The U.S. Senate passed a $854 billion “minibus” bill on Thursday, Aug. 23, which includes funding for HHS and an amendment filed by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, to increase federal screening programs for the detection and treatment black lung disease in U.S. coal miners.  

Researchers have created an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm capable of reading CT scans to predict how patients will respond to a specific immunotherapy, according to a Lancet Oncology study.

“We found no evidence of intracranial gadolinium deposition on brain MR images in patients who had intraarticular gadolinium administered for MR arthrography and no other GBCA exposure,” wrote lead author Lauren Ladd, MD, and a radiologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) kicked off its second annual machine learning challenge on Aug. 27, inviting teams to create an algorithm capable of identifying and localizing pneumonia on chest x-rays.

Researchers found coronary computed tomography angiogram (CTA) in addition to standard cardiac testing may reduce patients at risk for coronary heart disease or a heart attack.

Administrating oral contrasts to patients with nontraumatic abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED) amounted to more than $85,000 annually, according to authors of a single-institution study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

“The technology’s usefulness may come down to a deeper question: How effective are stents for treating heart disease, and do you even need to know whether an artery is open or not?” according to an article published Aug. 27 by Forbes.

Institutions aim to enhance value-based care through application of research and engineering expertise

MRI measurement of small bowel motility was found to be as effective as invasive techniques in measuring Crohn's disease activity, authors of a recent Radiology study reported. The method may reduce the need for endoscopy.

German and Russian researchers have developed a new injection diagnosis system based on magnetoferritin that may improve MRI accuracy, cancer diagnosis and treatment options.