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Qure.ai receives Class III license from Health Canada

Qure.ai has received a Class III medical device licence from Health Canada for all its medical imaging AI products.

July 22, 2024

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Imaging Leaders

Elucid names Kelly Huang as company president, CEO

Cardiovascular imaging AI firm Elucid has named Kelly Huang, PhD, as the company's president and CEO.

July 22, 2024

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Lunit deploying AI software in Qatar's breast screening program

Lunit is implementing its AI-powered breast cancer detection software, Lunit Insight MMG, in Qatar's national breast cancer screening program.

July 22, 2024

ACR issues detailed summary of 2025 HOPPS

The ACR has released a detailed summary of the U.S. CMS's proposed 2025 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS).

July 19, 2024

SwissrayUS and Nanox ink partnership

SwissrayUS has partnered with Israel-based Nanox in an agreement to provide service capabilities for Nanox products in the U.S.

July 19, 2024

Molecular Imaging

Telix reports spike in revenue in Q2

Melbourne, Australia-based Telix Pharmaceuticals reported a spike in revenue for the second quarter of 2024.

July 19, 2024

Imaging Informatics

ContextVision to enter data quality market

ContextVision is establishing clinical and commercial partnerships to expand into the data quality market.

July 19, 2024

Business Strategy

Elucid to launch CT registry study

Medical AI technology company Elucid has begun site recruitment for its PRE-VUE CT Registry Study.

July 19, 2024

Radiologist in Gaza details Israeli detainment

A radiologist in Gaza told his story of mistreatment during his seven months in Israeli detention in a National Public Radio (NPR) interview.

July 18, 2024

Molecular Imaging

SNMMI opposes conversion factor cuts to MPFS

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is opposing conversion factor cuts to the MPFS in CMS' proposed rule for 2025.

July 18, 2024

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Does advanced imaging in stroke patients improve outcomes?

Conventional or advanced imaging selection of EVT patients did not result in significant differences in 90-day clinical outcomes.

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Safety concerns lead to suspension of CT service at Belgian hospital

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Centrally located lung cancer may lead to poor patient outcomes

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Breast Cancer

Experts issue appropriate use criteria for molecular breast imaging

HPI study shows radiologists at MIPS disadvantage

By Kate Madden Yee

In 2021, radiologists in radiology-only practices scored significantly lower on relevant MIPS measures than other specialties.

April 3, 2024

Microwave ablation on par with surgery for thyroid cancer survival

By Amerigo Allegretto

Microwave ablation may be a suitable alternative to surgical resection when it comes to ultrasound-detected thyroid cancer.

April 2, 2024

Ultrasound images in a 57-year-old female patient with multifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma. (A) Routine ultrasound scan shows two hypoechoic papillary thyroid carcinoma nodules (arrows) in the left lobe. (B) Preablation contrast-enhanced ultrasound image shows hypoenhancement in the arterial phase (arrows). (C) Isolating fluid (black arrow) is used to protect the muscles beside the nodule (white arrow) during the ablation. (D) Postablation contrast-enhanced ultrasound image shows no enhancement in the original tumor zone (arrows). Image courtesy of the RSNA.

ChatGPT performs well on radiation oncology patient care questions

ChatGPT may be a valuable resource for radiation oncology patients.

April 2, 2024

SBI president previews annual symposium

By Amerigo Allegretto

Mimi Newell, MD, president of the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI), spoke with AuntMinnie.com about the upcoming SBI annual symposium.

April 2, 2024

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Is CTA overused in the emergency department?

By Amerigo Allegretto

CT angiography (CTA) may be overused in the emergency department, new research suggests.

April 1, 2024

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Can Chat GPT accurately refer patients to IR for treatment?

By Chloe G. Cross, MD

In interventional radiology (IR), most of us quickly become accustomed to needing to explain what we do. But how do patients get their own information about IR, if at all?

April 1, 2024

Interventional Radiology

Can AI help chest DDR achieve clinical adoption?

Chest dynamic digital radiography (DDR) may have received a boost toward clinical use in patients with lung disorders, with researchers developing AI to perform time-consuming analysis involved in the technology.

April 1, 2024

(a) Raw example of a dynamic digital radiograph. (b) Contrast equalization using contrast-limited adaptive equalization shows improved anatomical visualization. (c) Training data is generated through manually labeling using SLEAP’s graphical user interface. (d-e) Neural network detection schematic. For each quadrant a series of two networks were used. The first identifies the quadrant center, the second using input of the first, then identifies individual anatomical landmarks within a quadrant. (d) Four neural networks were trained, each with the objective of identifying a chest quadrant centroid. The four separate quadrants are visualized as colored boxes (right upper quadrant, green; right lower quadrant, blue; left upper quadrant, red; left lower quadrant, yellow). (e) Serial centroid then anatomical identification. Two quadrant examples showing confidence maps of trained neural networks identifying quadrant centroids (left) and then anatomical confidence maps (right). Image and caption courtesy of Chest Pulmonary.

How are radiology practices impacted by annual changes to the MPFS?

By Sandy Coffta

With the passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (CAA 24), we finally learned the rates physicians will be paid for Medicare services during the remainder of 2024. Sandy Coffta explains what this means for practices.

March 29, 2024

PET/MRI may improve diagnosis of Cushing disease

PET/MRI could become the diagnostic method of choice over MRI alone for identifying small pituitary tumors associated with Cushing disease.

March 29, 2024

T1-weighted postgadolinium MR images (A and C) and F-18 FET-PET/MR images (B and D) centered at pituitary before (A and B) and after (C and D) transsphenoidal surgery. This patient with Cushing disease showed clear focal uptake (B) but no clear lesion on previously obtained and accompanying MRI (A). Postoperative tissue analysis did confirm resection of small pituitary adenoma/PitNET, and postoperative F-18 FET-PET showed no residual uptake (D). Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Patient access to imaging reports faster post-Cures Act enactment

By Amerigo Allegretto

A key provision in the 21st Century Cures Act has led to decreased time for patients to access imaging results.

March 28, 2024

Median time (hours) from report finalization to first patient access in portal, as well as from report finalization to ordering provider acknowledgment in the electronic medical record, stratified by month. The vertical line represents the health system’s implementation of regulations related to information-blocking provisions of Cures Act.

Industry payments to radiologists total $392M

Out of 39 specialties, radiology was in the top third when ranked by industry payments to doctors over a nine-year period.

March 28, 2024

Safeguarding the future of radiology with imaging informatics

By Shujah Das Gupta, Dhaval Shah

With AI-mediated cyberattacks on the rise, radiologists can find it challenging to balance prompt patient access to diagnostic imaging while safeguarding sensitive healthcare data.

March 28, 2024

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