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Hip x-rays help screen for osteoporosis in THA patients

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The finding is from a study conducted by a group at the University Hospital Jena in Eisenberg, Germany, that explored whether hip x-rays could be reliable indicators for bone mineral density (BMD) in male and female patients prior to THA procedures. “An

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Can AI help rule out ‘unremarkable’ chest x-rays?

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The finding by researchers in Copenhagen, Denmark, suggests that AI could eventually help streamline high-volume radiology workflows by handling some of the more “tedious parts of the work,” lead author Louis Plesner, MD, of Herlev and Gentofte Hospital in Denmark told AuntMinnie.com.

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The challenges of dysrhythmic radiologists

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A number of years ago, in a small British hospital that must remain nameless, there were two notorious radiologists. I heard of a hospital that hired a radiologist to come in one weekend to help with their reporting backlog of plain radiographs. both Saturday and Sunday and motored through just shy of 2,000 radiographs.

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AI model shows promise for interpreting follow-up chest x-rays

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Radiologists routinely compare the current and previous chest radiographs during interpretation to enhance the sensitivity for change detection and provide information for differential diagnosis. Example of triage of no change in a pair of chest radiographs in the emergency department. (A) Image courtesy of Radiology.

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AI improves x-ray reads for rads with varying experience

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Gleamer) increased sensitivity for detecting all abnormalities on x-rays for all readers (thoracic radiologists, general radiologists, and radiology residents), according to a group of Gleamer consultants and clinicians at Cochin Hospital in Paris. In a retrospective study, a commercially available algorithm (ChestView, v.

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ISMRM: Radiology AI technology is here — and more is coming

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Charlene Liew, MD, director of cardiothoracic imaging at Changi General Hospital in Singapore, outlined the current state of AI in radiology and where it is going in a presentation called "AI in Radiology: The Past Informs the Future."

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Opportunity for osteoporosis check on lumbar spine plain radiographs

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. | W3-SSMK08-4 | Room E450A A deep learning-based framework for automated screening of osteoporosis on lumbar spine plain radiographs shows potential as another way to opportunistically make use of imaging studies performed for other indications, according to this presentation.