AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

AI based lesion-detection software used in daily practice can help identify clinically significant incidental lung nodules on chest x-rays, according to a study published November 13 in Scientific Reports. needed clinical management,” wrote lead author Shin Hye Hwang, MD, and colleagues. This indicates that approximately 20.6%

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Implementing a clinical decision support system (CDSS) had little effect on reducing inappropriate imaging orders by doctors in university hospitals, according to a study published February 10 in JAMA. Between December 2021 and June 2024, 13 departments at three hospitals implemented the CDSS intervention and 13 departments did not.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 4, 2024

Davin Korstjens of IMV Medical Information Division. When it comes to hospitals' focus on specific clinical programs, 61% of respondents indicated that their hospital has a vascular surgery program, 54% have a cardiac surgery program, and 31% have a dedicated structural heart disease program -- all of which use fixed C-arm devices.

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AuntMinnie

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. out of 5 rating, compared with hospital sites, which registered a 3.7 Davin Korstjens. out of 5 rating.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

tesla MRI AI body composition analysis Cardiac PET Cryo/thermoablation CT colonography Genicular artery embolization Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI PET/MRI Photon-counting CT Radiomics Theranostics Whole-body MRI screening Image of the Year 3D PET/MR image.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 25, 2024

Previous reports have documented healthcare access disparities and lack of inclusion in clinical research regarding historically underserved populations. Lopez and co-authors studied the relationship between NIH research funding awarded to radiology departments and Lown Institute Hospitals Index rankings for inclusivity and community benefit.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Israel-based Nano-X Imaging (Nanox) will conduct a clinical study evaluating its Nanox.ARC 3D imaging system in a clinical outpatient setting at Clalit Health Services-owned Beilinson Hospital, part of Rabin Medical Center.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 14, 2024

The phenomenon is called cognitive motor dissociation, wrote a team led by Yelena Bodien, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, both in Boston. The investigators conducted a study that included clinical, behavioral, and task-based fMRI and EEG data from 353 adults. The median patient age was 37.9

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AuntMinnie

JULY 23, 2024

Instead, the radiologist-generated reports provided a descriptive report and final impression, histologic and molecular characteristics as part of the medical report, treatment history, and current clinical status, according to co-lead authors Kai Laukamp, MD, and Robert Terzis, MD, of the University of Cologne in Germany, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2025

Epic reported that more than 2,000 Epic hospitals and more than 50,000 Epic clinics are either live or preparing to go live on the federal Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) framework for nationwide health data exchange.

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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. These scans are often stored in hospital radiology systems for years without further use, but we could extract more information from these scans to guide preventative treatments."

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Middlebrooks, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Erik H. Middlebrooks, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. Given the extensive array of sequences and techniques employed in clinical imaging, we must address the inherent challenges associated with each," he noted. Middlebrooks, MD.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It's a question researchers at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Canterbury Christ Church University have asked as part of their prospective, randomized, multisite trial currently open and underway in the U.K. How does immediate AI-enabled patient triage on chest CT impact the lung cancer pathway?

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 13, 2025

AI is giving radiologists crisper images with less noise and better analytics, providing a fuller and truer diagnostic picture to inform treatment decisions earlier in the care pathway when a patients chances for remission and long-term survivability are higher.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The nomogram incorporating radiomics and clinical features could be a useful clinical tool for the early and accurate assessment of long-term prognosis in patients,” the group wrote. They extracted radiomics features from this data based on their clinical effectiveness in predicting 3- and 5-year progression-free survival.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 15, 2024

These insights can inform clinical decisions, providing a more comprehensive understanding of disease extent and refining treatment strategies for breast cancer patients,” the group wrote. In diagnosed patients, accurate staging is vital for effective clinical management.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 30, 2024

QIA [include] features like reticulation and ground-glass opacities as well as subtle density changes with important clinical implications," Choi said in a statement released by the RSNA. "In The study underscores the need for further research, wrote Brent Little, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, in an accompanying commentary.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The MRI PDFF measure could improve patient care by giving clinicians a more accurate picture of liver disease, a team led by Tianyi Xia, MD, of Zhongda Hospital School of Medicine, Southeast University, in Nanjing, China. Summary-level data included information from 32,858 patients and individual-level data from 378,436 patients.

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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. Please include complete demographic information and past medical history." “I prevalence estimates. I am a medical educator.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 22, 2024

Researchers led by Laith Sultan, MD, from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia reported that the large language model could accurately perform image segmentation and classify lesions on ultrasound as normal or abnormal.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 25, 2024

Researchers led by Seyed Tabatabaei, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, in their clinical perspective outlined these pitfalls and made suggestions on AI model training and validation, as well as using diverse datasets.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

milla1cf Fri, 10/13/2023 - 11:20 October 13, 2023 — Hospital TV leader LG Business Solutions and healthcare technology innovator Aceso Interactive are collaborating on a new platform designed to deliver customizable, personalized content to digital displays in healthcare settings.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

Throughout 2023, AuntMinnie.com has kept you informed about how GPT has been incorporated into various types of radiology department activities for research. Radiology resident Kaustav Bera, MD, is a third-year resident at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

christine.book Thu, 02/29/2024 - 10:00 February 29, 2024 — The Healthcare Information Management Systems Society , HIMSS , recently announced it HIMSS 2024 Changemaker in Health Awards and scholarship recipients, according to an announcement published Jan. 25 by the organization.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 1, 2024

In an open forum, Yi Xiang Tay, of Singapore University Hospital's radiography and diagnostic imaging department, shared his team's research. In addition, clinical decision support systems were the most evaluated mode of intervention, either integrated or standalone. For more coverage from ECR 2024, please visit our RADCast.

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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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MAY 14, 2024

milla1cf Tue, 05/14/2024 - 12:45 May 14, 2024 — University Hospitals (UH) and Siemens Healthineers announce a 10-year strategic alliance that builds on their 40-year history of clinical and research collaboration. Because there is no “typical” hospital or laboratory and many variables exist (e.g.,

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A steady increase in the volume of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) exams is occurring, especially at mid- to high-level community hospitals across the country. If staff choose the right subgroup of patients to examine with CCTA imaging, they can save their hospital, healthcare system, and insurance companies a lot of money.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 12, 2024

The result boosted the clinical value of the approach, the group noted. “We One advantage of ViTs is that they can integrate information across the entire image, while CNNs obtain more localized features, according to the authors. They have been adapted to include mechanisms that process images as sequences of tokens.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 27, 2024

Under the auspices of Alara Imaging , a measure steward entity established by the university, CMS plans to adopt the measure into its hospital and physician pay-for-performance programs beginning in 2025. Administered CT radiation doses are highly variable across patients, radiologists, and hospitals throughout the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 12, 2024

As nuclear medicine therapies gain stature compared to nuclear medicine in diagnostic imaging, hospital administrators may be eyeing the potential of adding theranostics services. Reshaping the hospital's nuclear medicine and radiopharmaceutical strategy toward theranostics involves intensive and inclusive planning, Beyder explained at SNMMI.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 16, 2024

Deep-learning algorithms can effectively segment CT scans of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and thus offer prognostic information to clinicians, researchers have reported. The group's findings were published August 14 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Median follow-up was 39.1

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 16, 2024

The researchers leveraged what they described as an untapped opportunity that allowed them to perform SPECT just seconds after triggering seizures, with the imaging visualizing brain regions associated with language difficulties in three patients, noted lead author Sabry Barlatey, MD, PhD, of University Hospital of Bern, and colleagues. “We

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

"Somebody on the other end of the spectrum might say a theranostics center represents a clinical practice where patients are administered a radiopharmaceutical, with any diagnostic imaging sent out to those who do diagnostic imaging, and then these patients are sent back for clinical care to their medical oncologist for all follow-up," he added.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 3, 2025

A team led by Daniel Schwarz, MD, from Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany found that MR neurography (MRN) has a higher accuracy and sensitivity while high-resolution nerve ultrasound (HRUS) achieved a higher specificity. High-resolution imaging provides important pathomorphological information in diagnosing peripheral nerve disorders.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The finding is from a phase III trial that compared the two treatments in 450 patients and could help patients make decisions about their treatment, noted presenter Jason Efstathiou, MD, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital. About 70% of new prostate cancer cases – more than 200,000 people in the U.S. at 60 months).

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 17, 2023

To make the situation more complicated, not all possible adverse events from GBCAs are noted in drug packaging, wrote a team led by Lu Wang , PhD, of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital in Yantai, China. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first GBCA in 1998, and ever since, this class of drugs has been used with MRI to diagnose disease.

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