Thoracic Radiology Updates

Oct 19, 2020

Thoracic Radiology Updates

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Radiology researchers weigh in on the impact of the political climate

April 27, 2026

Children ‘almost invisible’ in public imaging datasets

April 27, 2026

Turning Innovation into Everyday Efficiency

Turning Innovation into Everyday Efficiency

April 22, 2026

AI improves mammography specificity, speed in Asia-Pacific reader study

April 27, 2026

Radiology researchers weigh in on the impact of the political climate

Group begins research into how political environments may intersect with research practice.

April 27, 2026

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Children ‘almost invisible’ in public imaging datasets

Among 135 datasets with usable age data, children accounted for just 6,026 of 512,608 patients (under 2%).

April 27, 2026

AI model predicts cardiovascular risk from BACs on mammograms

By Amerigo Allegretto

An AI model showed success in using age-adjusted breast arterial calcifications from mammograms to predict cardiovascular events.

April 27, 2026

Example of Percentile Nomogram With Age-Adjusted BAC Quartiles. (A) Mammogram of a 56-year-old woman. There is evident BAC (pink arrow). This was quantified as a BAC score of 30 using the cmAngio tool. (B) Nomogram indicating that a BAC score of 30 places a 56-year-old woman within the 50th to 75th percentile for her age. Images are republished under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).

AI improves mammography specificity, speed in Asia-Pacific reader study

By Kate Madden Yee

Use of an AI-CAD algorithm cut average interpretation time by more than 30%.

April 27, 2026

ChatGPT matches nuclear medicine experts on FDG-PET/CT scans

Models excelled on cases with well-defined metabolic patterns, such as in typical cases of Alzheimer's disease, yet were less accurate on complex cases.

April 24, 2026

HRCT bests chest x-ray when it comes to identifying ILD

By Kate Madden Yee

Why? Because although chest x-ray is often the initial imaging exam for evaluating ILD, subtle findings can be missed.

April 24, 2026

CMS, FDA align with new breakthrough medical device coverage pathway

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

CMS will pause Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies (TCET).

April 24, 2026

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Women's Imaging MinnieCast, Episode 7: What to know about the ACP's breast cancer screening guidance

By Amerigo Allegretto

Carolyn Crandall, MD, talks new guidance by the ACP for breast cancer screening, which has drawn criticism from imaging societies.

April 24, 2026

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Musculoskeletal strain affects majority of radiologists

Musculoskeletal strain represents the single largest category of workplace injury in radiology.

April 23, 2026

New x-ray dataset helps clinicians develop pathology detection AI

By Kate Madden Yee

ICUs rely heavily on bedside chest x-ray to monitor patients, and the dataset could offer support for radiologic assessment.

April 23, 2026

Example radiographs with different labels for 'pulmonary congestion,' 'pleural effusion,' 'pulmonary opacities,' and 'atelectasis.'

LI-RADS CT/MRI liver malignancy features show high interreader agreement

By Kate Madden Yee

The results could have implications for how LI-RADS CT/MRI (v2018) should be applied in clinical liver imaging practice.

April 23, 2026

GAE benefits may just be ‘placebo effect’

Patients who received either genicular artery embolization (GAE) or a sham procedure experienced equal pain improvements.

April 22, 2026

Contrast-enhanced T1 weSPGR images of the knee of a patient from the GAE group at the level of the suprapatellar recess. The baseline image (left) shows a marked synovial enhancement. There was no change one month after treatment (middle image) and four months after treatment (right image).

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