imaging, as well as therapeutic and potential future applications. “Ultrasound contrast agent use can be ubiquitous in interventional practice and can solve many logistical or clinical diagnostic problems,” he said.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This is a testament to how research has shifted from standalone studies on the accuracy of algorithms to how they may actually impact clinical workflows – and thereby perhaps move a step closer to broader clinical implementation. Is adjacent x-ray imaging in the ER justified? Sunday, December 1 | 2:30 p.m.-2:40 2:40 p.m. |

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

The two giants in their respective industries plan to debut the first “MammogramNow” clinic Dec. 8 at the supercenter in Milford, Delaware.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

Available in two versions -- SE and UE -- the new scanner features a 70 cm design and integrated AI-enabled MR Smart Workflow software, the latter of which increases patient throughput without compromising diagnostic quality, the company said. Whats more, Philips announced an AI research collaboration with the Mayo Clinic for cardiac MRI.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Diagnostic imaging leads the way in AI product approvals by a mile, accounting for more than 70% of all applications on the list.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Canadian x-ray manufacturer KA Imaging plans to highlight clinical results regarding the use of its Reveal 35C detector in the intensive care unit (ICU) at the American Society of Emergency Radiology (ASER) meeting to be held in Washington, D.C.

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APRIL 2, 2025

A significant percentage of imaging studies ordered by office-based healthcare providers are self-interpreted rather than referred to radiologists for reading, according to researchers from the Harvey L. The large differences between radiologists and nonradiologists in interpretation training could lead to differences in diagnostic accuracy."

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The VIO system visualizes and captures images at the cellular level for improved diagnostics.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Chest dynamic digital radiography (DDR) may have received a boost toward clinical use in patients with lung disorders, with researchers developing AI to perform time-consuming analysis involved in the technology, according to researchers in New York City. Image and caption courtesy of Chest Pulmonary.

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MARCH 4, 2025

Thus, the researchers aimed to determine prospectively whether 18F-FES PET improves staging for patients with clinical stage II/III or local-regional recurrent, grade 1 or 2, ER-positive breast cancer compared with standard F-18 FDG-PET. Image and caption courtesy of the RSNA. The full study is available here.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has a diagnostic accuracy comparable to digital mammography for women referred for breast imaging, a study published January 10 in Cancer Treatment and Research Communications found. The retrospective study included data collected from 10,742 total exams from the two modalities. compared to 0.90

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JUNE 6, 2024

Deep learning-based image reconstruction (DLR) has been a hot topic in CT over the past five years, as researchers and vendors have continuously demonstrated the technology's potential to improve on legacy and filtered back-projection (FBP) reconstruction methods. Accordingly, commercial and research activity has accelerated.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

The Choi team compared the diagnostic performance of LI-RADS v2024 with that of LI-RADS v2017 for detecting HCC in at-risk patients. A,B) Images from an initial ultrasound examination showed no identifiable lesions and received a consensus ultrasound category of US-1. Final analysis included 407 patients with a median age of 56 years.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The finding is from a study that validated a fast protocol in 121 clinical patients, with seven independent readers giving the algorithm high scores for reducing image noise and improving image sharpness, noted lead author Jan Vosshenrich, MD, of New York University in New York City, and colleagues.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

ChatGPT-4 has greater diagnostic accuracy than ChatGPT-3.5 when assessing text-based medical imaging cases, a study published January 16 in Radiology found. Our study highlights the pressing need for more robust and continuous large language model monitoring systems before clinical deployment,” Li and colleagues wrote.

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MAY 28, 2024

ChatGPT would require further refinement before being used clinically to help educate patients about cardiac imaging, according to a study published May 23 in Clinical Imaging. Questions ranged from those on simple diagnostic subjects (“My doctor wants to run tests to diagnose coronary artery disease.

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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. There's a huge role for AI in image acquisition," he said.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Radiology practices can create a more welcoming environment for radiologists returning from parental leave who breastfeed, according to a paper published November 26 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. They can also provide a PACS workstation in breastfeeding rooms so radiologists can interpret images while breastfeeding.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

In 2023, nonhospital sites faced more competition compared with hospital-based facilities for oncology-related diagnostic imaging scans, according to IMV’s recently published 2023 Oncology in Diagnostic Imaging Market Outlook Report. Want to share your knowledge of medical imaging? out of 5 rating.

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JULY 25, 2024

AI developers can recognize and avoid pitfalls when creating models and tools for interpretative imaging performance, according to an analysis published July 24 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. However, certain issues must be addressed before these algorithms are fully integrated into clinical practice.”

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MARCH 1, 2024

Implementing imaging referral guidelines not only supports value-based radiology but makes it easier to communicate with patients about low-value services, according to findings presented February 29 at ECR 2024. Low-value imaging procedures result in an ineffective allocation of resources and imposes potential danger," Tay said.

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APRIL 3, 2025

Siemens Healthineers and Tower Health have formed a 10-year Value Partnership that will focus on equipment enhancement, technology modernization, and improving clinical experience for patients. This includes devices and scanners related to CT, MRI, interventional radiology, and Varian radiation oncology therapies.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Low-dose iron oxide tracers impact the quality of breast MR images, but not that of contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM), a study published February 5 in Surgical Oncology found. However, they also observed no such effect on CEM images. The researchers included 14 women in their prospective study.

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JULY 2, 2024

"These findings advocate for the potential of machine learning in revolutionizing cardiac tumor diagnostics, offering pathways to more accurate, noninvasive, and patient-centric diagnostic processes," the Sadegh-Zadeh team wrote. Localization and characterization of these tumors require advanced imaging. F1 score (malignant) 46.51

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Medical students prefer musculoskeletal, body, and breast imaging early in their clinical education, according to research published October 19 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. The four-week radiology rotation involves didactic teaching for different imaging techniques and modalities. 0.001 Body imaging 30.2%

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Are low-field MRI units effective for neuroradiologic imaging? It's true that overall image quality of routine clinical brain and spinal MR imaging at 0.55-tesla Also, using low-field MRI may make imaging of structures near bone -- such as the internal auditory canal -- more feasible, they wrote. tesla imaging.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Researchers led by ShivendraRai, MD, from King Georges Medical University in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, found that LUS scoring predicts surfactant administration better than chest x-ray in preterm neonates of 34 weeks' gestation admitted within 12 hours of birth with clinical suspicion of RDS. Specificity 50% 91% Diagnostic accuracy 80.1%

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A team led by Jinhao Lyu, MD, from the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing found that the synthetic images produced by their system were comparable to real CTA images, which could help assess the aorta and carotid arteries while avoiding risks related to contrast media use. and p > 0.99, respectively). and p > 0.99, respectively).

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JULY 25, 2024

NYU Langone Health spinout Microstructure Imaging (MICSI) has secured U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its MICSI-RMT AI image enhancement software for brain MRI. Designed to enhance white-matter imaging, MICSI-RMT employs a random matrix theory-based algorithm. Images courtesy of MICSI.

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APRIL 2, 2025

The American College of Radiology (ACR) will offer Belgium-based icometrixs brain MRI AI software through its Alzheimers Network for Treatment and Diagnostics (ALZ-NET). Participating imaging facilities in ALZ-NET will be offered discounted access to the software to encourage standardized ARIA monitoring, icometrix said.

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