CT reveals influence of diabetes on COVID-19 severity
CT imaging reveals the influence of blood glucose levels on the severity of COVID-19, researchers have reported.
A team led by Dan Lu, PhD, of Kunming Medical University in Yunnan, China, found that the quality of blood glucose control significantly correlated with patients' CT severity score, with higher blood glucose measured translating to higher severity of COVID-19's lung effects. The results were published April 23 in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition.
"Previous research has shown that, compared with normal infected individuals, patients with diabetes exhibit more severe conditions in terms of clinica...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Chest Radiology Source Type: news
Esaote reports growth in fiscal year 2023
Italian medical device vendor Esaote posted increased revenues for fiscal year 2023, citing upticks in sales in its ultrasound and MRI segments.
Financial results for the company's full fiscal year (end-December 31) showed revenues of 273.2 million euros ($292 million), up 6.5% over fiscal year 2022.
Sales increased in all business lines, especially in the ultrasound segment (9.7%), driven by the launch in early 2023 of its MyLabTMX90 cart system, Esaote said. The company’s MRI sector was up 3.3% over fiscal year 2022, driven by sales of its Magnifico Open "total-body" open magnet system.
The company reported a consol...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
NewVue partners with Electromek to deploy workflow software
Tampa, FL-based radiology AI software company NewVue has entered a partnership with imaging equipment and IT services company Electromek Diagnostic Systems.
Under the agreement, Electromek will market, promote, and resell NewVue's primary offering, EmpowerSuite, across the U.S. EmpowerSuite is a radiology workflow management platform designed to optimize radiology operations, eliminate the need for multiple worklists, and reduce administrative burdens, NewVue said.
The agreement was effective March 1, according to the firm. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
ChatGPT-4 not reliable in cancer patient messaging
ChatGPT-4 is not a reliable source for answering patients’ questions regarding cancer, a study published April 24 in The Lancet Digital Health found.
Researchers led by Danielle Bitterman, MD, from Mass General Brigham in Boston, MA, found that ChatGPT-4 generated acceptable messages to patients without any additional editing by radiation oncologists 58% of the time, and 7% of responses generated by GPT-4 were deemed unsafe by the radiation oncologists if left unedited.
“Taking the collective evidence as a whole, I would still consider generative AI for patient messaging at its current stage to be experimental,” Bi...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Radiation Oncology/Therapy Advanced Visualization Source Type: news
State of the RT profession more palpable than ever
As the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) prepares to announce changes to its professional pathways and practice standards at its June meeting in Orlando, FL, ASRT Board President Brandon Smith said the state of the field is "more palpable than ever." An ASRT video published in March began setting the stage for what is to come from the collective professional trust of 18 radiologic science organizations. Together, they form the Consensus Committee on the Future of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy. With industry guidance on professional-entry pathways coming soon, the Consensus Committee's findings...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 24, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: Jobs Market Analysis Associations Careers Radiologic Technologist Source Type: news
ChatGPT performs poorly on ACR exam for residents
ChatGPT-4 received a score of 58% on an exam by the American College of Radiology (ACR) used to assess the skills of diagnostic and interventional radiology residents, according to a study published April 22 in Academic Radiology.
A team at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY, prompted ChatGPT-4 to answer 106 questions on the ACR’s Diagnostic Radiology In-Training (DXIT) exam, with its performance underscoring both the chatbot’s potential and risks as a diagnostic tool, noted lead author David Payne, MD, and colleagues.
“While minimally prompted GPT-4 was seen to make many impressive observations and diagnose...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 24, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Artificial Intelligence Residents/Fellows Source Type: news
SPECT/CT predicts foot amputations in diabetics
Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) white blood cell SPECT/CT imaging may be useful for identifying diabetic patients at risk of amputations due to foot infections, according to a study published April 22 in Scientific Reports.
Researchers at Soonchunhyang University in Seoul, South Korea, found that patients were more likely to undergo amputations when they had high Tc-99m-labeled white blood cell activity at infection sites compared to patients with lower activity. The marker could help identify which patients need more aggressive interventions to avoid amputations, the group suggested.
“There is no efficient imaging tool establ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 24, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Source Type: news
Clinical practice LCS program finds more disease than NLST
Over a five-year period, a clinical practice lung cancer screening program at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, found more disease than did the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), researchers have reported.
The program showed a higher rate of lung cancer compared to the NLST’s, at 3.4% versus 2.4%. It also found more stage IV disease, wrote a team led by Kyle Lafata, PhD. The results were published April 23 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
“As LCS uptake increases, monitoring and tracking screening outcomes in clinical practice settings is key to high-quality screening and success,...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 24, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Chest Radiology Source Type: news
Voiant and Thirona enter commercial partnership
Waltham, MA-based clinical trial imaging services provider Voiant and Dutch AI software developer Thirona have entered a global commercial partnership.
The partnership combines Voiant's expertise in supporting clinical trials in pulmonary drug and treatment development with Thirona's AI software for lung image analysis. The companies will offer an integrated platform designed to deliver precise imaging endpoints in trials.
Voiant's network includes more than 400 certified clinical trial sites, while Thirona's software products include algorithms for chest CT image analysis. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 24, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Spectral AI names CEO of Spectral IP, plans spin-off
Dallas-based spectral imaging device developer Spectral AI has named Erich Spangenberg as chief executive officer (CEO) of its recently formed subsidiary, Spectral IP.
Spangenberg is Spectral AI’s largest shareholder and has experience in global intellectual property (IP) investment, monetization, enforcement, acquisition, and licensing, the company said. He is the founder and co-managing partner of Sauvegarder Investment Management, an investment firm dedicated to IP-related financing.
In addition, Spectral AI said that Spangenberg will explore a potential spin-off for Spectral IP.
“I believe I can secure an additi...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 24, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Hyperfine highlights abstracts to be presented at ISMRM 2024
Hyperfine is highlighting 17 ultralow-field MRI-related abstracts to be presented at the 2024 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) annual meeting, to be held from May 4 to 9 in Singapore.
The abstracts span a variety of use cases, including two that highlight the utility of brain images acquired with the ultralow-field Swoop Portable MR Imaging system to aid physicians in screening for various biomarkers and monitoring disease progression unique to neurodegenerative diseases. These include Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 23, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Beyond2020 highlights AI-powered mammography services in Costa Rica
Beyond2020, an initiative launched by the Zayed Sustainability Prize, is highlighting the deployment of AI-powered mammography services across Costa Rica to support women living in underprivileged communities.
The prize is the United Arab Emirates' award for sustainability and humanitarianism. The initiative aims to improve access to high-quality healthcare for women in the region. A total of 8,000 tests will be conducted annually using the AI-based mammography services, which have been deployed in Juan Pablo II Medical Centre in Cartago, with plans to deploy the services in additional health facilities in the future.A te...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 23, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Radiologists can take steps toward environmental sustainability
Radiology departments can take proactive steps to promote environmental sustainability, according to an article published April 23 in Radiology.
A team led by Kate Hanneman, MD, of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, proposed ways that departments can strategize to promote planetary health beyond turning imaging machines off when not in use. These include forming sustainability teams, opting for low-energy imaging tests when possible, and working with imaging vendors, among others.
“There are other opportunities to improve environmental sustainability that are beyond energy,” Hanneman told AuntMinnie.com. ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 23, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news
Exo launches cardiac, lung AI apps for Exo Iris
Exo’s cardiac and lung AI applications are now available on Exo Iris, its handheld ultrasound device.
The company released Exo Iris last year. The point-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS) device now features pulsed-wave Doppler capabilities to offer physicians more opportunities to assess blood velocity and thus support diagnosis and deeper findings in cardiac, abdominal, and vascular applications, according to the firm.
Exo has U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510k clearances for cardiac, lung, bladder, hip, and thyroid applications, and plans to double the number of clearances by 2025, it said. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 23, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Deep-learning algorithm improves liver fibrosis diagnosis
An algorithm combining the Fibrosis-4 Index (FIB-4) and an ultrasound deep-learning model could improve diagnostic accuracy and referral management for all-cause advanced liver fibrosis, a study published April 23 in Radiology found.
Researchers led by Li-Da Chen, PhD, from the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China found that their combined sequential algorithm improved specificity by over 20% for predicting pathologically advanced liver fibrosis compared with the Fibrosis-4 Index (FIB-4) alone. Additionally, the algorithm reduced unnecessary referrals by 42% without requiring access to l...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 23, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
