Will Morton

Will Morton, Associate Editor, AuntMinnie.com.

Will got hooked on science and medicine in the late 1990s as a staff writer at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Prior to that, he had stints at newspapers in the Boston area. He also has experience editing health magazines for a national nonprofit and copywriting for large health systems. Will joined AuntMinnie.com in 2021 and covers digital x-ray and molecular imaging. He lives in Portland, OR, where he golfs year-round.

Digital X-Ray
DSM-TACE is safe when nothing else works
Tuesday, November 30 | 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. | SSIR02-5 | Room TBAThis interventional radiology session will provide information on a German study that evaluated the safety and efficacy of transarterial chemoembolization with degradable starch microspheres (DSM-TACE) for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. The patients had high tumor burden and were ineligible for or were failing other palliative therapies.
November 16, 2021
Digital X-Ray
Deep-learning tool can help in THA surveillance
Tuesday, November 30 | 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. | SSMK05-3 | Room TBAResearch to develop a fully automated deep-learning tool to measure femoral component subsidence on hip x-ray without any user input will be discussed in this Tuesday morning session. A team at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, believes that its artificial intelligence-enabled algorithm could improve total hip arthroplasty (THA) radiographic surveillance efforts.
November 16, 2021
Digital X-Ray
Researchers test x-ray prototype
Monday, November 29 | 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. | SSPH04-5 | Room TBAThis talk will cover a prototype of a low-dose, multicontrast chest x-ray system that can provide three mutually complementary images from a single acquisition. The new system is fast and eventually could be put to use diagnosing and screening for lung cancer, researchers suggest.
November 16, 2021
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Digital X-Ray
CNN model can help diagnose foot deformity
Sunday, November 28 | 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | SSMK03-2 | Room TBASouth Korean researchers will report in this session on a convolutional neural network (CNN) model for automatically diagnosing foot deformity on standing lateral radiographs of the foot. The model appears to work well enough to help in settings with inexperienced readers, according to the group.
November 16, 2021
Molecular Imaging
PET imaging lays foundation for new cancer therapies
PET imaging of cancer patients with an experimental gallium-68 (Ga-68) tracer may be a reliable way to evaluate new therapies, according to a study published November 5 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
November 7, 2021
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Molecular Imaging
CMS scrubs rule restricting PET tracer coverage
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has officially retired national noncoverage language from the books for PET imaging using radiopharmaceuticals for nononcologic indications.
November 4, 2021
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Clinical News
Dark-field x-ray shows promise for diagnosing emphysema in COPD
New research has shown that dark-field x-ray can be clinically effective in humans -- in this case, diagnosing emphysema in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study in the November issue of Lancet Digital Health.
November 4, 2021
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Molecular Imaging
PET tracer proves effective for assessing immunotherapy
PET imaging can show whether patients with melanoma or non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) will respond to immunotherapy treatment, according to a study published November 1 in Annals of Oncology.
November 3, 2021
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MRI
Head-to-head MRI protocol calms kids in scanner
Bringing parents into the MRI bore and positioning them head-to-head with their children can help fidgety kids complete cardiac MRI studies without using sedation, according to a report in the November issue of European Journal of Radiology.
October 27, 2021
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Clinical News
Chest x-ray valuable in COVID-19 follow-up exams
Chest x-rays performed three months after patients with COVID-19 are discharged from hospital can identify those who might need additional follow-up treatment, according to a study published October 22 in Radiography.
October 26, 2021
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Digital X-Ray
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.
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MRI
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.
Womens Imaging
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.
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Clinicians, beware: CT diagnostic accuracy varies by adnexal lesion type
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Practice Management
Radiology coding update for 2026
More in Home
HPI: MIPS performance measures biased for practice size
By Maryam Payne
A report from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) suggests individual radiologists are at a disadvantage in the MIPS program.
February 26, 2025
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ECR: CT lung imaging features predict progression to pulmonary fibrosis
By Kate Madden Yee
Imaging and clinical features of interstitial lung abnormalities can predict progression to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
February 26, 2025
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ECR: Generative AI yields potential for assisting radiologists
By Amerigo Allegretto
Generative AI may have novel applications in the clinic, but using the technology comes with its share of challenges and future directions.
February 26, 2025
Marc Kohli, MD, discusses current and potential future uses of generative AI in radiology at ECR 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Behind him is an image created by one such generative AI model, which illustrates humans working alongside AI.
LLM Mistral rivals GPT-4 Turbo for extracting clinical history elements
By Liz Carey
Mistral outperformed Llama and GPT-4 Turbo in a real-world application that assessed the completeness of clinical histories accompanying radiology imaging orders from the emergency department.
February 25, 2025
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AI helps predict kidney function decline in Lu-177 patients
By Will Morton
An open-source AI tool can help predict renal function decline in prostate cancer patients undergoing lutetium-177 (Lu-177) radiopharmaceutical therapy.
February 25, 2025
An axial CT image illustrating segmentation of functioning kidney tissue (blue areas), excluding kidney cysts and renal pelvis, using TotalSegmentator. Image and caption courtesy of RSNA.
New MRI technique reveals lung abnormalities in kids with long COVID
By Kate Madden Yee
An advanced type of MR imaging shows that children and adolescents with long COVID have significant lung abnormalities, according to a recent study.
February 25, 2025
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What's best practice for using AI for thoracic imaging?
By Kate Madden Yee
The use of AI in thoracic imaging has begun to demonstrate "cumulative evidence of effectiveness," but more testing and research are needed to determine its feasibility for this application.
February 25, 2025
Lung Ct Images
Breast ultrasound effective for screening women with dense tissue
By Kate Madden Yee
Ultrasound can play a significant role in cancer detection for women with dense breast tissue where access to supplemental screening with MRI and/or contrast mammography is limited, researchers have reported.
February 25, 2025
Breast Ultrasound
Digital mammograms yield more info for radiomics than synthetic images
By Amerigo Allegretto
Digital mammograms may be best for informing radiomics models that assess breast density.
February 25, 2025
Delineation workflow: The various steps of the contouring process: (a) the nipple is manually annotated (b) a reference point is placed 30 mm behind the nipple (c) 10 random theta/displacement values are selected to obtain the central point of each ROI (d) Regions of interest are placed on the image. (e) The resulting 10 ROIs obtained for a representative subject (viewing window [0 10000]). Images are published under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
PET/CT predicts relapse in patients with ovarian cancer
By Will Morton
Pretreatment F-18 FDG-PET/CT scans may predict relapse in patients with advanced high-grade serous ovarian cancer.
February 24, 2025
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Adding AI to brain MRI finds previously occult epilepsy lesions in kids
By Kate Madden Yee
Using an AI tool with brain MRI in children finds 64% of focal cortical dysplasias -- abnormalities linked to epilepsy -- that radiologists miss, researchers have reported.
February 24, 2025
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1 in 20 women around the world diagnosed with breast cancer
By Amerigo Allegretto
About one in 20 women globally are diagnosed with breast cancer and women living in low- to middle-income countries are at higher risk.
February 24, 2025
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