Brian Casey

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SCAR report: Doctors must be agents of change

VANCOUVER - The U.S. healthcare system faces serious challenges ahead, as costs are increasingly shifted to patients, many of whom lack the ability to pay. Information technology has the potential to solve the looming crisis, but only if physicians take the lead in pushing medicine to become more automated through the adoption of healthcare IT.

May 20, 2004

Advanced Visualization

Studies show CAD's potential beyond the breast

Computer-aided detection (CAD) isn't just for breast imaging anymore. Two studies we're highlighting this week point to increased CAD usage across a variety of modalities and applications, from conventional radiography to virtual colonoscopy.

May 18, 2004

Your SCAR show companion

If you're heading out to next week's annual meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology, don't leave home until you've had a chance to check out AuntMinnie.com's new SCAR Buyer's Guide.

May 13, 2004

Rads make hay in the heartland

It may lack the glamour of Hollywood or the Big Apple, but America's heartland is the place to be if you're a radiologist, according to results from the latest edition of AuntMinnie's CompHealth SalaryScan survey. Radiologists in three of the four central U.S. regions reported the highest average annual salaries in the country, according to SalaryScan data.

May 11, 2004

Practice Management

Heartland imaging pays for U.S. radiologists

Looking for the best-paying radiologist jobs in the U.S.? Forget about the coasts -- the fattest paychecks can be found in America's heartland.

May 10, 2004

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Tragedy strikes after RT sickout in San Francisco

It's no secret that radiologic technologists in the U.S. are under tremendous stress. Ask many RTs about their job situation, and they'll say they're overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated.

May 6, 2004

MRI pinpoints abdominal pain in pregnant women

In a report presented at this week's American Roentgen Ray Society meeting, U.S. researchers found that MRI can be useful for imaging cases of acute abdominal pain in pregnant women.

May 4, 2004

ACR holds hearings on expert-witness issue

Besides cardiologists who do their own imaging, perhaps no one irks radiologists more than imaging specialists who testify as expert witnesses in radiology malpractice cases. Seeing one of their own on the other side of the witness stand is a sure-fire way to get a radiologist's blood boiling.

April 29, 2004

Amazon expedition makes its way upriver

Our intrepid explorers in the Amazon rainforest have filed their first report from their mission to bring medical imaging technology to indigenous tribes. They're finding that while the Imagem do Javari Expedition has encountered its share of challenges, it has also generated rewards for both expedition members and the patients they're treating.

April 27, 2004

Tips for imaging pediatric patients

This week AuntMinnie.com is featuring a series of articles on pediatric imaging by Douglas Clark, R.T. (R) (CT). Mr. Clark shares with AuntMinnie readers the tips and tricks you won't find in the classroom or a textbook.

April 22, 2004

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U.S. FDA may need to clarify SaMD validation standards

In a video interview, a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute expert describes what the "rigor spectrum" is in validation study designs.

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PSMA-PET/CT may replace NaF-PET/CT in advanced prostate cancer

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Preop breast MRI improves surgical planning, but use disparities remain

Uterus Pelvic 400

FIGO classification from MRI leads to moderate agreement among rads

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IMV: Diagnostic imaging service expenditures shifting to third-party providers

In a new column, Davin Korstjens of IMV Medical Information Division describes recent trends in the imaging equipment service market.

October 20, 2023

Service Maintenance Repair

Students prefer MSK, body, breast imaging during clerkship

By Amerigo Allegretto

Medical students prefer musculoskeletal (MSK), body, and breast imaging early in their clinical education.

October 20, 2023

Medical Students 400

Researchers offer hypothesis for long COVID brain fog

A group in France has offered an explanation for long COVID brain fog, with the concept based on a visual brain pattern they discovered on patient PET scans.

October 19, 2023

Hypometabolism detected with F-18 FDG-PET in long-COVID patients: putative astrocyte dysfunction and glutamatergic dysregulation. (A) PET scan of a healthy subject. (B) PET scan of a long COVID patient. Hypometabolic areas are indicated with arrows. (C) A diagram showing a healthy condition in which an astrocyte has a normal capacity to take up glutamate and recycle it to sustain glutamatergic neurotransmission, giving rise to normal glucose utilization and lactate production to ensure adequate neuronal energy supply. (D) A diagram showing a long COVID condition in which an astrocyte has reduced glutamate uptake capacity, leading to reduced glutamate recycling, lower glucose utilization (observed with F-18 FDG-PET as hypometabolism) and lower lactate production, dysregulating glutamatergic neurotransmission, and possibly endangering neuronal survival.

Prior authorization adds to patient burden in cancer care

By Amerigo Allegretto

Prior authorization is required for over 70% of imaging services for cancer care.

October 19, 2023

Insurance Policy 400

How Medicaid unwinding could impact radiology practices

By Sandy Coffta

In a new column, Sandy Coffta of HAP describes how recent Medicare developments could significantly affect radiology practices.

October 19, 2023

Ultralow-dose chest CT bests x-ray in the emergency department

By Kate Madden Yee

In nontraumatic emergency department patients, ultralow-dose chest CT offers more than twice the detection rate for main diagnoses compared with chest x-ray.

October 19, 2023

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Venture capital funding will prompt radiology AI clearances

Based on recent correlations between venture capital funding and FDA clearances, FDA-cleared radiology AI offerings are expected to increase substantially.

October 18, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Ai

Low-field-strength MRI could be alternative for fetal imaging

By Amerigo Allegretto

An abbreviated low-field-strength fetal MRI protocol can produce reliable structural and functional measures of the fetus and placenta in pregnancy.

October 18, 2023

Images show fetal T2-weighted fast-spin-echo 0.55-T MRI scans at various gestational ages. (A) Miduterine coronal anatomic views from eight representative healthy pregnant participants (scans in control group); (B) planned brain views in sagittal, coronal, and axial orientation from eight representative healthy pregnant participants (scans in control participants); and (C) lung views from eight representative healthy pregnant participants (scans in control group). The scans are shown in four gestational age ranges.

COVID-19 AI model boosts disease detection by radiologists

An AI algorithm designed to diagnose COVID-19 has been validated in a study by radiologists who interpreted x-rays with and without the model.

October 18, 2023

Results of Grad-CAM and Grad-CAM++ for the deep-learning model: (A) normal, (B) pneumonia, and (C) COVID-19. Left column, original chest x-ray image; middle column, result of Grad-CAM; right column, results of Grad-CAM++ .

Enterprise imaging: What is the market opportunity beyond radiology?

By Amy Thompson

Amy Thompson of Signify Research assesses the future prospects for the enterprise imaging market.

October 18, 2023

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AI gives high risk scores to nearly 40% of breast cancers at screening

By Amerigo Allegretto

Nearly four in 10 cases of screen-detected and interval cancers had the highest AI risk score at prior screening.

October 18, 2023

Breast Cancer 3 D 400

Top trends impacting the ultrasound market

By Mustafa Hassan

Mustafa Hassan of Signify Research discusses recent trends in the ultrasound market.

October 17, 2023

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