Topics | Health Imaging

Advanced Visualization

Perfusion MRI shows CPAP healing the brains of apnea patients

Diattenuation imaging allows scientists to differentiate between brain tissues, types

MRI study finds men, ‘blushing individuals’ more sensitive to alcohol

Physicians, medical students like learning radiology via online ‘Second Life’

Whole-body PET/CT ferrets out metastases traveling from sinonasal cancers

Artificial Intelligence

Eye doctors using AI beat unassisted docs, AI alone at diagnosing diabetic vision loss

Deep learning plus radiologist oversight boosts efficiency of liver lesion segmentation

Imaging patients are concerned—but optimistic—about AI

A majority of AI studies don’t adequately validate methods

AI challenges radiologists at detecting breast cancer

Breast Imaging

Black women wait longer for breast surgery than white women, study finds

Cardiovascular Imaging

Cardiac MRI-derived T2 mapping may help heart failure patients

Cardiac MRI-derived T2 mapping may help heart failure patients

What’s the best MR angiography strategy to screen for aneurysm in patients with hereditary kidney disease?

Cardiac MRI, stress test improves mortality prediction

New noninvasive imaging modality can better assess CVD risk

Care Delivery

Q&A: Why the public should not worry about radiation contamination when bodies are cremated

Diagnostic Imaging

CT overused in patients with dental infections

DCE-MRI helps diagnose, assess severity of acute pancreatitis

Emergency callbacks due to imaging discrepancies ring up $2K-plus per pediatric patient

Abdominal MRI patients move less when holding breath at end of exhale

Kinematic 4D-CT may help diagnose subtalar joint pain

Healthcare Economics & Policy

Change Healthcare files for $100M IPO

EHRs found severely underperforming—or worse

Emergency callbacks due to imaging discrepancies ring up $2K-plus per pediatric patient

Radiologist reads of pediatric arm fractures found superfluous, costly

Legislation to repeal medical device tax introduced in the Senate

Imaging Informatics

Google, Amazon smart speakers assist interventional radiologists

Digital Pathology Pilot Predicts Prosperity: Pondering Pathology’s Pivot

Can natural language processing predict downstream radiology utilization?

Imaging contrast allergies are poorly documented in EHRs

CDS, education improves guideline adherence for CT-detected incidental ovarian lesions

Leadership

NCI director Norman Sharpless named new FDA acting commissioner

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb resigns

Molecular Imaging

New radiotracers may gain ground in FDG territory

Experts want Ontario to change law forbidding cremation of bodies treated with radioactive therapy

FDG PET/CT effectively monitors immunotherapy for melanoma patients

Brexit ‘likely’ to delay delivery of drugs used to detect, treat cancer

4D CT accurate for preoperative parathyroid imaging

Neuroimaging

UK researchers publish large Alzheimer’s dataset

UK researchers publish large Alzheimer’s dataset

How helpful is MRI for diagnosing a concussion?

fMRI reveals a lack of sleep increases sensitivity to pain

Oncology Imaging

Whole-body PET/CT ferrets out metastases traveling from sinonasal cancers

Scientists use optical imaging to find deep cancers in their earliest stages

Young colorectal cancer patients commonly diagnosed at advanced stages, survey finds

DBT detects smaller cancers with better long-term prognoses

Study: Medicaid expansion boosted colon cancer screening, survival in Kentucky

Practice Management

Kids take home 3D models of their brain after helping in MRI study

CDS, education improves guideline adherence for CT-detected incidental ovarian lesions

New wireless sensors monitor sick, premature babies without disrupting imaging exams

New flexible pediatric MRI coil preferred by patients, clinicians

NHS Scotland waiting times for imaging exams, treatment hit record highs

Women's Imaging

Dense breast notification laws boost cancer detection rates, ultrasound use

fMRI shows male, female brains going separate ways in the womb

DBT reduces number of unnecessary biopsies while maintaining cancer detection rate

AI challenges radiologists at detecting breast cancer

DBT detects smaller cancers with better long-term prognoses

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