Shear-wave elastography (SWE) may help distinguish musculoskeletal soft-tissue lesions as benign or malignant in conjunction with conventional ultrasound, according to research published online Nov. 27 in Radiology.

Convicted of writing prescriptions for non-medical reasons, former University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) radiologist Marios Papachristou is now asking for probation after claiming he only used the pills for his addiction, not money-making purposes, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.

GE Healthcare and VA Puget Sound Health Care System today announced a partnership to accelerate the use of 3D imaging in healthcare. As part of their research agreement, GE Healthcare will provide software and work stations, and the VA will provide input on its use of the technology. Prior to this agreement, the VA has used 3D software that is not designed for medical use. Now, the VA will use GE software designed specifically for the medical field – which is expected to reduce the time it takes to create 3D models from hours to minutes.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough device designation for an artificial intelligence (AI) pattern recognition software being developed by Bayer and Merck & Co. in New Jersey that can identify signs of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH)—a rare form of hypertension—in CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) scans, according to a Dec. 3 press release.

Authors of a recent study reported improved survival in patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) whose first-line therapy was guided by PET/CT instead of CT alone.

If finalized, the proposed regulations and requirements of the new rule will “provide structure, clarity and transparency” for the De Novo classification process and include processes and criteria for accepting, granting, declining and withdrawing De Novo requests, according to the FDA.

Global research and development firm Cambridge Consultants, in the U.K. has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software able to reconstruct images in real-time that have been previously damaged or obscured, according to a Dec. 4 report by Venture Beat.

RadiologyInfo.org recently launched RadInfo 4 Kids, an area of the website with videos, games and activities to help ease young patient’s fears of imaging exams.

A new analysis conducted by researchers at McKinsey & Company in New York, published Dec. 4 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, identified artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain as the focus for most global medical imaging startups, and potentially for the future of medical imaging.

A deep learning-based approach accurately predicted aneurysm size from magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) images, reported the authors of a Dec. 3 study published in the Journal of Digital Imaging.