AuntMinnie

JUNE 18, 2024

Currently, atherosclerosis is diagnosed at a relatively late stage in its disease course, typically through clinical assessments and structural imaging modalities such as CT,” Patil noted. The researchers retrospectively identified 115 patients who underwent F-18 NaF-PET/CT in a previous clinical trial.

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Aidoc

JANUARY 3, 2025

The proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule represent a pivotal shift in addressing modern cybersecurity challenges, particularly for industries that rely heavily on sensitive health data, such as clinical AI. For clinical AI, these changes offer both significant opportunities and notable challenges.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

million office-based imaging claims for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022 that were ordered by nonradiologists. They found that rates of self-interpretation varied by imaging modality: Self-interpretation rate for office-based imaging by modality Modality Percentage X-ray and fluoroscopy 50.4%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 19, 2024

Deep-learning models could have potential as predictive tools for breast cancer prognosis, a study published January 17 in Clinical Breast Cancer has found. They collected imaging data to establish deep-learning models using ResNet50. This means the combined model could predict prognosis after surgery.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 16, 2024

The ACR remains committed to achieving regulatory, legislative and clinical environments that enable the highest quality patient care. Founded in 1923, the ACR now has 54 chapters, more than 42,000 members, and more than 39,000 accredited facilities in nine imaging modalities.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Ward and colleagues described the experience of American radiology residents in two Nepalese clinics. In the first clinic, the residents worked with an existing POCUS team in a pregnancy ultrasound clinic in the Mahalaxmi municipality on the outskirts of Kathmandu.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A team led by PhD candidate Lu Zhang of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, developed a large language model (LLM) that generates interpretations (“impressions”) on reports based on imaging findings and evaluated its performance in professional and linguistic dimensions.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 9, 2024

The consensus, published April 9 in Radiology , provides recommendations for improving routine pelvic ultrasounds through additional maneuvers and imaging to improve diagnosis of deep endometriosis, according to the authors. Ultrasound is the typical go-to imaging modality for women experiencing chronic pelvic pain or infertility issues.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 11, 2025

Under scrutiny As medical imaging platforms evolve, even subtle changes in how images are rendered on new viewers can alter how they appear to radiologists, despite the underlying data remaining unchanged. These variations, while often imperceptible to the untrained eye, can influence clinical interpretation.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 9, 2024

The Lobbes team presented findings from the RACER trial, a multicenter, randomized controlled clinical trial that compared CEM to conventional imaging (such as digital mammography or DBT) as a primary breast imaging modality in a real-world scenario.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 17, 2024

F-18 FDG-PET/CT is useful to detect the site and extent of recurrence when conventional imaging methods are equivocal and when there is clinical and/or laboratorial suspicion of relapse. This guideline provides practical recommendations to be applied in clinical practice,” the group wrote.

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AuntMinnie

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. or ChatGPT-4 in our study were answered either with an incorrect or clinically misleading response,” the researchers noted.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 9, 2025

We found no difference in the diagnostic performance for the overall sample between the two imaging modalities with similar area under the receiver operating characteristic [AUROC] and diagnostic yield, the Noguchi team wrote. The retrospective study included data collected from 10,742 total exams from the two modalities.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 6, 2024

PET/CT imaging with F-18 fluroestradiol (FES) can play a significant role helping clinicians make treatment decisions in patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer, according to a study published October 3 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

He noted that in 2019, the European Society of Cardiology issued updated guidelines for diagnostic imaging of coronary artery disease (CAD), recommending noninvasive imaging (i.e., years of follow-up compared with CT imaging (2.1% years of follow-up compared with CT imaging (2.1%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 15, 2025

Contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) has a slightly higher mean glandular dose (MGD) than other breast imaging modalities, according to research published January 15 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. Mean glandular dose (MGD) of breast imaging modalities Mammography DBT Combined mammography-DBT CEM (overall) Median MGD (mGy) 4.07

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AuntMinnie

MAY 7, 2024

To that end, Wright and colleagues have conducted preclinical work to develop MRI animal models for assessing mTBI and have recently begun to see their findings validated in human clinical studies. We then wanted to take this work and look at this in a clinical setting to see whether there were similar findings,” Wright said.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 23, 2024

The researchers also suggested that decision-support tools can be implemented to choose lower-energy imaging tests when appropriate. Carbon dioxide emissions vary by imaging modality and are higher for MRI and CT compared with ultrasound and x-rays.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Since 2020, Kessler and colleagues have been conducting an ongoing prospective trial investigating Ga-68 FAPI-PET/CT or PET/MRI and its impact on clinical management for staging or restaging various cancer tumors as part of clinical care. In this study, the researchers analyzed data on 62 patients with suspected pancreatic cancer.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 7, 2024

years within Stanford Hospital’s benign pancreas clinic and endoscopy unit. One was a radiologist with more than five years of ultrasound experience who was blinded to clinical data. The other was a gastroenterologist with four hours of ultrasound training who was not blinded to the clinical data.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2024

ChatGPT demonstrates modest accuracy when assigning BI-RADS scores for mammograms and breast ultrasound exams, according to research published October 30 in Clinical Imaging. Previous reports suggest that large language models can correctly recommend appropriate imaging modalities for patients based on their clinical presentation.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 3, 2024

While F-18 FDG-PET/CT is an accurate imaging modality for detecting melanoma metastases, data on its baseline prognostic value in these patients are scarce, they added. A 49-year-old patient with primary clinical stage III melanoma underwent F-18 FDG-PET. The primary tumor Breslow thickness was 6.5

Nuclear Medicine 312

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AuntMinnie

JULY 16, 2024

Our research demonstrates that this Tc-99m FAPI imaging modality holds promise in visualizing fibroblast activation following [myocardial infarction] and evaluating fibrotic changes,” the researchers wrote.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 9, 2025

Cincinnati Childrens and GE HealthCare are forming a strategic research program with the goal of advancing innovation for pediatric care delivery across imaging modalities, including MRI, ultrasound, molecular imaging, and CT.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 8, 2024

Because conventional imaging methods offer limited assistance in the early stages of ILD, the findings underscore the potential utility of FAPI PET/CT as an imaging modality for diagnoses, according to a statement from SNMMI. Comparative analysis involved PET/CT parameters of both tracers.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

Uncovering MACE risks With many factors underlying MACE, radiologists and data scientists have been mining various regions of interest on cardiac CT images to bring potentially useful predictive and prognostic tools to the forefront. insurance claims data to study the clinical adoption of medical AI devices in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A team led by Florence Doo, MD, from the University of Maryland in Baltimore outlined strategies on how radiologists can better practice sustainability when implementing AI into their clinical workflows. Imaging systems AI can also streamline workloads and decrease energy use in imaging modalities, the researchers highlighted.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

“Data could potentially be used to establish performance benchmarks and better comprehend the developmental trajectories of residents, although variability among subspecialties and imaging modalities suggests that one size does not fit all,” the authors wrote. by third-year residents, 15.9%

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The British Institute of Radiology

JUNE 8, 2023

In the third blog of her series on AI and the radiographer, Shamie Kumar explores the impact on the radiographer when AI is integrated within an imaging modality. The question to explore in this blog is when AI is integrated within an imaging modality itself and how that may impact a radiographer.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Adversarial attacks on medical AI image classifiers are problematic because they can fool both the diagnosis model and radiologists themselves. Motivations for adversarial attacks on medical AI can range from unsafe diagnosis to insurance fraud to influencing clinical trial results.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 22, 2024

Which modality is better for breast cancer diagnosis, contrast-enhanced mammography or dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI? It depends on a variety of factors, according to a review published May 20 in Radiology Clinics. Breast MRI is effective for imaging patients with implants, as it can assess the integrity of the implants.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 18, 2024

Stockholm, Sweden-based image enhancement developer ContextVision is establishing clinical and commercial partnerships to expand into the data quality market.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 29, 2024

Asterisks indicate those presented in the article, with reference numbers provided in square brackets and the imaging modality for which the super phantom is intended in round brackets. Image courtesy of Communications Engineering. Examples of test objects that the authors classify as super phantoms.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ultrasound's utility will be on full display at this year's RSNA annual meeting, showing its merit in a wide variety of clinical applications. Research to be presented at the annual meeting in Chicago will explore the modality's clinical applications in musculoskeletal, pediatric, abdominal, and women's imaging among other areas.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 19, 2024

The group -- which included radiologists, MRI technologists, radiology and outpatient clinic nursing staff, anesthesiologists, and a pediatrician -- identified particular stages in the imaging process where delays could occur. The hospital performs 32,000 MRI exams per year.) The complete study can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Its core technology is a deterministic shape recognition algorithm that yields consistent results on multiple imaging modalities, including mammography, ultrasound, CT, and MRI, the company said. 501[k] clearance) for diagnostic radiology and for reviewing clinical images.

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Associates in Medical Imaging

APRIL 23, 2021

Today, PET/CT is the fastest growing diagnostic imaging modality, and for good reason. PET/CT scans combine two different types of imaging capabilities in a single procedure using one machine. Unlike other imaging modalities such as MRI and CT, PET/CT scans show metabolic changes at the cellular level in an organ or tissue.

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