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VR/AR helps clinicians diagnose diverticulitis on CT

AuntMinnie

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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AI Diagnoses Wrist Fractures As Well As Radiologists

MedImaging Radiography

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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Bone scans may be viable for diagnosing calciphylaxis

AuntMinnie

Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) methyl diphosphonate (MDP) bone scans are a potentially viable noninvasive option for diagnosing calciphylaxis, according to a team at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, MA. and Canada, which reported the sensitivity of bone scans for diagnosing calciphylaxis to be 62.5%, 89%, and 94.4%.

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Generative AI, radiologist shortages feature in 2024 Minnies

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The voters also zeroed in on the ongoing shortage of radiologists as the Biggest Threat to Radiology. Importantly, we are gaining deeper insights into disease processes themselves, which enhances our ability to diagnose and potentially treat conditions that were previously beyond our reach." But these barriers aren't deal-breakers.

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Diagnosing Pediatric Crohn Disease With Radiomic and Clinical Data

Imaging Technology

Noting that ileal-wall radiomic features were strongly predictive of CD—and that model performance improved when ensembled with clinical data—“a radiomic machine learning model predicted CD diagnosis with better performance than two of three expert radiologists,” wrote corresponding author and AJR Pediatric Imaging Section Editor Jonathan R.

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AI shows potential to diagnose wrist fractures as well as radiologists

Health Imaging

Manual reviews of X-rays remains important, because the true effectiveness of AI is still hard to quantify.

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PET/MRI may help diagnose fevers of unknown origin

AuntMinnie

PET/MRI imaging shows promise in diagnosing fevers or inflammation of unknown origin and may have advantages over PET/CT, according to a study published January 3 in the European Journal of Radiology.

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