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Is human-AI ‘symbiosis’ the path forward in chest radiography?

Human-AI symbiosis – rather than totally autonomous AI – should be the current goal for AI in chest radiography.

January 24, 2024

Researchers offer age-specific dose estimator for fluoroscopy exams

A team at Boston Children’s Hospital has developed an age-specific dose catalog for estimating radiation exposure to children from diagnostic and interventional radiology fluoroscopy procedures.

January 18, 2024

How much do canceled appointments actually cost radiology?

By Brian Bradfield

Canceled appointments are an inevitable part of a radiology department's — and a hospital's — operations. Brian Bradfield of Cassling offers some potential solutions in a new column.

January 18, 2024

Money Hundred Bills

AI may help plan new treatment in scoliosis patients

An AI model for x-ray imaging could help clinicians plan treatment other than spinal fusions in adolescent patients with idiopathic scoliosis.

January 17, 2024

Features extracted from lateral radiographs. (a) thoracic kyphosis and lumbar lordosis (b) proximal thoracic kyphosis (c) mid-lower thoracic kyphosis (d) thoracolumbar lordosis angle measured between the superior endplate and the inferior endplate of the vertebral levels: T2-T12, L1-L5, T2-T5, T5-T12, and T12-L2. Image courtesy of PLOS One.

High body fat raises fracture risk in women treated for breast cancer

Women with high body fat undergoing early breast cancer treatment may be at higher risk for vertebral fractures, despite the use of bone health drugs.

January 12, 2024

Radiologists in Europe ramp up testing of AI

Four out of seven commercially available AI algorithms for detecting lung nodules on x-rays performed better than human readers in a recent study.

January 11, 2024

Example chest x-rays from a public test set illustrate algorithm and reader similarities to and discrepancies from the reference standard. A specialized radiologist determined the reference standard score (0, no nodule present; 100, one or more nodules present), and algorithms and human readers provided a probability score between 0 and 100 for each patient of the likelihood that the patient was a nodule case. (A) Radiograph in a man (age, 72 years) with a nodule present (reference standard score, 100) shows a true-positive result based on the average algorithm scores. (B) Radiograph in a man (age, 68 years) without a nodule present (reference standard score, 0) shows a true-negative result based on the average algorithm scores. (C) Radiograph in a woman (age, 64 years) without a nodule present (reference standard score, 0) shows a false-positive result based on the average algorithm scores. (D) Radiograph in a man (age, 37 years) with a nodule present (reference standard score, 100) shows a false-negative result based on the average algorithm scores. Corresponding lateral images and CT scans (when available) for these patients are presented in Figure S2 (supplementary data). The images shown in this figure were part of a public subset and not part of the set on which metrics are reported, which remains confidential for reevaluation in the future. Algorithm scores provided for the images are raw, uncalibrated scores and cannot be directly compared to each other; they are provided for indicative purposes only. Image and caption courtesy of Radiology.

Bone health a concern among lung transplant patients

Implementing a clinical bone health protocol may reduce fractures in lung transplant recipients.

January 3, 2024

Researchers invent elastic x-ray shield

A group in Japan has developed and tested an elastic x-ray shield made by embedding bismite particles in porous polyurethane.

December 27, 2023

MinXray delivers portable x-ray systems to Ukraine

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MinXray has completed the delivery of 70 CMDR portable digital x-ray systems to Ukraine to help provide access to radiography services amid the ongoing conflict.

December 20, 2023

New procedure shows promise reducing knee osteoarthritis pain

Genicular artery embolization can improve pain and knee function for at least three months in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

December 20, 2023

Angiograms of the right knee in a 76-year-old man with knee osteoarthritis. A) Before embolization, selective angiography of the common trunk of the superior lateral and superior medial genicular arteries shows hypervascular inflammatory blush (arrows). B) During embolization using ethiodized oil of the common trunk, the angiogram shows emulsion droplets (arrows). Image courtesy of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging.

Discover radiology's roots at the German Roentgen Museum

By Dr. Adrian Thomas

Make sure you add the world-famous Roentgen Museum to your bucket list, urges history buff Dr. Adrian Thomas. He describes his visit to Remscheid-Lennep, Germany.

December 18, 2023

The Röntgen Museum has been extended and modernized over recent years.

Bone scans support high-velocity resistance training in older adults

Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry scans show that high-velocity resistance training increases bone mineral density in older adults.

December 15, 2023

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