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Artificial Intelligence Embedded Imaging Modality

The British Institute of Radiology

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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Are x-rays necessary after pulling chest tubes?

AuntMinnie

Thoracic surgeons at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, assessed outcomes after implementing a quality improvement initiative in which they ditched x-rays in these patients in favor of clinical observation alone. All patients who had any symptoms underwent a chest x-ray. days vs. 2.3

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AI-Based Analysis of Dynamic Digital Radiography Data Gives Researchers Greater Insight into Lung Function and Pulmonary Disorders

Imaging Technology

Braun , MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine), Icahn Mount Sinai , and a co-author of the study. DDR is a much easier method to capture lung function and it provides more clinical data than PFT alone. Chest radiography is typically acquired in the evaluation of pulmonary disorders.

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FDA Clears Qure.ai's qXR-CTR Chest X-ray Solution as a Potential Indicator for Identifying Heart Failure Risk

Imaging Technology

The qXR-CTR is a deep-learning-based computer vision algorithm designed for use by physicians in all inpatient and outpatient settings, to automate the CTR assessment on chest radiographs (CXR). Tariq Ahmad , Chief, Heart Failure Program - Section of Cardiology, Yale School of Medicine With the FDA clearance of qXR-CTR, Qure.ai

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REBEL Core Cast 107.0 – Vertebral Osteomyelitis

REBEL EM

Take Home Points Clinical presentation is very nonspecific; evaluate all patients presenting with back pain for infectious risk factors. MRI is key to diagnosis, obtain this imaging in all patients who raise clinical suspicion Patients with hemodynamic instability and neurologic compromise warrant empiric antibiotics. 7 th ed.

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Innovation Through a Pandemic – How to survive when there’s nothing to report

The British Institute of Radiology

A period of uncertainty, business survival, the protection of our staff and their livelihoods and a readiness to provide a clinical service our patients rely on. Just in one single day in that month, Telemedicine Clinic (TMC) reported over 1400 elective cross-sectional scans to its NHS customer base.

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Journal Scan – This Month in Other Journals, October 2022

AJNR

Patient demographics, aneurysm characteristics, surgical procedures, and clinical outcomes were analyzed. Of the patients with radiographically proven adverse radiation effects (AREs; 15%), 4 were symptomatic. Illustrations and clinical examples with isodose lines are shown in Fig. 3 in the manuscript.

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