On May 17, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) announced the Value Initiative Industry Alliance—a collaboration among corporate community members that will help implement the organization’s Value Initiative and advance nuclear medicine.

Only two percent of heavy smokers—those who smoke a pack a day—in the U.S. currently receive lung cancer screenings, according to a recent press release from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

Coronary CT angiography (CTA) is diagnostically accurate in detecting scaffold luminal obstruction, according to a team of international researchers, signaling it may become the preferred method for evaluating patients treated with bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS)—but not all experts agree.

The country's first "no compression" breast imaging unit opened May 16 at the Knoxville Comprehensive Breast Center (KCBC) in Tennessee, according to WFMYNews2 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

In a recent editorial published in The New York Times Magazine, Abraham Verghese, MD, a professor of internal medicine at Stanford, explained that the popularity of electronic health records (EHRs) and the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine may be overriding physicians' own clinical judgement more than helping to inform it.

The Kimia Lab at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, announced it has received $3.7 million from the Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence program for its artificial intelligence (AI) search engine project in digital pathology.

The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) announced its support of the FDA's recent decision to promote the adoption of quality management principles in medical equipment servicing, according to a statement released May 15.

On Tuesday, May 16, the vice president of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) testified in front of an Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) committee, stating the proposed tariffs on Chinese imports would equate to $2.25 billion in taxes on many of its members, which include medical imaging device manufacturers.

In 2005, just 27 percent of men under 65 passed on immediate therapy and instead opted for “watchful waiting” or “active surveillance” for low-risk prostate cancer. A decade later, in 2015, 72 percent decided on a more conservative approach, according to a JAMA study.

Researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland developed a machine learning software able to detect small vessel disease, a common cause of dementia and stroke, in brain CT scans with almost 90 percent accuracy.