article thumbnail

Road to RSNA 2024: Women's Imaging Preview

AuntMinnie

Women’s imaging at this year’s RSNA reflects momentous changes in trends regarding personalized, targeted healthcare in 2024 for women’s health. Research efforts toward supplemental breast imaging have ramped up in recent years and in Chicago, attendees can see results from these imaging modalities being put to the test.

Imaging 278
article thumbnail

HPI: Nonradiologists interpret more than a third of office-based imaging

AuntMinnie

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Standardized reporting categorizes breast cancer detection methods

AuntMinnie

healthcare system currently does not have a registry requirement to report the method of detection for newly diagnosed breast cancers, which limits efforts to determine how breast cancers are discovered. These included the following: symptomatic presentations, imaging modalities, and other. Together, these accounted for 85.3%

article thumbnail

Italian research team shows the way on sustainability

AuntMinnie

Although the most common site of MBC is bone, there is currently no standardized imaging modality that offers accurate assessment of bone treatment response, Masperi and Girlando explained. To mitigate these effects, low-energy imaging techniques should be prioritized without compromising diagnostic accuracy.

Bone Scan 130
article thumbnail

Microsoft unveils new healthcare AI offerings

AuntMinnie

Microsoft has released several multimodal medical imaging foundation models as part of an expanded portfolio of healthcare AI offerings. The models include the following: MedIimageInsight: An “embedding” model to support image analysis, including classifying and searching for similar medical images.

article thumbnail

How Did We Get Here? The Evolution of Foundation Models in Healthcare

Aidoc

While foundation models are still emerging in healthcare, its principles are rooted in earlier successes across other industries, making the transition to healthcare a natural progression. Example use: Supporting multilingual patient communications or powering real-time clinical decision support in global healthcare settings.

article thumbnail

Surgeon General's alcohol advisory puts patient counseling at the fore

AuntMinnie

We have to be open to counseling patients and open to questions, said Stamatia Destounis, MD, from Elizabeth Wende Breast Care in New York and chair of the American College of Radiologys (ACR) Breast Imaging Commission. and for all [radiologists] to take this on and counsel patients in any way we can.