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Ultrasound MinnieCast, Episode 3: Focused ultrasound brings hope to patients
By Amerigo Allegretto
Pejman Ghanouni, MD, PhD, discusses the promise that focused ultrasound yields for treating patients.
March 6, 2026
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ECR: LLMs help patients understand breast imaging reports
By Amerigo Allegretto
Hemal Grover, MD, shared results from two studies of how LLMs can improve report readability for patients.
March 6, 2026
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DL segmentation of chest muscle volume shows promise for COPD patients
By Kate Madden Yee
Deep learning (DL)-based muscle volume assessment from routine CT scans could help identify COPD patients with comorbid sarcopenia.
March 5, 2026
Images show the pectoralis muscles of a healthy male individual who never smoked (age, 66 years; height, 178 cm; body mass index [BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared], 28.4; number of cigarette pack-years, 0; forced expiratory volume in 1 second [FEV1], 97.6% predicted; FEV1: forced vital capacity [FVC] ratio, 0.71; pectoralis muscle area [PMA], 59.4 cm2; pectoralis muscle volume [PMV], 764 cm3) and a male individual with a smoking history and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) (age, 66 years; height, 178 cm; BMI, 27.5; number of cigarette pack-years, 43.2, FEV1, 48% predicted; FEV1:FVC, 0.56; PMA, 35 cm2; PMV, 480.8 cm3) from the Canadian Cohort Obstructive Lung Disease (i.e., CanCOLD) study. The CT image is shown in the axial plane. The PMV is automatically extracted using the developed deep learning model and overlayed onto the lungs for visual clarity.
ECR: 'Black swan events' demand informed imaging infrastructure
By Liz Carey
Experts discuss how to plan for "black swan events" -- that is, battlefield and mass casualty incidents.
March 5, 2026
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AI model shows promise for reading CT scans like a radiologist would
By Kate Madden Yee
The model works in three dimensions, analyzing full CT volumes.
March 4, 2026
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ECR: Lessons from ACR's improvement initiative on prostate MRI quality
By Kate Madden Yee
Prostate MRI is an essential tool for prostate cancer workup and management, but its image quality can be highly variable.
March 4, 2026
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CEUS with perfluorobutane diagnoses small-cell HCC
By Amerigo Allegretto
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) with perfluorobutane performs well in diagnosing small-cell liver hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
March 3, 2026
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Ablation as effective as surgery for treating small kidney cancers
By Kate Madden Yee
In patients with stage T1a kidney cancer, ablation shows comparable progression risk but fewer complications.
March 3, 2026
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Lancet Oncology: Global breast cancer cases could surge to 3.5M by 2050
By Kate Madden Yee
The study also found that yearly deaths could increase by 44%, climbing from 764,000 in 2023 to nearly 1.4 million in 2050.
March 2, 2026
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Survey: Most ultrasound users may not have access to cleaning guides
By Amerigo Allegretto
A survey found that many ultrasound users do not have disinfection guidelines or have proper training on transducer cleaning.
March 2, 2026
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Media reporting overlooks parts of breast cancer screening guidelines
By Amerigo Allegretto
News media did not often address some parts of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's updated breast cancer screening guidelines.
March 2, 2026
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Physicians superior to LLMs in interpreting PET imaging
By Will Morton
Four physicians identified tumor locations on F-18 FDG-PET scans with far higher accuracy than six large language models (LLMs).
February 27, 2026
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