Health Imaging
AUGUST 5, 2024
Debra Monticciolo, MD, who has previously led both the Society of Breast Imaging and the American College of Radiology, discussed how different screening strategies may impact patient outcomes.
Radiology Business
AUGUST 7, 2024
Ben White, MD, recently soft-launched the service on his blog , highlighting 10 private practices that are hiring around the U.S.
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AuntMinnie
AUGUST 7, 2024
Radiologists seeking to provide equitable healthcare should establish "cultural dexterity" in their practices -- and there are three principles to follow, according to an article published August 6 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Cultural dexterity describes the ability to recognize, navigate, and value cross-cultural interactions through the application of key tenets of curiosity, respect, and empathy, noted a team led by Brittany Dacier, MD, of Harvard Medical School.
Diagnostic Imaging
AUGUST 8, 2024
New research revealed an 86 percent AUC for deep learning detection of clinically significant prostate cancer in comparison to 84 percent for four abdominal radiologists with at least 10 years of experience.
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Health Imaging
AUGUST 8, 2024
And the more often those among this group drink, the greater their odds are of sustaining a brain bleed, new research suggests.
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AuntMinnie
AUGUST 6, 2024
AI-generated images of physicians are disproportionately white and male, according to a study published August 6 in JAMA Open Network. Researchers asked five popular AI text-to-image platforms to produce images of physicians and found that generated images were more frequently white (82% vs. 63%; p “These biases necessitate closer examination of the training data and algorithms used by AI platforms,” wrote lead author Sang Won Lee, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, and colleagues.
Diagnostic Imaging
AUGUST 5, 2024
Reportedly the only imaging agent to garner a breakthrough therapy designation for cardiac amyloidosis, 124I-evuzamitide has demonstrated robust sensitivity for the condition as well as a favorable safety profile.
Health Imaging
AUGUST 6, 2024
While most safety considerations associated with contrast injections, like hypersensitivity reactions and extravasation, rarely become reality, pain at the injection site is much more common.
Radiology Business
AUGUST 7, 2024
On a same-center basis, MRI volumes increased nearly 12% year over year, while CT grew by 10%, and PET/CT leapt 14%, the Los Angeles-based company said Wednesday.
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AuntMinnie
AUGUST 7, 2024
The use of 3D printing increases user confidence and saves time for procedures, suggest findings published August 6 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Researchers led by Kenneth Wang, MD, PhD, from the Baltimore VA Medical Center in Maryland reported trends for the first three years of the RSNA-American College of Radiology (ACR) 3D Printing Registry.
Diagnostic Imaging
AUGUST 7, 2024
External validation testing revealed a deep learning combination of breast MRI, ultrasound and clinical factors had a 10 percent higher AUC for predicting axillary lymph node metastasis than sole use of MRI- or ultrasound-based deep learning models in patients with breast cancer.
Health Imaging
AUGUST 7, 2024
The protocol integrates CT angiography of the head and neck with the tomography perfusion acquisition, eliminating the need for two separate scans.
Radiology Business
AUGUST 7, 2024
“Reducing the cost and increasing the accessibility of MRI for [clinically significant prostate cancer] is critical for the viability of MRI screening programs," experts wrote.
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AuntMinnie
AUGUST 9, 2024
PET imaging can help identify whether cardiac sarcoidosis patients are at higher risk of major adverse cardiac events (MACE), according to a study published August 7 in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. In a meta-analysis of published cardiac PET studies, researchers found that abnormal FDG uptake and perfusion defect findings were particularly predictive.
ScienceDaily
AUGUST 6, 2024
An AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found that most of the time, a pneumonia diagnosis made in the hospital will change from a patient's entrance to their discharge -- either because someone who was initially diagnosed with pneumonia ended up with a different final diagnosis, or because a final diagnosis of pneumonia was missed when a patient entered the hospital.
Health Imaging
AUGUST 8, 2024
Although much of the energy consumed by imaging departments is unavoidable, experts propose that small, seemingly insignificant changes can be an effective means of reducing radiology’s carbon footprint.
Radiology Business
AUGUST 8, 2024
The college's concerns came in response to a recent RFI from U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Larry Bucshon, MD, R-Ind., on ways to modify healthcare policy.
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AuntMinnie
AUGUST 5, 2024
Editor's note: As part of the celebration of AuntMinnie.com 's upcoming 25th anniversary, we're presenting 25 for 25 -- a series featuring our most popular content for each of the last 25 years. New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. In 2007, our top article offered a deep dive into the association of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) with gadolinium-based contrast agents.
Medical Xpress: Radiology
AUGUST 6, 2024
The Child Mind Institute has released a paper detailing their pioneering study in the journal Nature Human Behaviour titled, "Moving Beyond Processing and Analysis-Related Variation in Resting State Functional Brain Imaging.
Health Imaging
AUGUST 8, 2024
The collaboration is centered on integrating Alara’s dose tools, which ensure radiation doses are accurately measured and optimized to prioritize patient safety, with Bayer's Calantic Digital Solutions platform.
Radiology Business
AUGUST 7, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services revealed the news under the 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule released on Aug.
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Explore the latest insights from the American Cancer Society's “Cancer Statistics 2024” report, which unveils multiple alarming trends in cancer data. Cancer is on the rise among young adults, and diagnoses for 6 of the 10 most common cancers are escalating. With over 2 million new cancer cases projected in the U.S. this year, employers face increased challenges when it comes to supporting employees.
AuntMinnie
AUGUST 9, 2024
In silico imaging trials represent a viable source of regulatory evidence for imaging device evaluation, according to an analysis conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and published August 9 in Plos Computational Biology. In the context of medical devices, an in silico clinical trial (ISCT) is a computational study in which a medical intervention is evaluated using a cohort of computational models of patients, wrote lead author Pras Pathmanathan, PhD, a senior FDA research sci
ScienceDaily
AUGUST 7, 2024
An upright neuroimaging device developed by neuroscientists, physicists and engineers allows patients to move around while undergoing a brain scan.
Health Imaging
AUGUST 6, 2024
Fibroblast activation protein inhibitor PET imaging may provide more accurate insight into the spread of pancreatic cancer than more commonly used 18F-FDG PET/CT.
Radiology Business
AUGUST 6, 2024
South Carolina-based Prisma Health said it opened the facilities to better serve outpatients who require nonurgent imaging.
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