AuntMinnie

APRIL 18, 2025

The challenge is that screening for sarcopenia, which typically starts with a patient questionnaire or gait speed assessment prior to imaging, is not routine as is [for example, dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry] screening for osteoporosis.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Swiss research team has developed and tested an AI model that automatically segments anatomic structures on MR images independent of sequence, according to a study published February 18 in Radiology. Images and caption courtesy of the RSNA. The team then assessed the model's performance using Dice scoring.

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Professional Radiology

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The way physicians identify illness is changing due to advances in medical imaging, which make early diagnosis quicker, more precise, and less invasive. As one of El Pasos top radiology centers, Professional Radiology is dedicated to offering cutting-edge imaging services that aid in the early detection of illnesses.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 7, 2025

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued draft guidance providing recommendations to drug companies on the design of clinical trials for optical imaging drugs used with imaging devices during medical procedures. The FDA is taking comments on the guidance through April 8, 2025.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 28, 2025

Excess imaging translates to "significant"carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to a study published March 28 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Overuse of imaging is a strain on our healthcare system and radiology workforce," said senior author Michael Atalay, MD, PhD, of Brown University in Providence, RI.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While academic medical center radiology departments are expanding significantly and hospitals are adapting to health system consolidation trends, demand for innovative imaging informatics remains strong among operations and physician teams. billion healthcare facility. Another, a new hospital complex is underway at University of Utah Health.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2025

Using a deep-learning model with lung CT imaging shows promise for identifying and segmenting tumors, researchers have reported. To address the problem, Kashyap and colleagues developed and tested a 3D U-Net-based, image-multiresolution ensemble deep-learning model for identifying and segmenting lung tumors on CT scans.

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Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Finding the right enterprise imaging (EI) system is critical for radiology practices and hospitals that need to expand and scale their multi-specialty image management and reading capacity.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Implementing a clinical decision support system (CDSS) had little effect on reducing inappropriate imaging orders by doctors in university hospitals, according to a study published February 10 in JAMA. The primary outcome measure was the proportion of inappropriate imaging requests made per department before and after implementation.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 17, 2025

An imaging practice in the Pacific Northwest has verified that a patient personal data breach occurred in January, according to a report posted April 17 by Cascadia Daily News. Baker Imaging (MBI) confirmed that the leak potentially includes names, addresses, social security numbers, treatment information and health insurance information.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

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.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 15, 2025

CT images are better than electronic health record (EHR) and CT report data when it comes to diagnosing sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity, researchers have reported. They also emphasized that, on CT imaging, 5.7% Images and caption courtesy of the RSNA. Obesity 17.4% What do the findings suggest?

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The use of AI in thoracic imaging has begun to demonstrate "cumulative evidence of effectiveness," but more testing and research are needed to determine its feasibility for this application, according to a commentary published February 25 in Radiology. van Beek, MD, of the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. in an accompanying editorial.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 16, 2025

About half of medical imaging equipment service calls are not fully resolved on the first visit, according to a new report. Analysis of anonymized data by agentic AI software developer Aquant tracked 14 medical imaging service organizations and 6,500 technicians running almost 2 million service events on nearly 300,000 assets.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 11, 2025

Medical imaging is the economic artery of modern diagnostics, with AI-driven advancements prompting clinicians to rethink how they interpret scans. For instance, the global medical imaging AI market 1 is projected to expand eightfold by 2030, reaching an estimated $8.18 Ravinder Singh. Vaibhavi Sonetha, PhD.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 15, 2025

By applying [deep learning] to MR imaging, our study opens new avenues for enhancing diagnostic accuracy and efficiency in detecting endometriosis," the authors noted. When the radiologist readers used AI to identify endometriosis on MR imaging, their sensitivity improved slightly, from 84.5% Of the total study cohort, 12.5%

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ScienceDaily

JANUARY 2, 2025

Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve the analysis of medical image data. This is the result of AutoPET, an international competition in medical image analysis. For example, algorithms based on deep learning can determine the location and size of tumors.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 3, 2025

Radiologist Jelle Barentsz, MD, PhD, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, emphasized that poor-quality MRI images are leading to prostate cancer overdiagnosis. We need to have a quality measurement of the imaging," he explained. "We We developed PI-QUAL which is, I think, the first MRI standard looking at image quality.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2024

There's plenty of research and technologies on display at RSNA 2024 when it comes to breast imaging. She also talked about what breast imaging facilities can expect with the U.S. She also talked about what breast imaging facilities can expect with the U.S. Just ask Amy Patel, MD, from Liberty Hospital in Missouri.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

Protect Her uses AI to analyze routine imaging studies that women are already undergoing, such as mammograms, chest CT exams, and x-rays, flagging signs and patterns that may be missed, according to the firm.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 20, 2025

Recent projections could create an environment of unprecedented demand for nuclear imaging.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 14, 2025

Imaging AI software developer HOPPR has added Woojin Kim, MD, and William Boonn, MD, to its executive lineup. A musculoskeletal radiologist, imaging informaticist, and entrepreneur, Kim comes to HOPPR after serving most recently as chief medical information officer (CMIO) at Rad AI.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 9, 2025

Health-related social needs (HRSNs) can lead to missed imaging appointments among cancer patients, according to a study published April 7 in the Journal of the American College of Roentgenology. But the link between HRSNs and missed imaging appointments among cancer patients has not been well understood. reported HRSNs; of these, 82.9%

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 26, 2025

Komen applauded the passage of breast imaging legislation in Virginia that the organization said eliminates barriers to essential care. SB 1436 will allow people with state-regulated health plans to receive diagnostic and supplemental imaging without high patient cost sharing, Komen said.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 28, 2025

Features used for radiomics models can provide systematic analysis of images by overcoming the limitations of subjective analysis and dependence on the experience of radiologists interpreting MR images. From there, the researchers extracted 1,618 radiomic features and four kinetic features from ultrafast and standard MR images.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 18, 2025

More women are willing to have AI assistance for their breast cancer screening exams, suggest findings published April 18 in Radiology: Imaging Cancer. They also suggest that women with a higher degree of education are more willing to accept AI into their imaging exams.

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Health Imaging

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The software has been primarily disguised as Philips DICOM MediaViewerLauncher.exea trusted program that enables patients to view their medical imaging on their own personal servers.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Are low-field MRI units effective for neuroradiologic imaging? It's true that overall image quality of routine clinical brain and spinal MR imaging at 0.55-tesla Also, using low-field MRI may make imaging of structures near bone -- such as the internal auditory canal -- more feasible, they wrote. tesla imaging.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 18, 2025

Terumo Health Outcomes is collaborating with medical imaging software developer Medis Medical Imaging to offer hospitals in the U.S. image analysis software software for cath labs. access to Medis QFR 3.0

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 15, 2025

Those proposing breast imaging-related measures so far in 2025 have included Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Missouri, New York, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia, ACR reports.

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Radiology Business

MARCH 31, 2025

Between 2017 and 2021, all inappropriate imaging generated upward of 129.2 kilotons per year, with CT and MRI accounting for the largest portion.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 1, 2025

The study highlights how radiomics can help stratify risk in DCIS cases compared with clinical and qualitative imaging information alone, noted lead authors Kalina Slavkova, PhD, of Columbia University in New York City, and Ruya Kang, PhD, of Brown University in Providence, RI. Image courtesy of RSNA. A graphical abstract of the study.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 16, 2024

F-18 fluorothymidine (FLT) PET can identify early acute gastrointestinal graft versus host disease (GVHD) after patients undergo bone marrow transplants, according to a study published December 13 in Radiology: Imaging Cancer. F-18 FLT-PET imaging was performed on day 28. F-18 FLT-PET imaging of gastrointestinal GVHD.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Behind him is an image created by one such generative AI model, which illustrates humans working alongside AI. In radiology, the technologys performance has been assessed in response generation to patients, taking board exams, and image interpretation assistance. Kohli used generative AI to create some of his presentation slides.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 6, 2025

Radiology administrators express very high confidence that imaging will grow as a profit center in coming months, according to The MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) report for the second quarter of 2025. This is a national crisis that will only get worse."

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Radiology Business

MARCH 3, 2025

Rosman, MD, MBA, deputy chief, radiology enterprise service, Mass General Brigham, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

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ScienceDaily

MARCH 28, 2025

PET imaging shows that the brain increases dopamine production when completing cognitively demanding tasks, and that the more dopamine released, the more efficiently the tasks are completed. Scientists have confirmed a neurobiochemical link between dopamine and cognitive flexibility.

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