The American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 61st
annual scientific sessions, March 24-27 in Chicago, is shaping up to be a blockbuster event, according to ACC President David R. Holmes, Jr., MD. “This meeting will be tremendous,” he said in a press briefing. “We stand on the cusp of the science and education that will be highlighted in Chicago.”
Although most of the European women’s health imaging system market will decline over the next five years, overall revenues will increase slightly as a result of growth in the breast imaging system segment, due to the introduction and adoption of more expensive and innovative systems, according to Millennium Research Group.
Computer-aided detection (CAD) increased radiologist sensitivity for breast cancer 10 percent and produced a concomitant increase in the recall rate, according to an article published in the March issue of
American Journal of Roentgenology.
Radiology Limited will install Merge's suite of radiology systems at its nine imaging centers across southern Arizona.
Imaging—often the bedrock for first diagnosing and then treating cardiac disease —remains challenging and inconsistent in women.
iCAD and Hitachi Medical Systems have reached a distribution agreement covering iCad's breast MR image analysis software and Hitachi's MR systems.
DENVER—Myocardial perfusion SPECT should be limited to women with indeterminate or abnormal test results, Leslee J. Shaw, PhD, co-director of the clinical cardiovascular research institute at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, said during a presentation Sept. 11 at the 16th annual American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) scientific session. However, as Shaw reported the results of the WOMEN trial, she concluded that in the future, more of an emphasis should be placed on guiding and evaluating patients via the accepted best practice.
Use of a 128-slice dual source CT led to ultrafast imaging of the entire heart and reduced radiation exposure significantly when compared to a shutter-mode dynamic myocardial perfusion protocol with alternating table positions, according to a study published Aug. 23 in
Circulation: Heart Failure. Adenosine stress myocardial CT perfusion (CTP) imaging with the 128-slice technology can accurately detect both myocardial ischemia and coronary stenosis.
A pair of editorials in the September issue of
Radiology tackled the tough topic of breast cancer overdiagnosis by screening mammography. On one side, breast imagers argued that claims of overdiagnosis are inflated. On the other, a group of researchers suggested that screening mammography has a minor effect on mortality and breast imaging may cause more harm than benefit.
In addition to avoiding exposure to ionizing radiation, stress cardiac MR (CMR) myocardial perfusion imaging is an effective and robust risk-stratifying tool for patients of either sex presenting with possible ischemia, according to a study in the August issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.
Positive findings of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) via elective coronary angiography varies widely across centers, 23 percent to 100 percent, according to a study published Aug. 9 in the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology.This variation may pave the way for quality improvement and appropriate use criteria (AUC) for diagnostic coronary angiography.
University Hospital Zurich has installed the Ziostation supercomputing functional analytics system from Ziosoft.
Using computer-aided detection (CAD) software to help analyze and interpret mammograms does not improve accuracy, but it does raise a woman’s risk of being recalled for additional testing, according to a study published online July 27 in the
Journal of the National Cancer Institute. An accompanying editorial suggested the need for further improvements in CAD software and described existing technology as “more harmful than beneficial.”
An early trial of a CAD program improved all 12 participating radiologists’ detection of lung nodules on x-ray, while averaging 2.6 false-positives per image, offering potentially promising results for the temporal subtraction method for CAD, according to a study published in the August issue of Academic Radiology.
Health Imaging & IT’s Top Connected class of 2011 is an illustrious group. Several previous winners have re-appeared and demonstrated their continued commitment to imaging connectivity across the enterprise, reporting on ongoing gains in various metrics, such as turn-around time and operating costs.
Infinitt and Medicsight have signed a marketing partnership to offer the ColonCAD API package within its Xelis Colon application for improved detection of abnormalities within the large intestine.
Medicsight has entered into an agreement with Ziosoft that includes the integration of Medicsight’s ColonCAD software and Ziosoft’s Ziostation technology as well as distribution of both technologies by Ziosoft in the U.S.
Canon has entered into a partnership agreement with CT-centered patient monitoring tool developer Median Technologies.
Adapting a DICOM structured reporting template to content-based image retrieval (CBIR) could help integrate CBIR into PACS workflow and clinical practice, according to an article published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Vital, part of the Toshiba Medical Systems Group, has released Vitrea Enterprise Suite Version 6.1.
