Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

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fMRI shows mindfulness therapy countering the brain effects of PTSD

Using functional MRI, researchers at the University of Michigan and the VA in Ann Arbor have shown that mindfulness training can increase resting-state functional connectivity in the brains of combat veterans suffering with PTSD. 

Skin cell imaging: How do wounds heal?

Researchers from Duke University have developed a new imaging system using zebrafish cells to study how skin responds to disease and injury.

Future tech: Holographic microscope visualizes living cells in 3D

Korean researchers have developed a new holographic imaging tool capable of viewing and analyzing living cells in 3D without staining.

How dangerous are errant nanoparticles? New imaging technology aims to find out

As modern manufacturing, consumer products and industrial processes continue to utilize the rapidly evolving science of nanotechnology, identifying and studying the possible adverse effects of nanoparticle exposure is vital to ensuring the health and safety of consumers, industry workers and the environment.

Novel imaging method allows researchers to view strokes on a molecular level

New research led by scientists at the University of Missouri School of Medicine could accelerate stroke care by using imaging to track enzyme formation inside the brains of stroke victims in real-time, according to results of a study recently published in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism.

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New molecular MRI tags glow 10,000 times brighter than existing signals

Researchers from Duke University have developed a new type of molecular tag that can enhance MRI signals by up to 10,000 times, according to results of a study published in the March 25 issue of Science Advances.

Neurorads giving mini-MRI a try at Mayo

The Mayo Clinic has installed a prototype MRI brain scanner from GE that’s one-third the size of—and 10 times lighter than—standard MR scanners. Yet, despite its diminutive footprint, the machine totes a powerful 3-T magnet.

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Don’t be surprised if a 3D printer saves, improves or otherwise changes your life

From re-imagining medical imaging to replacing tissues and organs to designing “human-centered” medicines, 3D printing is emerging as the healthcare technology to reckon with in the 21st century. 

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.