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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Chest x-rays reveal atherosclerosis in patients undergoing amputations

Lower limb amputation is an increasingly common major complication of advanced peripheral arterial disease and diabetes mellitus.

Cardiac Mri Adobe Samunella

3D MRI technique helps plan treatment for pediatric heart conditions

Images of a 39-year-old who underwent screening mammography. Right craniocaudal (left) and mediolateral oblique (middle) views from preoperative mammography show suspicious grouped fine pleomorphic calcifications (arrows). After biopsy showed ductal carcinoma of situ (DCIS), patient underwent breast-conserving surgery, yielding final diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (intermediate grade, hormone receptor positive). (Right) Screenshot of an output of a commercial AI tool applied to preoperative mammography. AI detected right breast lesion with score of 95% on both views (concentric colored circles). Present study’s reviewing radiologist deemed AI marking to correspond with site of DCIS.

Could AI scoring help with managing DCIS?

Axial contrast-enhanced CT scan in a 28-year-old premenopausal woman shows an incidentally detected solid-appearing left ovarian lesion (solid arrow) anterior to the uterus (U), associated with trace ascites in the right adnexa and cul de sac (dashed arrows). At pathologic analysis, this was shown to be ovarian dysgerminoma. Two readers misdiagnosed this lesion, one as a leiomyoma and one as an ovarian fibroma.

Clinicians, beware: CT diagnostic accuracy varies by adnexal lesion type

Erin Stephens

Radiology coding update for 2026

Football head impacts affect brain regions linked to mental health

By Kate Madden Yee

Is playing tackle football linked to changes in brain surface structure and functional alterations in adolescents?

February 1, 2024

Football Players Scrimmage

FDA defines 'transparency' for AI medical devices

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sketched out details to help improve the transparency of AI software product information.

February 1, 2024

How can radiation oncology build its workforce?

By Amerigo Allegretto

Radiation oncology continues to experience workforce challenges, but radiology departments and medical schools can help spur interest in the specialty.

February 1, 2024

Radiation Therapy Suite 400

Residents describe use of POCUS for high-risk pregnancies in Nepal

By Amerigo Allegretto

American radiology residents have reported on clinical rotations in Nepal during which they used point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) with high-risk pregnancies in a recent commentary.

February 1, 2024

Ultrasound 3 D Fetal Head 400

BERT-based AI poised for use in radiology

Large language models based on Google’s BERT are poised to play a pivotal role in radiology.

January 31, 2024

Could yoga help radiologists deal with burnout?

By Amerigo Allegretto

Yoga could be a safe and practical way to alleviate burnout symptoms in radiologists, according to a recent study.

January 31, 2024

Doctor Stress 400

Using deep learning with CT helps predict hip fractures

By Kate Madden Yee

A deep-learning model that includes digital x-rays reconstructed from 3D hip CT images shows promise for predicting subsequent fractures in patients with a relatively recent hip break, researchers have found.

January 31, 2024

PSMA-PET helps plan treatment in men with relapsed prostate cancer

PSMA-PET led to management changes in one-third of men receiving salvage radiotherapy for prostate cancer that recurred after radical prostatectomy.

January 31, 2024

Prostate Cancer

AI improves performance of nonradiologists in chest imaging

By Amerigo Allegretto

AI improves imaging interpretation by nonradiologist practitioners, which could aid in low-resource settings.

January 30, 2024

Chest X Ray Lateral View 400

Can PET help diagnose neurosarcoidosis?

FDG-PET imaging shows promise for use as a diagnostic criterion for neurosarcoidosis, with a recent case series illustrating the approach was effective when gold-standard approaches were not, according to a group of researchers in Berlin.

January 30, 2024

F-18 FDG-PET and MRI scans of three patients. (A.1-B.1) F-18 FDG-PET (A1 sagittal PET; B1 transaxial fused PET/CT) showing intense hypermetabolism in the lower thoracical spinal cord (blue arrow). (C.1) Transaxial MRI-scan (T1_TSE_FS) showing no abnormal gadolinium enhancement in the lumbar spinal cord (blue arrow). (A.2-B.2) F-18 FDG-PET (A2 sagittal PET; B2 transaxial fused PET/CT) showing hypermetabolism in the cervical spinal cord (blue arrow). (C.2) Transaxial MRI scan (T1_TSE_FS) showing no abnormal gadolinium enhancement in the cervical spinal cord (blue arrow). (A.3-B.3) F-18 FDG-PET (A3 sagittal PET; B3 transaxial fused PET/CT) showing bilateral hypermetabolism the precuneus region (blue arrow). (C.3) Transaxial MRI scan (T1_MPRAGE) showing no abnormal gadolinium enhancement in precuneus region (blue arrow). Image courtesy of Neurological Research and Practice.

Deep learning could improve lung ultrasound interpretation

By Amerigo Allegretto

Deep learning could improve real-time lung ultrasound interpretation.

January 30, 2024

Workflow diagram showing real-time lung ultrasound segmentation with U-Net. Images available for republishing under Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0 DEED, Attribution 4.0 International) and courtesy of Ultrasonics.

EVT appears underused in certain stroke patients

Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) may be an underused procedure in patients who experience stroke during or after cardiac surgery.

January 30, 2024

Interventionalist

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