Diagnostic screening programs help catch cancer, abnormalities or other diseases before they reach an advanced stage, saving lives and healthcare costs. Screening programs include, lung, breast, prostate, and cervical cancer, among many others.
Ultrasound is routinely used to screen for HCC. However, its utility is limited by numerous factors, including patient body habitus, operator experience and certain liver conditions, all of which contribute to decreases in sensitivity.
In conjunction with prevention efforts, the introduction of screening examinations has resulted in a reduction of nearly 6 million cancer-related deaths since 1975.
Breast density is most often discussed within the context of cancer risk, but new research suggests that it also could be used as a marker of cardiometabolic health.
The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has developed the PACT (Physicians Adopting Computer Technologies) conferences to address various concerns clinicians and healthcare practices face when selecting, buying and installing an
A new, multi-year agreement between Marietta Memorial Hospital of Marietta, Ohio and Philips Medical Systems will outfit the healthcare facility with Philips' diagnostic imaging equipment, software and services.
Siemens Medical Solutions introduced the Axiom Artis dBA, a flat panel detector-based neurointerventional biplane system, at the LINC Course, "Endovascular Neuroradiology Workshop and Live Cases," Oct. 9 - 13, in Houston, Texas.
Addressing the industry's transition to digital imaging and information management, Eastman Kodak Co.'s Health Imaging Group this week hosted its first "Digital Transformation: A Symposium for Radiology and the Healthcare Enterprise" at the Manchester Gra
Following its roadmap plan for bioinformatics and computational biology, the National Institutes of Health this week named four new national centers for biomedical computing that will develop and implement the core of a universal computing infrastructure
e2v technologies showcased TomoTherapy Inc.'s Hi-Art radiotherapy system bundled with its compact modulator at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) this week in Atlanta.
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.
