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Medicare contractors approve reimbursement for AI heart scans
Medicare administrative contractors have approved AI-enabled heart scans for Medicare recipients with coronary artery disease (CAD) symptoms.
October 14, 2024
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FDA clearances boost Therapixel mammography AI offering
Therapixel has received two 510(k) clearances from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
October 11, 2024
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Acquisition expands Solis Mammography into Louisiana
Solis Mammography has acquired Breast Center of Acadiana in South Louisiana.
October 11, 2024
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Radiology Education
HCA Virginia, Brightpoint launch new community radiology education program
HCA Virginia and Brightpoint Community College have entered into a partnership to launch a new radiologic technology degree program.
October 11, 2024
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Medicolegal
Federal grand jury indicts 2 in $54M alleged imaging center fraud
A 24-count federal grand jury indictment of more than $54 million in alleged Medicare fraud involves a Los Angeles-area radiology practice.
October 11, 2024
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Medicolegal
Radiologist testifies in U.K. murder trial
A radiologist in England testified in a trial of a woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter that the girl’s injuries were consistent with those usually seen in high-velocity motor vehicle accidents.
October 10, 2024
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AI
Microsoft unveils new healthcare AI offerings
The company has introduced several multimodal foundation models for medical imaging applications.
October 10, 2024
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Regulatory
ACR opposes MAC consolidation by CMS
The ACR criticized CMS for the potential consolidation of four Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) jurisdictions into two jurisdictions.
October 10, 2024
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Practice Management
Konica Minolta, Clearpath partner on image sharing platform
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Konica Minolta is partnering with Clearpath to integrate the latter's platform for sharing images from the Exa Platform.
October 10, 2024
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Womens Imaging
MedCognetics highlights AI image processing system for mammography
MedCognetics is highlighting the successful testing and implementation of an embedded AI image processing and cancer detection system for mammography.
October 10, 2024
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Molecular Imaging
Immuno-PET/CT detects myeloma missed by FDG-PET/CT
Standard FDG PET/CT misses active multiple myeloma in 30% to 50% of patients with biopsy-proven disease.
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'ExRad' data shows wide variations in CT radiation dose
Four mammography scan images showing breast tissue from different views with measurement annotations and technical parameters.
Womens Imaging
CEM improves margin extent measurement, falls short of primary outcome
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ChatGPT performs well on radiation oncology patient care questions
By Will Morton
ChatGPT may be a valuable resource for radiation oncology patients.
April 2, 2024
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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?
By Will Morton
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
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PET/MRI may improve diagnosis of Cushing disease
By Will Morton
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
By Will Morton
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
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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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MRI reveals effects of risk factors on vulnerable brain regions
By Kate Madden Yee
MRI shows the effects particular risk factors such as diabetes, air pollution, and frequency of alcohol use have on "higher-order" brain regions located in the cerebral cortex, researchers have found.
March 27, 2024
To the left of the figure, the red-yellow color denotes the regions that degenerate earlier than the rest of the brain and are vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease. These brain areas are higher-order regions that process and combine information coming from our different senses. To the right of the figure, each dot represents the brain data from one UK Biobank participant. The overall curve shows that, in these particularly fragile regions of the brain, there is accelerated degeneration with age. Image courtesy of Gwenaëlle Douaud, PhD, and Jordi Manuello, PhD.
Deep learning helps distinguish benign vertebral fractures on CT
By Kate Madden Yee
A deep-learning algorithm used with CT imaging can differentiate between benign and malignant vertebral fractures, researchers have found.
March 27, 2024
Overview of the automated deep learning-based pipeline. Multidetector CT images show the (A) original data, (B, C) vertebral segmentation, and (D-F) vertebral labeling during preprocessing. Images and caption courtesy of the RSNA.
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