AuntMinnie

JANUARY 14, 2025

With radiologists facing their fifth consecutive pay cut due to the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, radiology practices are approaching hospital partners for stipends to continue offering their advanced services. Radiology professionals and groups must prepare now to adapt and thrive in this complex landscape.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In a study described as a “competition between radiologists,” participants tasked with identifying abnormal findings on chest x-rays performed better with AI assistance than without AI assistance – though not by much and not in all cases, according to a group in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The findings were published February 21 in the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal. Of 5,257 women screened, 247 underwent biopsies, and of these, 32 were diagnosed with breast cancer (27 invasive and 5 ductal carcinoma in situ). out of 1,000 women screened with breast ultrasound. The complete study can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 6, 2024

A deep-learning model performs comparably to an abdominal radiologist when it comes to finding clinically significant prostate cancer on MRI, researchers have reported. External 0.86 External 0.86

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 3, 2025

MRI and ultrasound have tradeoffs in diagnosing peripheral neuropathies of the upper extremity, a study published March 4 in Radiology found. High-resolution imaging provides important pathomorphological information in diagnosing peripheral nerve disorders. MRN and HRUS are two imaging techniques that have shown promise in this area.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 22, 2024

Sports radiologists are preparing for another fall season of high-contact sports, and that means brushing up on protocols and emphasizing teamwork among one's clinician colleagues. I love the role I play in diagnosing and treating these athletes. Football, basketball, and hockey oh my!

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) headsets show promise for helping clinicians interpret CT exams -- even for conditions such as diverticulitis, which can be tricky to diagnose, researchers have reported. Six radiologist readers rated the exams on a six-level scale for the condition (1 = no diverticulitis, 6 = diverticulitis).

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 20, 2024

Radiologist Dharmesh Patel, MD, is eligible for a mental health diversion program instead of going to trial for attempted murder in driving his car and family off a Bay Area cliff last year, a San Mateo County, CA, Superior Court judge ruled. Patel has been diagnosed with major depressive disorder.

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 1, 2024

Colorado University physicians believe the facility is vital, given a growing number of patients diagnosed with chronic renal disease.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This includes glimpses of what the future may hold for radiologists in women’s imaging and other specialties. Contrast imaging techniques have tradeoffs in diagnosing breast cancer Monday, December 2 | 8:00 a.m.-8:10 High-res PET/CT on par with MRI for diagnosing breast cancer extent Tuesday, December 3 | 4:40 p.m.-4:50

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) is a widely used approach for diagnosing patients with prostate cancer and reduces the need for invasive biopsies in approximately 30% of cases, Brembilla explained. Our preliminary data confirmed the potential increase of sensitivity of the combined use of PSMA PET with MRI compared to each modality alone.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

While the pandemic affected medical operations across the country, the experts said that radiologists developed and honed their sense of resiliency as imaging was placed on the front lines. Kazerooni, meanwhile, said that radiologists are resilient and creative, which can help with solving problems on an emergent basis.

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Imaging Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

12, 2025 Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, has published a case study by clinicians in the pulmonary and radiology departments at ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco (Milan, Italy) demonstrating the use of Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) to help definitively diagnose diaphragm dysfunction. tim.hodson Fri, 02/14/2025 - 15:14 Feb.12,

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Our research is showing that we are missing opportunities to diagnose disease early, Monticciolo told AuntMinnie.com. We need to have women, radiologists, and clinicians recognize these trends are not favorable and we have to reverse them if were going to save womens lives. Theyre the ones that really dropped out during the pandemic.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2025

Rad AI Reportings generative AI features aim to save radiologists time and reduce fatigue by automatically generating draft report text in seconds and reducing dictated words by up to 90%, the company said. The company also highlighted its Rad AI Continuity, which aims to help ensure that patients are being properly diagnosed and treated.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Weighing in on child abuse allegations in Canada, a Pennsylvania State University radiologist has cautioned pediatricians who use couched and statistically meaningless language in their reports, the Toronto Star reports.

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TRA Medical Imaging

JANUARY 17, 2025

Becoming a radiologist requires an extraordinary level of dedication, education, and training. Radiologists are medical doctors who specialize in interpreting imaging studies like X-rays, CT scans, MRIs, and ultrasounds to diagnose and guide treatment for various conditions.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

Large language models such as ChatGPT have interested radiologists within the past year for their ability to comprehend and generate human-like text. However, the researchers pointed out that it remains to be seen how upgrades in ChatGPT improve performance in providing diagnoses in radiology cases. percentage points over ChatGPT-3.5

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Vesta Teleradiology

APRIL 15, 2025

Across the United States, radiologist shortages are creating a ripple effect that many patients never seeuntil theyre left waiting. Theyre part of a larger trend, driven by a persistent imbalance between the number of radiologists available and the ever-growing demand for diagnostic imaging. Waiting for a diagnosis.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 13, 2024

Automation represents the current value of AI in the hospital emergency department (ED), a Yale University emergency radiologist shared last week at the 124th American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Boston. We diagnose almost 180,000 pathologies as radiologists. It's a lot harder for us to onboard AI," Davis said. "We

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Chest x-ray is used to diagnose RDS, but LUS has emerged as a reliable bedside tool for monitoring respiratory conditions in preterm infants. The NICU team was blinded to LUS findings while the radiologist was blinded to the x-ray chest report. They underwent a clinical exam, followed by a chest x-ray and LUS.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 8, 2025

A team led by Su Min Ha, MD, PhD, from Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea reported that AI by itself achieved a higher performance than radiologists with no AI help when it came to detecting contralateral breast cancer in women treated with unilateral mastectomy. The radiologists had 10 and 17 years of experience, respectively.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Sonographic imaging descriptors and histopathological diagnoses are needed for more accurate assessment of benign breast lesions, suggest findings published February 3 in BMC Womens Health. BI-RADS 4c and 5 categories indicate strong to certain malignancy for breast cancer and prompt biopsy.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This information may prompt radiologists to consider how their current models of care delivery may impact patients access and use of diagnostic breast imaging services and how it may lead to differences in care across patient subgroups," Lawson told AuntMinnie.com. The full study can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 9, 2024

A team led by Pae Sun Suh, MD, from the University of Ulsan in Seoul, South Korea found that while ChatGPT-4V did not achieve as high an accuracy as radiologists, it showed promise as a supportive diagnostic tool. Suh and co-authors studied the performance of these two models in generating differential diagnoses at different temperatures.

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Health Imaging

MARCH 24, 2025

By the time the patient was diagnosed with advanced stage lung cancer, his tumor was double the size it was when it first appeared on imaging in 2017.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 2, 2023

No matter the experience level, radiologists are prone to automation bias whe. Read more on AuntMinnie.com Related Reading: AI proves comparable to rads for assessing BI-RADS 4 breast lesions AI, radiologists match when it comes to classifying breast density Is ChatGPT appropriate for breast radiology?

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MedImaging Radiography

MARCH 4, 2024

A new meta-analysis reveals that AI algorithms, especially CNNs, are highly effective in detecting wrist fractures from plain X-rays, performing on par with trained healthcare professionals.

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ScienceDaily

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Multi-sequence knee magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an advanced non-invasive diagnostic method for knee pathology. However, MRI interpretation is highly time-consuming and heavily dependent on expertise.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

A team led by Jan Rudolph, MD, from University Hospital, LMU Munich in Germany found that a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based AI system focusing on chest x-rays improved the performance of nonradiologists in diagnosing several chest pathologies. “In

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 30, 2024

Radiologists can help reduce unnecessary follow-up work in patients with suspected oropharynx cancer by analyzing certain metrics on PET/CT scans, according to a team of head and neck surgeons at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Further analysis revealed that these diagnosed patients had higher F-18 FDG mean ipsilateral radiotracer uptake.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 22, 2024

AI algorithms, meanwhile, aim to aid radiologists and other medical practitioners who use ultrasound in image interpretation and lessen workloads. ChatGPT-4 successfully placed a box around the lesion and provided a list of differential diagnoses for the outlined nodule, the team reported.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Our results demonstrate that repeatable assessment of disease severity, extent, and progression is challenging even for expert radiologists," the group noted. But assessing imaging features for the condition can be challenging, even for experienced thoracic radiologists. The 13 studies included 6,943 images and 146 radiologists.

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Everything Rad

APRIL 14, 2025

Radiologists complete over 20,000 hours of clinical experience before being certified to interpret radiographic images. While B Readers primary focus is diagnosing occupational lung disease, they are also responsible for recognizing and identifying all clinically important findings.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 5, 2024

Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the U.S. i Thankfully, the field of breast screening is not static, and advancements are revolutionizing how we detect and diagnose the disease. Erik Anderson, president, breast & skeletal health solutions at Hologic.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 29, 2024

Ultrasound is a first-line method in the screening and diagnosing of thyroid nodules. CAD methods have been implemented to aid radiologists, but the researchers noted that it can be difficult to obtain a high-quality and annotated thyroid data set. These markers can impact the performance of CAD models developed to assist radiologists.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 4, 2024

A standardized detection reporting system can help radiologists accurately categorize how breast cancer is identified -- either through screening or symptomatic presentation -- when performing image-guided breast biopsies, researchers have found. These included the following: symptomatic presentations, imaging modalities, and other.

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