Diagnostic screening programs help catch cancer, abnormalities or other diseases before they reach an advanced stage, saving lives and healthcare costs. Screening programs include, lung, breast, prostate, and cervical cancer, among many others.
CT calcium scoring provides valuable evaluations of intermediate-risk patients in addition to making good business sense for hospitals. Nauman Mushtaq, MD, an interventional cardiologist with Northwestern, shared his own experience with this technology.
Radiation dose is one of the top concerns in imaging today, and since younger patients are the most vulnerable, reducing dose in pediatric imaging is especially important.
Increasing numbers of children are turning up with pancreatitis and other abnormalities involving that glandular organ. Spurred by this observation, a multicenter literature-review team has written a paper offering an update on existing imaging techniques and interventional endoscopic modalities.
The May edition of JAMA Internal Medicine presented three studies showing that internists tend to over-test and over-treat their patients. A July 22 Forbes blog offers a response from an internist who is also a behavioral scientist (and a book author, to boot).
Functional MRI may help settle an open question among pediatric neurologists over “second impact syndrome” in child and teen football players.
New research published in the journal Scientific Reports shows a new way to detect the return of ovarian cancer earlier than previously possible.
Noting that endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common cancer of the female reproductive organs, an expert panel reports that it has developed and refined ACR appropriateness criteria on the management of patients with recurrent EC across its most common clinical variants.
Automated AI-generated measurements combined with annotated CT images can improve treatment planning and help referring physicians and patients better understand their disease, explained Sarah Jane Rinehart, MD, director of cardiac imaging with Charleston Area Medical Center.
Two advanced algorithms—one for CAC scores and another for segmenting cardiac chamber volumes—outperformed radiologists when assessing low-dose chest CT scans.
"Gen AI can help tackle repetitive tasks and provide insights into massive datasets, saving valuable time," Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said Tuesday.