Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

12, 2024 — Seno Medical announced its Imagio Breast Imaging System has received an Innovative Technology contract from Vizient, Inc. We are pleased to invite Seno Medical to the Exchange.” tim.hodson Wed, 11/13/2024 - 14:00 Nov. the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Despite reported issues with CT scanning interfering with certain medical devices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said CT is still the preferred imaging modality for patients with medical devices. CT is safer than magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for people with devices of unknown MRI safety status."

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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

Localization and characterization of these tumors require advanced imaging. Echocardiography is the primary imaging modality for this area, but its ability to differentiate between tumor types and determine malignancy is limited. It emphasizes the need for expanded datasets and external validation, the authors noted.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

HOPPR, a Health2047 company, is using the RSNA venue to launch Grace, a multimodal foundation model developed for image-to-image and text-to-image learning across all imaging modalities. Dubbed Grace, the B2B foundation model enables image-to-image and text-to-image learning across all medical imaging modalities.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

The dose catalog is based on all diagnostic fluoroscopy exams and interventional radiology (IR) procedures performed over nine years at Boston Children’s and is hoped to ensure consistency of practice and ensure patient safety, noted lead author Andy LaBella, MD, a medical physicist, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 9, 2024

Researchers led by Marc Lobbes, MD, PhD, from Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that CEM achieved a diagnostic accuracy comparable to that of conventional breast imaging. Finally, CEM detected 13 malignant occult lesions versus three from conventional imaging, and no serious adverse events occurred.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 23, 2024

Through the production and use of medical imaging equipment and supplies, radiology is estimated to generate up to 1% of overall greenhouse gas emissions, the researchers highlighted. The researchers also suggested that decision-support tools can be implemented to choose lower-energy imaging tests when appropriate.

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Diagnostic Imaging

AUGUST 18, 2023

Joseph Cavallo, MD, MBA, and Dushyant Sahani, MD, provide a brief overview of imaging modalities and their importance in medical diagnosis and treatment.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A team led by PhD candidate Lu Zhang of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, developed a large language model (LLM) that generates interpretations (“impressions”) on reports based on imaging findings and evaluated its performance in professional and linguistic dimensions. GB of data, including 800 radiology reports.

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Purview

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For many doctors, specialists, hospitals, health care practices and medical facilities, the cloud holds a lot of promise for storing and accessing medical imaging studies by physicians and patients alike.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In a large group of patients who underwent imaging between 2021 and 2023, F-18 FES-PET/CT supported clinical decisions in three quarters of cases and resulted in a management change in one third, noted lead author Jeongryul Ryu, MD, of the Asan Medical Center in Seoul, Korea, and colleagues. “F-18

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

Read on for our views on how standardized, adaptable infrastructure for medical imaging AI will ultimately improve the efficiency and precision of radiological assessments. AI can be leveraged to make incremental improvements at every stage of the medical imaging pipeline, beyond the tasks well-suited for a large language model.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2024

Physicians, health care providers, and medical staff caring for patients who use cannabis should be familiar with the effects of the drug on gut motility and thus nuclear medicine imaging, a recent report advises.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Gutberlet described how he came to cardiac imaging early in his medical career. Imaging was so important [for cardiac indications], that I decided to become a radiologist," he said. years of follow-up compared with CT imaging (2.1% Matthias Gutberlet, PhD, of the University of Leipzig in Germany, told session attendees.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Music can be calming for patients undergoing medical imaging, an article published February 7 in Radiography suggests. This includes imaging procedures such as MRI, mammography, and PET among others. Two studies used Johann Pachelbel's "Canon in D major” as their musical theme.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

AI yields much promise in medical imaging, but radiology leaders should be cognizant of the technology’s environmental impact, according to a paper published February 27 in Radiology. With this in mind, medical imaging should manage greenhouse gas emissions while addressing health effects related to climate change.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 16, 2024

Researchers at Capital Medical University in Beijing, China, found that the novel method revealed abnormal cellular activity five days after heart attack and detected so-called left ventricular (LV) remodeling after one year.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Methods for training artificial intelligence (AI) diagnostic algorithms can help prevent these models from producing medical errors caused by adversarial attacks, according to research presented at RSNA 2023 in Chicago. The University of Pittsburgh medical AI security study was limited in that it included data from one institution.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 8, 2024

Because conventional imaging methods offer limited assistance in the early stages of ILD, the findings underscore the potential utility of FAPI PET/CT as an imaging modality for diagnoses, according to a statement from SNMMI.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 19, 2024

A team led by Junqi Han, MD, from the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University in China found that its model combining data from mammography images, ultrasound images, and other characteristics performed well in predicting disease-free survival of breast cancer.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 9, 2024

Ultrasound is the typical go-to imaging modality for women experiencing chronic pelvic pain or infertility issues. Patients at elevated risk, meanwhile, could benefit from proceeding directly to advanced endometriosis imaging. Endometriosis also affects between 20% and 50% of patients with infertility and subfertility.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 28, 2024

A team at the University of California, Davis found that ChatGPT answered more than half of 30 patient questions about cardiac imaging correctly and consistently, yet at least one-fourth of the chatbot’s responses were either incorrect or clinically misleading. The group posed 30 questions to ChatGPT-3.5

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One likely cause of the increase – with 60% of survey respondents rating the likelihood at 4 or 5 out of 5 -- is due to some procedures shifting from other imaging modalities to CT, according to the report. Want to share your knowledge of medical imaging? Hospital 9.8% Nonhospital 6.4% Davin Korstjens. hospitals.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Geoffrey Rubin, MD, of the University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, offered session attendees an overview of key issues in the radiology workforce landscape, highlighting a 2024 consensus committee report from the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) on the future of medical imaging and radiation therapy.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Streamlining workflows Evidence suggests that radiologists can use ChatGPT to ask questions about medical imaging, radiology procedures, and patient information, and receive accurate and relevant answers in real-time, the authors wrote.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 11, 2024

These include segmentation, classification, and regression in medical imaging. These included dataset characteristics, modality types, data sizes, and research objectives. The researchers prompted GPT-4o 30 times with different tasks, imaging modalities, targets, and dataset sizes.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

“Data could potentially be used to establish performance benchmarks and better comprehend the developmental trajectories of residents, although variability among subspecialties and imaging modalities suggests that one size does not fit all,” the authors wrote. by third-year residents, 15.9%

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

7, indicating that larger hospitals and facilities in more urban locations are most likely to prioritize the use of predictive maintenance service features on their diagnostic imaging equipment. Disclosure: IMV Medical Information Division is a sister company of AuntMinnie.com. 7, while rural sites have the lowest at 4.3/7,

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 17, 2024

noted Rupa Sanghani, MD, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and colleagues. Cardiac PET MPI has emerged as a key tool for diagnosing and managing patients with cardiovascular diseases, especially coronary artery disease, yet overall it remains underutilized in the U.S., the authors noted.

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Associates in Medical Imaging

APRIL 23, 2021

Today, PET/CT is the fastest growing diagnostic imaging modality, and for good reason. PET/CT scans combine two different types of imaging capabilities in a single procedure using one machine. Unlike other imaging modalities such as MRI and CT, PET/CT scans show metabolic changes at the cellular level in an organ or tissue.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Previous research suggests that POCUS can help with access to healthcare by being used in geographic areas that don’t have easy access to medical facilities. Its use among non-physicians has also been explored. In Nepal, where about 75% of the nation is classified as rural, adequate pregnancy screening can be hard to come by.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

Uncovering MACE risks With many factors underlying MACE, radiologists and data scientists have been mining various regions of interest on cardiac CT images to bring potentially useful predictive and prognostic tools to the forefront. insurance claims data to study the clinical adoption of medical AI devices in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 18, 2024

The new strategy will integrate machine-aided interpretation and organ-specific acquisition intelligence to improve physiological quantification from imaging modalities and enable the implementation of digital biomarkers, the company said.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 14, 2024

"Radiologists are uniquely positioned to educate other healthcare providers on how to properly remove personal health information from radiologic imaging files," wrote Stern and colleague William Weadock, MD, also of the university. PowerPoint presentations that include medical images are a valuable educational tool, Stern and Weadock noted.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The need for imaging modalities to support an earlier, more accurate diagnosis continues to drive AI applications in the medical imaging market. In fact, the size of the market for AI in medical imaging is experiencing phenomenal growth, expected to increase from $1.12 billion in 2022 to $27.52

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 19, 2024

"Other methods of increasing the impact of our interventions, such as integrating the workflow into our hospital electronic medical records and educating patients, are possible future strategies.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The sale of Milwaukee, WI-based Alpha Source Group to refurbished equipment supplier Probo Medical has been completed, Brown Gibbons Lang and Company (BGL) announced. Prior to the sale, Alpha Source had three subsidiaries Alpha Source Biomed Solutions, BC Technical Imaging Solutions, and Medical Optics Surgical Solutions.

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