AuntMinnie

MARCH 6, 2024

“Ultrasound contrast agent use can be ubiquitous in interventional practice and can solve many logistical or clinical diagnostic problems,” he said. In ultrasound, contrast use has been shown to improve differentiation of liver lesions and the diagnostic performance of O-RADS in assessing ovarian lesions among other examples.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 20, 2025

Private equity firm HCAP Partners has launched Integrated Diagnostic Services, a mobile diagnostics company focused on expanding access to mobile imaging and lab services. The services are meant for residents of skilled nursing facilities, long-term care facilities, and home health providers.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 5, 2024

The impending diagnostic radiology oral exam should be welcomed for aspiring radiologists, according to an article published January 5 in Academic Radiology. These include the diagnostic radiology qualifying exam and the diagnostic radiology certifying exam. The latter can be taken as early as 12 months after residency.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

Our study showed that the availability of PET/CT prior to the [percutaneous needle lung biopsy] improves the diagnostic biopsy rates,” wrote lead author Konstantinos Stefanidis, MD, of King’s College Hospital in London, and colleagues. A team that included researchers in the U.K., Greece, and the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To address the knowledge gap, the team evaluated the benefit of using PI-RADS upgrading rules with MRI-directed diagnostic sequences. But evidence as to how this type of upgrade impacts various pathways for diagnosing prostate cancer is unclear.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine of the Moscow Healthcare Department in Russia is highlighting ultrasound training phantoms it has created, including a fetal phantom, that aims to help sonographers-in-training. It is the tenth model developed by the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 30, 2025

Chiao, a former NASA astronaut and ISS commander, was part of the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity(ADUM) project. Chiao told personal stories of his time in space, along with how ultrasound findings have helped in developing health measures and diagnostic protocols for spaceflight.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 15, 2025

By applying [deep learning] to MR imaging, our study opens new avenues for enhancing diagnostic accuracy and efficiency in detecting endometriosis," the authors noted. The group's findings were published April 15 in Abdominal Radiology. "By The complete study can be found here.

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Radiology Business

MAY 24, 2024

Consulting firm Vizient published its fifth annual imaging trends report, highlighting issues such as staffing, remote scanning, AI, sustainability and "systemness."

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 22, 2024

Awan, MD, and colleagues detailed their advice in an Educational Perspective piece published Aug. 17 by Academic Radiology.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Affinity Equity Partners is buying 30-year-old Lumus Imaging, which employs over 2,000 imaging experts and support staff across 150 care sites.

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Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

CMS is moving forward with a proposal to issue separate reimbursement for radiopharmaceuticals—a change long lobbied for by the imaging industry.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

It’s been two and a half years since Microsoft completed its acquisition of Nuance Communications for a reported $19.7 At the time of the March 2022 transaction, Microsoft said it liked Nuance for its core strengths—AI-powered voice recognition and related software and services—across numerous industries.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The reported median, 25th and 75th percentile compensation for IR faculty were consistently higher than DRs, 2017-2023 AAMC data show.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, radiology often forms the foundation of diagnostics and treatment for hundreds of other departments including cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, oncology, and even dermatology. Without access to a given EMR, it becomes impossible for different doctors to view diagnostic scans and other data relating to the patient’s condition.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2025

A team led by radiologists in Nairobi, Kenya, found metastases in supraclavicular (SC) lymph nodes in 8% of a large group of patients, and the group suggested adding consideration of the site during the initial diagnostic workup of patients.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS) Foundation has announced the cohort for its 2025 SDMS Foundation Emerging Leaders Program. Participants engage in dialogue and projects related to the future of the diagnostic medical sonography profession.

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JULY 10, 2024

An emphasis on remote work since the COVID-19 pandemic and growing desire for work-life balance among medical trainees have likely fueled increased competition in DR.

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MARCH 24, 2025

The HCAP Partners-backed group will provide X-ray, ultrasound, EKGs and lab work, serving as a cheaper alternative to hospitals.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The specialty has seen a notable rise in applications among aspiring radiology residents and a corresponding uptick in competitiveness, experts write in Academic Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

It's mostly to prove that the equipment works and we can acquire images that are diagnostic and that this tool can then be used in the future to assist in more hypothesis-driven work, he said.

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JULY 12, 2024

"The failure of CMS to make virtual supervision permanent is certainly disappointing,” attorney and radiology policy expert Tom Greeson wrote Thursday.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

Previous studies have demonstrated that imaging overuse is pervasive in the ED, with “defensive medicine” a common reason, experts wrote in JAMA Network Open.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 11, 2025

Medical imaging is the economic artery of modern diagnostics, with AI-driven advancements prompting clinicians to rethink how they interpret scans. It signifies the sectors accelerating adoption of AI-driven diagnostics, shifting what was once a supplementary tool into a linchpin of modern radiology. Ravinder Singh.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Choi team compared the diagnostic performance of LI-RADS v2024 with that of LI-RADS v2017 for detecting HCC in at-risk patients. Diagnostic performance of radiologists using LI-RADS Measure Radiologist 1 Radiologist 2 LI-RADS v2024 Sensitivity 64.3% It also identified predictors of VIS-C scoring on follow-up surveillance exams.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 16, 2025

Hence, in this study, the researchers evaluated the impact of different AI use scenarios on diagnostic outcomes and interpretation times for LDCT lung cancer screening in a real-world lung cancer screening population.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Bracco Imaging and Zereau have signed an agreement to launch the second stage of their collaborative research program aimed at reducing contrast media in wastewater by using sustainable urine filtration systems in hospitals and diagnostic facilities.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 8, 2025

Deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) was highly aligned with F-18 FDG-PET -- a cornerstone of dementia diagnostics -- in patients with Alzheimer's disease in a study published April 8 in Radiology. The authors have overcome numerous technical limitations to create a vision of the future of human metabolic imaging, Port wrote.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Specifically, women want to be fully informed about the use of AI in healthcare and they want to retain human interaction in the diagnostic process." “Our findings suggest that social attitudes to the use of AI to support diagnosis are positive, but women still want human involvement,” Battaglia said.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

These findings advocate for the potential of machine learning in revolutionizing cardiac tumor diagnostics, offering pathways to more accurate, noninvasive, and patient-centric diagnostic processes," the Sadegh-Zadeh team wrote. The researchers highlighted that machine learning techniques could lead to improved diagnostic performance.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The new horizons of advanced imaging, especially in oncology, must increasingly consider not only diagnostic efficacy but also sustainability for patients, prize-winning researchers told ECR 2025 delegates. To mitigate these effects, low-energy imaging techniques should be prioritized without compromising diagnostic accuracy.

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MARCH 24, 2025

Diagnostic and interventional radiology continue to see steady growth in the number of new positions offered to trainees each year, coupled with a high rate of filled roles.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

DL algorithms have been developed over the past five years to reduce these motion artifacts, yet evidence on their diagnostic performance is scarce, the group noted. Patients often have trouble holding their shoulders still for the duration of the scan, which blurs anatomic detail.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

BPE is an important diagnostic and prognostic biomarker, with a higher degreeBPE on imaging being tied to a higher likelihood of developing breast cancer. To minimize further diagnostic interventions, it is crucial to understand its hormonal modulation and how it uniquely manifests in the subgroups studied, they wrote.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Available in two versions -- SE and UE -- the new scanner features a 70 cm design and integrated AI-enabled MR Smart Workflow software, the latter of which increases patient throughput without compromising diagnostic quality, the company said. Philips also highlighted the benefits of ROCC when used with a mobile MRI service.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 18, 2025

of radiologist recall review by AI (p More participants would undergo diagnostic exams for radiologist recalls compared with AI recalls in cases of discrepancy (94.2% Were also exploring how patient attitudes shift when AI is introduced in different clinical settings, like diagnostic versus screening environments, she told AuntMinnie.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 15, 2025

The researchers investigated the hypothesis that "there is a discrepancy with sarcopenia reporting, both with EHR diagnostic coding and with CT reports, versus the actual presence of reduced muscle mass on CT images." Obesity 17.4%

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