AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2024

CHICAGO -- When AI in mammography is coupled with a safeguard radiologist review, women are more likely to pay for breast cancer screening mammography if the AI will boost exam results, research presented December 5 at the RSNA meeting suggests. For those enrolled, the clinical practices applied a U.S.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Once again, we had a top-notch group of finalists, presenting our expert voting panel with some very difficult decisions. Middlebrooks, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Erik H. Middlebrooks, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. Middlebrooks, MD.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

"MR enterography has a big strength in mapping, but ultrasound has a big strength in really looking at the bowel wall and assessing features of inflammation," stated course presenter Gauraang Bhatnagar, MD, of Frimley Health National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust in the U.K. "We Other presenters included course chair Prof.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The new technique could allow clinicians to quantify the degree of improvement in ventilation when patients have a treatment via an inhaler, and "could be valuable in clinical trials of new treatments of lung disease," the group noted. Andrew Fisher, PhD, also of Newcastle University.

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AuntMinnie

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. The full study is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2025

Interventional radiologists who excel in communication, positive outcomes, and cultural competence receive high patient ratings, according to a study presented at the recent RSNA meeting.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

They added that this finding was particular for when fibroids were present. They wrote that formal evaluation of patient acceptability, implementation challenges, and cost-effectiveness are needed to estimate the impact of changing recommendations for evaluating postmenopausal bleeding on clinical practice and patient outcomes.

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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. Prompts included, for instance, the following: “Compose a brief presentation of a patient presenting with [CONDITION].

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Medicare population, a study presented at RSNA 2023 found. Aditya Khurana, MD, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, discussed the results he presented with AuntMinnie.com, as well as how they point to quality and workforce challenges.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 30, 2025

ORLANDO The use of low-dose aspirin during pregnancy is not tied to fetal ductal constriction, suggest findings presented March 30 at the 2025 American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) annual convention. Randomized clinical trials have shown that aspirin can reduce or prevent preeclampsia in pregnant women.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2025

This observation was classified on MRI as LR-5, thus meeting the present studys reference standard for diagnosis of HCC. The study authors suggested that for the best use of LI-RADS v2024 in clinical settings, AFP levels should be routinely checked in patients.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 2, 2024

ScreenPoint announced the clearance on December 2 at RSNA in Chicago and noted that several studies at the meeting will present evidence on the clinical and workflow benefits of Transpara 2.1. This temporal comparison capability is the first of its kind in the market, according to the vendor.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 21, 2024

BOSTON -- In a video interview at CMIMI 2024, Nina Kottler, MD, of Radiology Partners shares highlights from her keynote presentation on the clinical deployment of radiology AI. She reviews three key best practices and also offers some advice. Full coverage of Kottler's talk can also be found here.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 15, 2024

Detecting breast arterial calcifications on routine mammograms could identify women at a higher risk of future cardiovascular disease (CVD), a study published March 13 in Clinical Imaging found. They categorized breast arterial calcifications as binary (present/absent) and semi-quantitatively (mild, moderate, severe).

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 18, 2024

PET/CT imaging with F-18 sodium fluoride (NaF) is emerging as a sensitive tool for detecting early atherosclerosis, according to a presentation at the recent Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting. The patients ranged in age from 21 to 75 years old.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We’re once again providing a modality-by-modality overview of select scientific presentations to serve as your guide to events at McCormick Place. In fact, it’s hard to find a scientific session without at least one AI-related presentation. Central Standard Time on November 27 as well as daily presentations from vendors.

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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

JUNE 14, 2024

A recently developed PET radiotracer identified sources of pain in patients with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and led to effective treatments, according to a study presented June 10 at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting. To that end, Baal and colleagues developed F-18 FTC-146.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In a clinical trial, both directly presenting patients and patients transferred to EVT-capable centers benefited from the procedure, with the results highlighting the need for rapid identification of suitable transfer patients, noted lead author Amrou Sarraj, MD, of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

However, they noted that the tool used in the study considers only single chest x-rays it is presented with and does not compare findings with prior radiographs, which would allow consideration of clinically relevant changes between x-rays, nor does the model include relevant clinical context.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The works-in-progress image viewer software will be integrated with Ziosoft’s Revoras platform, which generates simulated environments for exploration, analysis, synthesis, and presentation. Atrena is currently available for clinical use in Japan.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 29, 2024

Achieving health equity with AI in imaging requires overcoming barriers to how the technology analyzes people, according to a presentation given at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting. Yahyavi said that the algorithms used in AI are only as good as the underlying training data.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We’re once again providing a modality-by-modality overview of select scientific presentations to serve as your guide to events at McCormick Place. Many other scientific presentations, scientific posters, educational courses and exhibits, and plenary sessions on AI topics also await attendees. Sunday, December 1 | 9:50 a.m.-10:00

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REBEL EM

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Clinical Scenario: A 6-year-old boy presents to the Peds ED with an injury to their left 2nd digit. On presentation, the patient has a linear laceration the full length of the nailbed and the nail has been avulsed. PMID: 22351556 The post Clinical Conundrum: Do I Have to Replace the Nail After an Avulsion? Am J Emerg Med.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Researchers from donanemab developer Eli Lilly presented a follow-up analysis of data from the TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 clinical trial at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) 2023 conference in Boston.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 14, 2025

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. This approach would yield time savings by adding automation to a process that currently requires radiologists to manually match relevant findings. .the

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 20, 2023

68Ga PSMA PET/CT and prostate MRI may be complementary in both initial diagnosis and therapy planning, including guiding radiation where it may be the appropriate therapeutic approach," presenter Sean Gharai, MD , of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and colleagues noted. Gharai shared the research on November 26.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

While rare, cardiac tumors present unique challenges for clinicians due to symptoms mimicking other conditions. The study included clinical data from 399 patients and evaluated the performance of the models against traditional diagnostic metrics. Localization and characterization of these tumors require advanced imaging.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Radiology technology company NewVue has launched EmpowerSuite, a PACS-integrated digital radiologist command center that uses AI to summarize clinical data and balance radiologists’ reading preferences with workload demand. Also displayed are AI-suggested clinical considerations, recommended follow-up, and case references.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Organizing pneumonia can hide underlying lung cancers in up to 10% of cases, and repeat imaging in the form of PET/CT -- and additional biopsy -- should be considered in patients with high clinical suspicion of malignancy, researchers have reported. The bottom line?

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 6, 2024

A natural language processing (NLP)-based model using information from radiology reports can accurately identify patients presenting in the emergency department (ED) with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), researchers have found. The group's findings were published March 2 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. "[Our

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Patients with COVID-19 experience a higher incidence of anatomical changes at the cardiac level on pulmonary angio-CT, suggest findings presented February 29 at ECR 2024. Ana Filipa Colucas, MD, PhD, presents findings at ECR 2024 on anatomical changes in COVID-19 patients as observed on pulmonary angio-CT. mm,” Colucas said.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Yet several presentations to be given at the meeting reminded us that issues concerning basic elements of x-ray technology remain highly important, as well as whether imaging access is equitable in the "real-world." Here, we’ve highlighted just a small sample of digital x-ray presentations scheduled for RSNA 2023. . | 2:00 p.m. |

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 29, 2024

Imaging features are tied to pathological findings in breast cancer among young women, a study published January 26 in Clinical Imaging found. On breast ultrasound, hyperechoic mass and posterior shadowing presented the most commonly at 70.9% In contrast, these mass shapes were present in just 2.8%

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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

MARCH 19, 2025

The USPSTF recommends DEXA scans in women over 65, but in postmenopausal women under 65, only if theyve been deemed to have low BMD based on a clinical screening tool, the authors explained. Osteoporosis is defined by a bone mineral density (BMD) T-score of -2.5 or lower based on dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 10, 2024

Ultrasound-guided microwave ablation (MWA) is a safe, effective method for treating bone metastases, according to research presented May 9 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting. Jiang however noted that such data on bone metastases is limited. TABLE GOES HERE.

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