Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

IR's evolution as a primary specialty, coupled with an "explosion" in diagnostic exams, have contributed to friction between the two professions.

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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. A,B) Images from an initial ultrasound examination showed no identifiable lesions and received a consensus ultrasound category of US-1. Final analysis included 407 patients with a median age of 56 years.

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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. For instance, the global medical imaging AI market 1 is projected to expand eightfold by 2030, reaching an estimated $8.18 Ravinder Singh. Vaibhavi Sonetha, PhD.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Health informatics firm DeepHealth , a subsidiary of RadNet , has made an agreement with ConcertAIs TeraRecon business to incorporate TeraRecons AI-enabled diagnostic tools into DeepHealths cloud-native platform and diagnostic suite to create a unified diagnostic radiology workspace.

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Professional Radiology

APRIL 17, 2023

Diagnostic Imaging is a great tool for your medical professional to use to detect issues sooner rather than later. There are several types of diagnostic imaging available today; each one used to visualize the internal structures of the body to assist doctors in diagnosis and treating various diseases and medical conditions.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

A significant percentage of imaging studies ordered by office-based healthcare providers are self-interpreted rather than referred to radiologists for reading, according to researchers from the Harvey L. million office-based imaging claims for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022 that were ordered by nonradiologists.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

The crew will be in orbit for three to five days and will conduct more than 20 science experiments, including taking images of each other with an ultraportable x-ray machine. EDT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2025

PET/CT scans with an experimental prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) imaging agent can identify supraclavicular nodal metastasis in newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients, researchers have reported. Image and caption available for republishing under Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0 DEED, Attribution 4.0

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 1, 2024

However, most women in the study also believed that radiologists should still be involved in the screening process and that AI should be limited to an assistant role. 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."

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 18, 2024

A radiologist’s perception when viewing a complex MR image may be akin to a Major League Baseball (MLB) batter reading the stitches on a fastball, according to researchers exploring exactly how diagnostic interpretations are made. Nine labs from around the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 16, 2025

Oxford Brain Diagnostics' CDM Insights software has been granted 510(k) clearance by the U.S. tesla and 3-tesla scanners and delivers outputs in the form of images and numerical values. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It processes clinical MRI scan data from both 1.5-tesla The company said the software will be available to all U.S.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 18, 2024

Consulting with a radiologist boosts patients' attitudes towards lung cancer screening (LCS) and their interest in quitting smoking, researchers have reported. The results were published April 17 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. The meetings took place in a radiology reading room immediately after imaging.

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Health Imaging

AUGUST 2, 2024

American College of Radiology CEO Dana Smetherman, MD, is a diagnostic radiologist who specializes in breast imaging. She spoke to Health Imaging about some key issues that have her attention in 2024 and beyond.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Radiology practices can create a more welcoming environment for radiologists returning from parental leave who breastfeed, according to a paper published November 26 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. Previous reports suggest that radiologists cite time, space, and support as barriers to breastfeeding.

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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. But getting ready for an uptick in musculoskeletal imaging doesn’t have to be daunting, according to Tim Klostermeier, MD, from UC Health in Cincinnati, OH.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The finding is from a study that validated a fast protocol in 121 clinical patients, with seven independent readers giving the algorithm high scores for reducing image noise and improving image sharpness, noted lead author Jan Vosshenrich, MD, of New York University in New York City, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 20, 2023

billion on service-related expenses for diagnostic imaging equipment, according to the recently published IMV 2023 Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Service Outlook Report. Click here to sign up for the IMV Survey panel today and share your knowledge of diagnostic imaging. In 2022, U.S. This is a 13.3%

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2025

When radiologists interpretations are indeterminate, a commercially available deep learning algorithm could find clinically significant prostate cancer with improved specificity while maintaining sensitivity, suggested research published March 11 in Radiology. A radiologist also detected the lesion and assigned it PI-RADS 4 (arrow in A-C).

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The use of AI in thoracic imaging has begun to demonstrate "cumulative evidence of effectiveness," but more testing and research are needed to determine its feasibility for this application, according to a commentary published February 25 in Radiology. van Beek, MD, of the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. in an accompanying editorial.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 2, 2024

In healthcare, algorithms hold the promise of increasing efficiency and, potentially, diagnostic accuracy. Radiology is ground zero for many of these innovations, and increasingly radiologists are being asked to take the lead in helping the healthcare system make the most of these technological breakthroughs. The examples are many.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

Out-of-network billing by radiologists – often referred to as “surprise billing” – dropped significantly beginning in 2007 and imaging claims are now almost completely in network, according to a recent study. In an analysis of billing trends, the rate of out-of-network (OON) imaging claims declined from 12.6% in 2007 to 1.1%

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2024

CHICAGO Philips brought a range of new AI-enhanced offerings to RSNA 2024 aimed at bolstering efficiency and improving workflows for radiologists and radiologic technologists. The goal is to shorten complex MRI exams and improve workflow for radiologists, according to the vendor. tesla BlueSeal MR wide-bore scanner.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

PET/CT imaging can serve as a metabolic guide to increase the accuracy of needle biopsies in patients with suspicious lung nodules, according to a study published January 18 in the European Journal of Radiology. Image courtesy of the European Journal of Radiology. A team that included researchers in the U.K., Greece, and the U.S.

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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

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

JANUARY 29, 2024

A thyroid ultrasound imaging database could spur the development of more effective diagnostic and treatment models for related diseases, according to research published January 23 in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. It also introduced a marker mask inpainting (MMI) method to erase artificial markers and improve image quality.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 3, 2025

If MRI prostagram should prove to be a good screening tool for prostate cancer, urologists are going to have a lot of work on their hands, and radiologists will be needed to overcome this burden, said the U.K. MRI reports should include a quality reference remark that precedes the diagnosis, explained radiologist Jelle Barentsz, MD, PhD.

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TRA Medical Imaging

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

When it comes to your health, selecting the right diagnostic imaging center is an important decision. Whether you’re getting a routine scan or investigating a specific health concern, the imaging center you choose can significantly impact the accuracy of your diagnosis and the quality of care you receive.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

ChatGPT-4 has greater diagnostic accuracy than ChatGPT-3.5 when assessing text-based medical imaging cases, a study published January 16 in Radiology found. Large language models such as ChatGPT have interested radiologists within the past year for their ability to comprehend and generate human-like text. between ChatGPT-3.5

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 21, 2024

Founded in 1943, the private practice has a network of 16 diagnostic imaging facilities overseen by its staff of "deeply" subspecialized radiologists.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 3, 2025

Onsite Womens Health, an in-office breast health and imaging services provider, has acquired the Katherine M. Onsite has been partnering with breast-focused radiologists to offer a suite of breast health services that drive breast cancer screening compliance rates, according to the company. Breast Center in Columbus, OH.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 24, 2024

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association licensee is attempting to curtail the delivery of multiple diagnostic imaging exams on a single patient during a single healthcare encounter.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

As a new year begins, we asked radiologists to weigh in on what has impressed them most and what might be next for GPT. Bera was the lead author of an October 2023 article published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology that assessed literature on ChatGPT in radiology published between January 26 and August 14, 2023.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Researchers led by Noam Nissan, MD, PhD, from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York found that menopausal status, lactation, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and tamoxifen therapy affect the degree of BPE enhancement, an imaging biomarker. Images and caption courtesy of the RSNA.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

“Our results reinforce the assumption that AI must be monitored," researchers wrote in the journal Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Eliot Siegel, MD, of the University of Maryland shares his perspective on the rapidly emerging area of theranostics and the potential for interventional molecular radiology to join diagnostic radiology and interventional radiology as a third pathway for radiology and nuclear medicine trainees.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Researchers in Germany created an AI model that outperforms others in diagnostic accuracy when given access to clinical data that goes beyond an X-ray image.

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