AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A group in Japan has developed and tested an elastic x-ray shield made by embedding bismite particles in porous polyurethane, and suggests the new shielding material could provide more comfortable radiation protection. “It The DRF was approximately 80% for a typical diagnostic x-ray acquired at 70 kV, according to the findings. “It

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Everything Rad

APRIL 14, 2025

Reading Time: 4 minutes read New CDC Proposal Suggests Allowing Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners to Read Chest X-rays. Would these professionals feel confident to interpret a chest x-ray? Asking the question, who should be responsible for the cost of certification and renewal, the individual or the hospital?

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Everything Rad

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Reading Time: 10 minutes read By Henry Williams, Carestream Area Vice President, Sales Western Nowadays, with hospital budgetary restrictions at the forefront of the purchasing decision making process, it seems like the X-Ray market, like everything else, is not immune to the current state of the economy.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It's a question researchers at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Canterbury Christ Church University have asked as part of their prospective, randomized, multisite trial currently open and underway in the U.K. UCLH has produced 9,217 chest x-rays from 8,072 patients. The other 102 were prioritized.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 20, 2024

A commercially available AI algorithm shows potential for off-label use as a way to generate automatic reports for “unremarkable” chest x-rays, according to a study published August 20 in Radiology. To explore the issue, Plesner and colleagues evaluated Enterprise CXR (version 2.2, Annalise.ai ), software cleared in Europe and the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 13, 2024

An AI algorithm can help identify rare tumors on upper arm bones in patients undergoing chest x-rays – findings not typically identified in daily reading practice, according to an article published March 6 in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. The incidence of primary malignant bone tumors in the U.S. of these located in the humerus.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Researchers led by ShivendraRai, MD, from King Georges Medical University in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, found that LUS scoring predicts surfactant administration better than chest x-ray in preterm neonates of 34 weeks' gestation admitted within 12 hours of birth with clinical suspicion of RDS. Of the total newborns, 67.2%

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

CHICAGO -- German researchers are testing ways to support nonradiologists in interpreting chest x-rays in emergency settings using an AI assistant. To test the AI algorithm, the LMU team focused on 563 cases, all ordered by the emergency unit department. Nonradiology residents 0.78

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A group in Seoul, Korea, has developed an AI model that could help reduce radiology workflows by identifying “no changes” in follow-up chest x-rays of patients in critical care, according to a study published October 24 in Radiology. Image courtesy of Radiology. The researchers included 3.3 The algorithm achieved an AUC of 0.77

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 11, 2024

AI-assisted triage of lung x-rays using commercially available software could help reduce turnaround times in real-world settings by 77%, according to an article published October 10 in the European Journal of Radiology. In this study, the researchers integrated the software into their hospital’s PACS. were normal, 61.2%

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

. | M4-SSMK03-4 | Room E450A A deep-learning AI model will be presented in this session that can predict bone mineral density T-scores from chest x-rays. They then trained the algorithm on a data set of 47,150 x-rays (23,151 patients) and validated it on an external data set of 2,914 radiographs (1,515 patients).

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 8, 2024

Canadian x-ray manufacturer KA Imaging and the charity Kenyan Kids Foundation Canada (KKFC) are collaborating to bring advanced medical imaging technology to Kenya. The project has an estimated cost of $100,000, which includes Reveal 35C, the x-ray source, software – including AI software for triage – and training.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 29, 2024

In a clinical trial in Sweden, researchers measured Cobb angles on x-rays in participants using the strategy combined with physical activity and found the intervention prevented spinal curve progression, noted lead author Anastasios Charalampidis, MD, PhD, of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Allegheny Health Network's (AHN) Allegheny Valley Hospital (AVH) in Natrona Heights, PA has completed a $12 million expansion and renovation of its imaging and radiology department. A new mobile imaging pad outside the hospital also now supports rotating MRI and PET/CT capabilities.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 29, 2024

Ordering x-rays after removing chest tubes from lung surgery patients does not lead to meaningful change in patient management and prolongs hospital stays, according to a study published July 26 in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All patients who had any symptoms underwent a chest x-ray.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The popular AI chatbot tends to over-order X-rays, prescribe too many antibiotics and admit too many patients to the hospital when compared with a resident emergency department physician.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 6, 2023

University of Iowa Health Care also has agreed to mandate that physicians receive training on Medicare's requirements for reimbursement in a teaching setting.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The research comes out of Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea and the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands on the feasibility of relying on multimodal generative AI in TB detection. National Library of Medicine, and an AI report generation model (karacxr.ai) available online for research purposes.

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Imaging Technology

MARCH 8, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 03/08/2024 - 22:02 March 9, 2024 — DeepTek.ai, a leading medical imaging AI company, will showcase its groundbreaking US FDA -cleared chest X-ray reporting AI solution, Augmento X-Ray , at the upcoming HIMSS 2024 conference, taking place March 12th-14th, 2024, at booth #4661. With over 1.5 With over 1.5

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

While services for breast and lung cancer screening were temporarily halted, imagers in x-ray, lung ultrasound, and PET/CT were busy examining patients who presented with COVID-19. Imaging technologists meanwhile were reallocated across the hospital system to assist in various departments.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 13, 2025

In her presentation, Vronique Suttels, PhD, from Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland discussed her teams findings, showing that AI POCUS interpretation fulfills requirements by the World Health Organization (WHO) for a nonsputum TB triage test. This, in turn, would improve triaging for early detection and treatment, Suttels added.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 18, 2024

National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released to the public a database of more than 100,000 chest x-rays and corresponding data. The NIH Clinical Center is the country's largest hospital devoted entirely to clinical research, and patients who are seen there voluntarily agree to participate in clinical trials.

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Radiology Business

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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Radiology Business

JULY 28, 2023

Researchers with NYC Health + Hospitals detailed their large-scale quality improvement in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 18, 2023

An AI model has been trained to estimate the age of patients from chest x-rays. Read more on AuntMinnie.com Related Reading: Can adult-based AI models apply to pediatric chest x-ray imaging?

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Professional Radiology

JUNE 21, 2022

X-rays are standard procedures performed to diagnose and assess a variety of conditions or health concerns. What is the role of X-rays in medicine and how do they help improve people’s overall health? What is the role of X-rays in medicine and how do they help improve people’s overall health?

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AuntMinnie

MAY 4, 2023

Read more on AuntMinnie.com Related Reading: Pneumonia patterns on chest x-rays may underlie viral infection Study offers strategies for using AI with chest x-rays to detect ARDS AI model developed for endotracheal tube placements in children Chest x-rays predict outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients AI proves useful for confirming negative findings (..)

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Carestream Health has launched a new x-ray system called Horizon for small-to-midsize imaging centers, orthopedic facilities, urgent care centers, and hospitals. It is also available without the table in a floor-mount configuration for chest x-rays or chiropractic imaging. Carestream's new Horizon x-ray system.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 28, 2025

to 46 kilotons for x-ray, and 2.7 But this work is the first to estimate the carbon emissions of inappropriate imaging, and it highlights an additional reason to reduce unnecessary imaging, according to the investigators. to 136 kilotons for MRI; 25 to 178 kilotons for CT; 7.1 to 23 kilotons for ultrasound. kilotons per year.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

AI improves chest x-ray imaging interpretation by nonradiologist practitioners, which could be useful in low-resource settings, according to research published January 29 in Chest. Chest x-rays are the go-to modality for assessing whether or not a disease requires immediate treatment. Pneumothorax 92.8% Nodules 74.6%

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 11, 2023

has developed neural networks for interpreting chest x-rays that could help speed the adoption of AI systems in clinical settings, according to a study published December 8 in The Lancet Digital Health. To that end, the group first compiled the largest chest x-ray data set to date in the U.K. million frontal x-rays.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 1, 2024

for digital x-ray 0.9% But the investigators also noted that radiologists interpreted nearly all outpatient hospital, inpatient, and emergency department exams compared to those conducted in an office setting. X-ray -- -- 97.9% This overall percentage varied by modality, the group reported: 97.3% Ultrasound 0.4%

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Imaging Technology

MARCH 8, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 03/08/2024 - 22:02 March 9, 2024 — DeepTek.ai, a leading medical imaging AI company, will showcase its groundbreaking US FDA -cleared chest X-ray reporting AI solution, Augmento X-Ray , at the upcoming Health Information Management Systems Society conference, HIMSS 2024 , taking place March 12th-14th, 2024, at booth #4661.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

Canceled appointments are an inevitable part of a radiology department's — and a hospital's — operations. Loss of provided service revenue Radiology services can be a big profit generator for hospitals. As the population ages and preventive measures become more commonplace, there is a heightened demand for CT scans, MRIs, and x-rays.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Dear Digital X-Ray Insider, RSNA 2023 wrapped up in Chicago recently, with a bevy of digital x-ray studies presented at the meeting. We’ve featured one more here: an AI study conducted in Zambia testing an algorithm developed by Google to detect tuberculosis on chest x-rays. That's all for now!

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A team in Europe has launched a novel web application to help radiology trainees gain skills in detecting lung nodules on chest x-rays. To that end, Borgbjerg and colleagues aimed to develop and make available a pure web-based application for perception training in lung nodule detection in chest x-rays.

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