AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Microflow imaging can differentiate between benign and malignant breast lesions, suggest findings published October 28 in Clinical Radiology. Microflow imaging and high-definition microflow imaging can detect more blood flow in breast lesions than color Doppler flow imaging…,” Luo and co-authors wrote.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

F-18 FDG-PET is an established approach for diagnosing inflammation based on its ability to visualize increased cellular glucose metabolism, and the researchers hypothesized that it could be useful in patients with neurosarcoidosis.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2024

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. Image courtesy of the European Journal of Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A convolutional neural network (CNN) model used with a one-inhalation lung CT scan protocol can effectively diagnose and stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers have reported. The group's results were published December 12 in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The decreases appeared to be greatest for cancers typically diagnosed via screening, including breast, lung and colorectal cancer.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 5, 2024

F-18 FAPI-PET/CT is superior to F-18 FDG-PET/CT for diagnosing and staging patients with pancreatic cancer, according to a study published January 4 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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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. Images and caption courtesy of the RSNA. Sensitivity 91.6%

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Radiology Business

APRIL 6, 2023

There is little value in deploying CT, MRI or X-ray to diagnose mTBI, experts note, and it may instead result in harm and excess costs.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 19, 2025

The group found the following: LCS adherence and incident cancer diagnoses rates, proportion of early-stage cancers Measure 0 to 12 months after baseline First follow-up Second follow-up Eligible patient adherence -- 61.2% Across three years of follow-up, 279 patients (2.7%) were diagnosed with lung cancer. "To with 1 as reference).

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 16, 2024

F-18 fluorothymidine (FLT) PET can identify early acute gastrointestinal graft versus host disease (GVHD) after patients undergo bone marrow transplants, according to a study published December 13 in Radiology: Imaging Cancer. times greater, the researchers noted. The full study can be found here.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 15, 2024

Ezra charges $950 to $2,500 for exams of healthy individuals and analyzes them with its FDA-cleared software to diagnose cancer and other conditions.

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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. For these reasons, next-generation VR/AR headsets are promising for many applications throughout radiology."

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While COVID and radiology salaries hit the top of AuntMinnie.com's Top 10 most-read posts in 2023, they rounded out the bottom of this year's list. Most-read articles rarely leave out the medicolegal, such as when results of an imaging study are not shared and not addressed, or money matters such as radiology reimbursement.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With 100% of precincts now reporting, we’re finally ready to declare this year’s winners in our annual awards program recognizing excellence in radiology. The voters also zeroed in on the ongoing shortage of radiologists as the Biggest Threat to Radiology. Most Influential Radiology Researcher Minnies 2024 Winner: Erik H.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 1, 2025

An MRI-based radiomics model shows potential for distinguishing low- from high-risk cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), an early form of breast cancer, according to a study published April 1 in Radiology. About 20% of new breast cancers in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 18, 2025

[This study] suggests a differential reliance on decision support related to whether that originated from AI CAD or from a fellow radiologist, the authors wrote in an article published March 18 in Radiology. The observed behavior may attenuate, and underestimate, the potential benefits of AI CAD in screening programs.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A commercially available deep-learning (DL) algorithm can enable good quality seven-minute shoulder MRI exams, according to research published February 18 in Radiology. All seven readers correctly diagnosed the arthroscopy-validated findings. (F) F) An arthroscopic photograph shows the anteroinferior labral tear (arrow).

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Interventional radiologists use minimally invasive image-guided procedures for diagnosing and treating various conditions, including alcohol and thermal tumor ablation techniques. “These findings collectively support the potential benefits of AR systems in enhancing image-guided tumor ablations,” the group wrote.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Attendees can also take advantage of the many educational sessions that will put the spotlight on the complex and challenging aspects of personalized, targeted radiological care. Contrast imaging techniques have tradeoffs in diagnosing breast cancer Monday, December 2 | 8:00 a.m.-8:10 8:10 a.m. | 4:50 p.m. | 10:00 a.m. |

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Radiology Business

APRIL 2, 2025

ACR is teaming with Belgium-based Icometrix, which is providing its brain MRI software to facilities participating in the Alzheimers Network for Treatment and Diagnostics.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2025

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of its QP-Prostate MRI software to help detect and diagnose prostate cancer.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

F-18 FDG-PET/CT is a valuable approach for diagnosing unknown infections in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, according to research published February 20 in Annals of Intensive Care. They determined whether diagnoses were new, which diagnostics were performed before the PET/CT scans, and whether PET/CT resulted in treatment changes.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 14, 2024

In a May 13 letter to representatives Kay Granger (R-TX) and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), the groups noted that in radiology, AI is being used to help read and interpret images and help make more informed diagnoses.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

POCUS allows for real-time evaluation and administration of treatment, without reliance on facility-based scanning, i.e. radiology departments, and avoidance of unnecessary tertiary care referral is a major benefit, he added. The clinical implementation of point-of-care ultrasound is making steady progress. Courtesy of Dr. Cher Heng Tan.

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Radiology Business

JUNE 12, 2024

The trend may partially be attributable to radiologic diagnoses becoming more common following “widespread deployment of sophisticated imaging technologies."

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Margulis Award for Scientific Excellence to authors of the Radiology article, “A 20-year Follow-up of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program [I-ELCAP].” The annual award recognizes the best original scientific article published in RSNA’s flagship journal, Radiology. The RSNA will present the 2024 Alexander R.

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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. They also studied the radiological characteristics of these masses and identified ultrasound features that could lead to false-positive results.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Although relatively few of these changes will impact radiology practices, it’s essential to know what they are and adjust your practice systems accordingly. Interventional radiology Dorsal Sacroiliac Joint Arthrodesis : New Category I code 27278 will replace Category III code 0775T, and existing code 27279 has been modified.

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Radiology Business

MARCH 3, 2025

Dermatologists increasingly rely on medical imaging modalitiesespecially but not solely ultrasoundto help diagnose complex and diverse skin disorders.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Integrating radiology report features into a deep-learning (DL) algorithm improves the model's ability to identify brain lesions on MRI exams, researchers have reported. Dai's and colleagues' findings were published October 9 in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. The researchers extracted textual features (i.e., Microaveraged AUC 0.89

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

Much has been said of what AI algorithms in radiology can do and how well they have performed during their validation, but much less has been said about inevitable performance degradation over time and what to do about it. Conformal uncertainty quantification may also be simpler to use than other uncertainty quantification methods.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

CT imaging is best for diagnosing suspected intraorbital wooden foreign bodies, although MR imaging does offer valuable supplementary information, according to a study published February 20 in Clinical Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 22, 2024

ChatGPT-4 demonstrated high accuracy in analyzing and interpreting thyroid and renal ultrasound images in a study published March 19 in Radiology Advances. These functionalities indicate the tool's potential to improve radiological workflows by pre-screening and categorizing ultrasound images,” Sultan told AuntMinnie.com.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 6, 2023

ChatGPT shows potential for diagnosing nuclear medicine cases, yet needs further development before it can be implemented in practice, according to a study presented November 28 at RSNA in Chicago. and ChatGPT-4 to the test on nuclear medicine differential diagnoses cases transcribed from two textbooks. hallucinated 41.5%

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Ben White

JUNE 20, 2023

This post is meant to prompt you to do the work of meta-learning: learning about learning, trying to figure out the best ways to learn the art and science of practicing radiology. When it comes to drilling in diagnostic radiology, I also interpret this to mean honing your search pattern/approach.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 31, 2025

A Los Angeles-area radiology group has agreed to pay nearly $2.4 million whistleblower False Claims Act lawsuit involving higher-paying diagnoses codes and radiology report addenda to support them, according to the U.S. million as part of a $62.8 Attorney's Office in the Central District of California.

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