Radiology patients are confident artificial intelligence will improve healthcare workflow and efficiency, but they’re skeptical of the tech itself and remain unsure of how AI will factor into the patient experience, according to a study published online March 14 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

On scans from several different MRI techniques, regular alcohol consumption correlates with regional changes in the brain as well as with various cognitive abilities. And those most sensitive to alcohol’s viewable and observable effects are men and individuals whose faces blush upon intake.

Family physicians as well as medical students appreciate the opportunity to bone up on radiology via online classrooms using the popular Second Life platform. And while doctors tend to immerse themselves in the process with somewhat lower intensity, all seem to readily take to radiology training with avatars and other features of the virtual world. 

Authors of the research, published in the Korean Journal of Radiology, analyzed 516 published studies and found only six percent (31 studies) externally validated their AI.

Kinematic quantitative 4D CT can help differentiate patients with subtalar joint stiffness and chronic ankle instability, reported authors of a March 5 study published in the European Journal of Radiology. The technique may better personalize care for patients with ankle joint pain.

An AI approach developed by Dutch researchers performed similarly to radiologists at detecting breast cancer, according to a multi-center, multi-dataset study published March 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The research team also found combining 4D CT and technetium-99m sestamibi SPECT/CT did not improve diagnostic performance compared to 4D CT alone.

Individual language is significantly impacted by what we hear, and a team of researchers from New York University used various imaging methods to determine that our brain’s pathways play a central role in speech development.