FUJIFILM Corporation entered a joint research agreement with Indiana University School of Medicine (Indianapolis, Indiana USA), a leading advanced medical institute in the United States, to develop the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging diagnostic support systems, starting today.

More than 100 U.S. healthcare organizations and associations have signed a letter to CMS calling for reduced paperwork requirements in filing evaluation and management (E&M) procedure codes, according to a release from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

Medical imaging has experienced rapid growth in the U.S., with an estimated 80 million CT exams alone performed annually. Authors of a recent Journal of the American College of Radiology study asked: How does abdominal imaging impact the environment?

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.