Conferences

Conferences

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These individuals are typically sent for an initial CT scan, but follow-up protocol is not well established, experts said during RSNA.

SNMMI image of the year

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging selected the scan as the Henry N. Wanger Jr. Image of the Year during its annual meeting.

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The Oak Brook, Illinois-based societys board of directors has approved a decision to expand live imaging beyond just ultrasound.

Noted imaging guru Christopher Roth, MD, MMCI, vice chair of Radiology for Clinical Informatics and IT at Duke University Medical Center, presented his roadmap during SIIM's Annual Meeting.

Conferences

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The organization said the health and safety of its attendees, exhibitors and staff is its "primary consideration" but did not give any indication if vaccination will be required.

Virtual Meeting

The 2021 ISMRM conference and exhibition was set to take place May 15-20 as a hybrid in-person and online gathering.

The artificial intelligence platform outperformed both body mass index and overall weight at forecasting such outcomes, researchers explained recently.

During a session at RSNA, researchers detailed how their 2D convolutional neural network outperformed even the best-trained algorithms.

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Since its inception, RSNA's in-person annual meeting has only been canceled twice, in 1943 and 1945, due to transportation and gasoline supply issues during and immediately following World War II.

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The annual conference will run May 16-19 and focus on governance, the college announced Wednesday.

The group said its decision is based on recommendations from state, federal and global health organizations. SIR 2020 was set to begin March 28 in Seattle.

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The conference is moving "full steam ahead as scheduled" for March 9-13 in Orlando, but the list of vendors pulling out—which now includes Amazon and Siemens Healthineers—continues to grow amid coronavirus fears.

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Two advanced algorithms—one for CAC scores and another for segmenting cardiac chamber volumes—outperformed radiologists when assessing low-dose chest CT scans. 

Advanced imaging equipment using ionizing radiation enters the global market at the rate of one new technology every five years.

Raquel Roman, chair of the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) Young Professionals Committee, and director of growth at Essential Radiology, explains how the group mentors the next generation leaders.