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.

New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA
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.
PHOTO GALLERY: Medical imaging technology at RSNA 2024
Take a virtual tour around the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting to see the sights and new technologies displayed across the vast exhibit hall floors.
Cardiology, radiology specialists debate CCTA’s rise as a go-to imaging modality for CAD
CCTA is being utilized more and more for the diagnosis and management of suspected coronary artery disease. An international group of specialists shared their perspective on this ongoing trend.
Can large language models break language barriers in radiology reports?
With the growing demand for virtual care and an increasingly mobile population, the need to improve communication with non-English-speaking patients is immense.
Most patients want to know if AI is involved in their care
“With this signal about the public’s preference for notification, the question for health systems and policymakers is not whether to notify patients but when and how.”

Hide & seek: Study shows spiculation can confuse breast imagers

Lesion spiculation may hinder breast cancer detection, according to a study published in the May issue of Academic Radiology. The study, which identified mammographic features that reduce detection, offers insights for radiology training programs and CAD algorithm development.

May 1, 2013

New Yorkers weigh in on patient portal design

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), a health IT nonprofit in the Empire State, has organized the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge, asking developers to build innovative and user-friendly portals for patient information access.

April 26, 2013

Video: MR makes perfect fit for amputees

An MIT postdoctoral student has coupled MR images of amputees’ limbs and 3D computing to re-engineer the fit between prosthetic limbs and the body, which could address a major issue of discomfort for amputees.

April 24, 2013

New Agfa HealthCare Saudi Arabia Company Ltd puts focus on key growth market

Agfa HealthCare announces that it will establish a new subsidiary in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Called Agfa HealthCare Saudi Arabia Company Ltd., this legal entity will be formally launched at a press conference to be held on May 13 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

April 23, 2013

MR biomarkers may help ID patients at risk for MS conversion

Development of thalamic and central atrophy as measured by MR may accurately predict which patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) will convert to clinically definite multiple sclerosis (CDMS) over a two-year period, according to a study published April 23 in Radiology. The findings could change how physicians view MS and how drugs are developed, the researchers noted. 

April 22, 2013

Spotlighting the Ballet of Mitosis

Like a pair of dancers sheathed in blue, two chromosomes take the cell’s center stage in this scene from the elegant—and usually perfectly performed—process of mitosis.

April 18, 2013

CAD conundrum: Software ups DCIS detection & diagnostic testing

The use of screening mammography CAD among Medicare patients is associated with increased incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), diagnosis of earlier stage breast cancer and additional downstream testing, according to a study published April 15 in Annals of Internal Medicine.

April 17, 2013

Tufts Medical Center Reports Carestream’s Web-Based Image Viewer Equips Physicians with Better, Faster Access to Patient Information

Physicians at Tufts Medical Center (Boston, Mass.) are enthusiastic about gaining instant access to patient imaging studies via the Web on devices such as the iPad using the CARESTREAM Vue Motion viewer.

April 16, 2013

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