Lunit inks two European supply contracts
Lunit has inked two European contracts to provide AI-driven software for chest x-ray and breast imaging. The company has secured a supply contract with TeleDiag in France and the Portuguese League Against Cancer, it said. TeleDiag is France's largest teleradiology group; it will use Lunit's Insight CXR, Lunit said. The Portuguese League Against Cancer will use Lunit's Insight MMG to analyze 100,000 mammograms each year over the next three, according to the firm. The new contracts follow two Lunit signed last week with distributors in East and Southeast Asia. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news

Medic Vision secures distribution contract with Mumbai, India firm
Medic Vision Imaging Solutions has inked a distribution contract for its AI-driven MRI image enhancement software with a Mumbai, India-based company. Equipment supplier Akarui Solutions will distribute Medic Vision's iQMR software, which speeds MRI scans by 40%, according to the firm. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news

Siemens Healthineers develops cinematic reality app
Siemens Healthineers has developed a cinematic reality app that enables "realistic renderings of human anatomy," it said. The company's Cinematic Reality app is designed for Apple Vision Pro and allows users to view interactive holograms of the human body taken from medical scans, according to the firm. It could help with surgical planning and medical and patient education, Siemens noted. Siemens highlighted the app at the recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando. It is a prototype and not yet available for commercial use. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Imaging Informatics Industry News Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news

Training technique in AI helps preserve patient privacy
The privacy of patient data in AI models trained on chest x-rays can be guaranteed – importantly, without significantly reducing the accuracy of models on large “real-world” data sets, according to a study published March 14 in Communications Medicine. A team in Germany used an approach called “differential privacy” when training large-scale AI models and then evaluated its effects on model performance. They found high accuracy was attainable, despite the stringent privacy guarantees, noted lead authors and PhD students Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh, of University Hospital RWTH Aachen, and Alexander Ziller, of the Tech...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: CT Digital X-Ray Source Type: news

Radiology retains popularity in 2024 Main Residency Match
Although falling just short of the 100% rate achieved in the last two years, nearly all available resident positions for diagnostic and interventional radiology were filled on Match Day 2024 on March 15. In announcing the results of the 2024 Main Residency Match, the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) noted that interventional radiology-integrated had the fifth-highest percentage (91.4%) among positions filled with U.S. MD and DO seniors. .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; overflow:hidden;pa...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Radiology Education Source Type: news

MedPAC recommends 2024 MPFS payment increase of 1.5%
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has released its March report to Congress, which recommends that Congress increase the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) by 1.5% for 2024. "MedPAC’s payment update recommendations, which we are required by law to submit each year, are based on an assessment of payment adequacy for each provider type that examines beneficiaries' access to and use of care, the quality of the care they receive, the supply of providers and their access to capital, and providers' costs and Medicare's payments," it said. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news

Image perception: Are radiologists akin to MLB batters?
A radiologist’s perception when viewing a complex MR image may be akin to a Major League Baseball (MLB) batter reading the stitches on a fastball, according to researchers exploring exactly how diagnostic interpretations are made. The baseball metaphor works because eye-tracking studies have shown that radiologists are able to discriminate between normal and abnormal stacks of 26 T2-weighted images from prostate MRI in as little as 48 milliseconds per section, said neuroscientist Robert Alexander, MD, of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, in an interview with AuntMinnie.com. Similarly, expert batter...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Advanced Visualization Source Type: news

Komen talks SCREENS for Cancer Act with AuntMinnie.com
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee recently passed the Screening for Communities to Receive Early and Equitable Needed Services (SCREENS) for Cancer Act. Approved by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in December 2023, the legislation now awaits approval by the full U.S. Senate and House, along with President Joe Biden's signature, to become law. Valerie Nelson, Manager of Federal Policy & Advocacy at Susan G. Komen, spoke with AuntMinnie.com about the act and its goals. Komen recently issued a statement applauding the passing of the act by the subcommittee. (Source:...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties Breast Imaging Source Type: news

Image perception: Are radiologists akin to MLB batters?
A radiologist’s perception when viewing a complex MR image may be akin to a Major League Baseball (MLB) batter reading the stitches on a fastball, according to researchers exploring exactly how diagnostic interpretations are made. The baseball metaphor works because eye-tracking studies have shown that radiologists are able to discriminate between normal and abnormal stacks of 26 T2-weighted images from prostate MRI in as little as 48 milliseconds per section, said neuroscientist Robert Alexander, MD, of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, in an interview with AuntMinnie.com. Similarly, expert batter...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Advanced Visualization Source Type: news

MRI shows effects of high blood pressure on the brain
High blood pressure has a negative effect on the brain's white matter -- and not just in older adults but in younger ones as well, researchers have reported. A study conducted by a team led by Junyeon Won, PhD, of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas found that diffusion-weighted MRI brain white matter metrics showed a connection between hypertension and white matter abnormalities. Their results were published March 15 in Hypertension. "[We found that] high blood pressure and high hypertension stage were associated with [diffusion-weighted MRI white matter brain characteristics]," the group wrote. High blood pre...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News Subspecialties MRI Neuroradiology Source Type: news

GE Healthcare, Hartford HealthCare extend Care Alliance agreement
GE HealthCare (GEHC) and Connecticut-based Hartford HealthCare have extended their "Care Alliance" collaboration through 2030. Under the collaboration, Hartford HealthCare will upgrade its imaging technology using a phased approach for the acquisition, deployment, and redeployment of CT, PET/CT, MRI, x-ray, nuclear medicine, mammography, ultrasound, and OEC 3D surgical imaging C-arm systems, according to GEHC. Many of the new systems in the collaborative effort will include tested AI and machine-learning software, and patient monitoring, anesthesia, maternal infant care, and diagnostic cardiology technologies are also in...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Installations Source Type: news

Calcifications on mammo could identify women at risk of CVD
Detecting breast arterial calcifications on routine mammograms could identify women at a higher risk of future cardiovascular disease (CVD), a study published March 13 in Clinical Imaging found. Researchers led by Shadi Azam, PhD, from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York found links between such calcifications and older age, diabetes, parity, younger age at first birth, and hypertension in women who underwent both screening mammography and cardiac CT angiography (CCTA). “Additionally, we found that when neither breast arterial calcifications nor coronary arterial calcifications were present, the estimated 10-year risk o...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Womens Imaging Source Type: news

FAPI-PET/CT outperforms FDG-PET/CT in women with invasive breast cancer
This study underscores Ga-68 FAPI-PET/CT’s superiority over F-18 FDG-PET/CT for ILC,” the group concluded. A link to the full study can be found here. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Breast Source Type: news

Volpara to highlight Miss. health system project at NCBC
Volpara Health Technologies will feature its latest software for breast density, evaluating cancer risk, and mammography quality with Lunit's Insight AI software for early cancer detection at the 2024 National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC) conference in Las Vegas. During a special session on Tuesday, March 19, Tami Hudson, breast health navigator at Singing River Health System in Mississippi will share the clinical impact of making cancer risk assessment standard for every patient receiving a mammogram at four breast centers. Singing River has used Volpara's Risk Pathways cancer risk assessment software to identify ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Imaging Informatics Breast Imaging Subspecialties Industry News Source Type: news

Groups aim to standardize nuclear medicine imaging of CV infections
Eleven medical associations have released guidance on the use of PET/CT and SPECT/CT for patients with cardiovascular (CV) infections. The recommendations could improve patient care, as current clinical tools are often insufficient in complicated cases, noted lead author of the guidance Jamieson Bourque, MD, of the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. The document was published jointly March 11 in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, the Heart Rhythm Journal, and JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. “The stakes are high with cardiovascular infection because the incidence is incr...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Source Type: news