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OCTOBER 25, 2024

A commercially available AI model was on par with radiologists when detecting abnormalities on chest x-rays, and eliminated a gap in accuracy between radiologists and nonradiologist physicians, according to a study published October 24 in Scientific Reports. A) Chest x-ray unaided by the AI system. (B)

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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? The post Whos Reading My Chest X-ray? By Ann London BS. Do you have an opinion?

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Plain hip x-rays may help screen patients for osteoporosis before they undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA), according to a study published November 14 in Scientific Reports. However, several studies have suggested that indices on plain hip x-rays may be reliable screening tools in female or Asian ethnicities.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

AI based lesion-detection software used in daily practice can help identify clinically significant incidental lung nodules on chest x-rays, according to a study published November 13 in Scientific Reports. needed clinical management,” wrote lead author Shin Hye Hwang, MD, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This year’s trip along the Road to RSNA for digital x-ray features mileposts mostly set by AI research. Models will be proposed for applications ranging from predicting bone density on chest x-rays to generating complete reports on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears. Nonetheless, AI is poised to take top headlines.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Food and Drug Administration clearance for its chest x-ray algorithm CXR Analyzer. CXR Analyzer is a deep learning algorithm designed to automatically detect and categorize a broad range of suspicious lung, pleural, and cardiac pathologies on x-rays and can aid clinicians in making precise interpretations, according to the company.

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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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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AI assistance can improve the detection accuracy of thoracic abnormalities on chest x-rays across radiologists with varying levels of expertise, according to a study published December 12 in Radiology. About 50% of the x-rays had abnormal findings. AI detected a lung mass, a lung nodule, and a small pneumothorax.

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ScienceDaily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

X-rays are a common component of diagnostic testing and industrial monitoring, used for everything from monitoring your teeth to scanning your suitcase at the airport. But the high-energy rays also produce ionizing radiation, which can be dangerous after prolonged or excessive exposures.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 23, 2024

Researchers in Australia have invented a technique using x-rays and 3D surface body scans that could optimize body armor for soldiers, according to a study published May 18 in Applied Ergonomics.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 20, 2025

A team in Italy has developed a real-time machine-learning (ML) system that can predict x-ray service times in emergency departments. X-rays are the most frequently conducted medical exams in emergency departments (EDs) and use a remarkable proportion of the ED budget, the authors noted.

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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. But is that really the case?

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2024

Mercedes-Benz said it has performed the world's first crash test with a real car using x-ray imaging technology. The linear accelerator generates a continuous stream of x-ray pulses up to 1,000 images per second, which is about 1,000 times as many as with conventional medical x-ray procedures, the company noted.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2024

German developers of dark-field chest x-ray appear to have overcome a technical limitation of the technology – namely, adjusting for photon scattering caused by interferometers used in the experimental system. To overcome this limitation, the researchers developed a deconvolution-based correction method for the induced artifacts.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 1, 2024

An AI model has delivered a long overdue update of pediatric bone growth predictions used in x-ray imaging to monitor scoliosis, according to a study published April 30 in Radiology. Full-body biplanar slot scanning is a type of low-dose digital x-ray imaging used to monitor scoliosis. Image courtesy of Radiology.

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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

MAY 27, 2024

The largest private hospital system in Malaysia, Sunway Medical Centre, Sunway City (SMC), will integrate Annalise.ai’s Enterprise CXR chest x-ray technology into its medical imaging workflow. The software can detect up to 124 findings on chest x-rays within seconds, which can improve diagnostic speed and accuracy, SMC said.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Nearly 72,000 chest x-rays had been randomized as of November 25 (the study is open through December 31), with the two primary outcomes of the trial being time to diagnosis of lung cancer and time from chest x-ray to CT by prioritizing abnormals. UCLH has produced 9,217 chest x-rays from 8,072 patients.

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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 tumor localization/visualization results obtained by the proposed AI algorithm.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Researchers in Germany created an AI model that outperforms others in diagnostic accuracy when given access to clinical data that goes beyond an X-ray image.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 21, 2024

ChatGPT-4 is reasonably accurate in identifying radiological terms on chest x-ray reports, according to research presented at the Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CMIMI). Alsheikh and colleagues evaluated ChatGPT-4’s accuracy in identifying common radiological terms from chest x-ray reports.

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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

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 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. Out of the 20,944 chest x-rays, 28.6% The images were acquired in the hospital’s emergency department.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

CHICAGO -- A commercially available AI algorithm that can prioritize x-ray exams when it detects fractures yields “tremendous reductions” in report turnaround times, according to a study presented November 28 at RSNA. The software was configured to push email notifications three times a day, at 8 a.m., noon, and 3 p.m.,

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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

In an RSNA 2023 video interview, Saurabh Jha, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia discusses sessions on rural radiology issues and a recent initiative to bring x-ray exams to Mt. He also announces a new podcast partnership with AuntMinnie.com.

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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. Rudolph highlighted results for pneumothorax detection, in particular, where the AI assist performed similarly to the radiology resident readers. Nonradiology residents 0.78

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AuntMinnie

MAY 22, 2024

Intelligent virtual and AI-based collimation features appear to save radiographers time during x-ray image acquisitions – a key function for enabling more patient-focused workflows, according to a recent study. The study was published online May 18 in Radiography.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 5, 2024

Dell Technologies and Northwestern Medicine are collaborating on a generative multimodal large language model (LLM) for the interpretation of chest x-rays.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 5, 2024

Shimadzu Medical Systems USA has acquired one of its distributors, Vacaville-based California X-ray Imaging Services (CIS). Since 1992, CIS's focus has been throughout northern California and northern Nevada.

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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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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Musculoskeletal X-rays ordered during telemedicine appointments had a higher likelihood of showing "normal" results than those ordered during in-person visits, suggesting those exams may have not been necessary in the first place.

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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

APRIL 9, 2025

How far the crew of the recent Fram2 space mission got through the 30-page x-ray protocol they had on board is currently a mystery. If we can put x-ray machines in space, there's really no logical reason we can't provide access, good diagnostic care, to all the people on the planet that need it, he said.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 6, 2023

One benefit of these new detectors is that they can operate efficiently across multiple energy levels.

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