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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Iterative reconstruction maintains or improves image quality while reducing dose in cranial CT

Iterative reconstruction improves the quality of images of stroke patients’ brains while also allowing for radiation dose reduction, according to researchers at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

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CT colonography tattles on false negatives in colonoscopy

Colonoscopy misses or misjudges a substantial percentage of polyps that CT colonography can correctly flag as problematic, a study at the University of Wisconsin suggests.

Computer-extracted imaging features that ID prostate cancer: 5 findings

Using computer-extracted features to improve prostate cancer diagnosis at MR imaging has powerful potential, but what features are best to discriminate cancer from benign disease?

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Art meets medicine: New 3D tour of heart on display in Austrian museum

Medical images are not just profoundly useful at advancing care, they can also be quite beautiful. An example of art meeting medical research was recently put on display at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria.

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Heart-health risks show up in brain MRI as early predictors of Alzheimer’s

Drinking, smoking and chronic overeating are among the risky behaviors known to hurt not only the heart but also the brain. A new study combining cognitive testing with brain MRI provides a clearer picture of this gradual undoing of the mind in process.

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Plastic bot could offer assist during MR-guided surgery

Robot-assisted surgery and MR-guided procedures are two advances that are transforming medicine. The two are difficult to mix, however, given the strong magnetic fields of MRI scanners.

Cerner to Replace Department of Defense's Anatomic Pathology Laboratory Information System

The Defense Health Agency (DHA) has selected Cerner, which competed and successfully won an award, to replace the Military Health System's (MHS) existing anatomic pathology laboratory information system.

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Functional MRI shows brain changes after a single harrowing experience

First they thought they were about to die in a plane that had lost all power over the Atlantic Ocean. Then they survived an emergency landing on a chancy island airfield. Now some of the nearly 300 passengers of Air Transat Flight 236 are helping to show how post-traumatic stress disorder permanently alters the way the brain processes new information as well as memories—good, bad and neutral.

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