CT shows effects of sarcopenia on liver cancer survival
CT has revealed that sarcopenia is a prognostic factor for poor overall survival after liver resection for cancer, researchers have reported.
Five-year overall survival was significantly lower in sarcopenic patients than in those without the condition, at 58.2% and 83.6%, respectively, a team led by Thanatchawan Polvieng, MD, of Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, reported. The results were published March 22 in American Surgeon.
"Major postoperative complications were more frequent in sarcopenia," the group noted.
Polvieng and colleagues conducted a study that explored the prognostic impact of sarcopenia (i....
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 22, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Abdominal Imaging Source Type: news
Can ChatGPT-4 accurately interpret thyroid, renal ultrasound images?
ChatGPT-4 demonstrated high accuracy in analyzing and interpreting thyroid and renal ultrasound images in a small study published March 19 in Radiology Advances.
Researchers led by Laith Sultan, MD, from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia reported that the large language model could accurately perform image segmentation and classify lesions on ultrasound as normal or abnormal.
“These functionalities indicate the tool's potential to improve radiological workflows by pre-screening and categorizing ultrasound images,” Sultan told AuntMinnie.com. “This technology, if implemented in clinical practice, will have great...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 22, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties Ultrasound Advanced Visualization Genitourinary Radiology Head and Neck Radiology Source Type: news
ChatGPT-4 accurately interprets thyroid, renal ultrasound images
ChatGPT-4 demonstrated high accuracy in analyzing and interpreting thyroid and renal ultrasound images in a study published March 19 in Radiology Advances.
Researchers led by Laith Sultan, MD, from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia reported that the large language model could accurately perform image segmentation and classify lesions on ultrasound as normal or abnormal.
“These functionalities indicate the tool's potential to improve radiological workflows by pre-screening and categorizing ultrasound images,” Sultan told AuntMinnie.com. “This technology, if implemented in clinical practice, will have great poten...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 22, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties Ultrasound Advanced Visualization Genitourinary Radiology Head and Neck Radiology Source Type: news
Siemens Healthineers' Ciartic Move gets FDA clearance
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Siemens Healthineers' Ciartic Move, a mobile C-arm with self-driving capabilities.
The company said the system standardizes 2D fluoroscopic and 3D cone-beam CT imaging for surgeons and operating room teams in hospitals and outpatient facilities. Ciartic Move is designed to address the needs of orthopedic, trauma, and spine surgery. It can be used in thoracic, vascular, cardiovascular, and general surgery, as well as urology and interventional pulmonology.Ciartic Move. Image courtesy of Siemens Healthineers.
The system is fully motorized from the C-arm down to its wh...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Blackford, Radiobotics enter commercial partnership
Blackford and Radiobotics are entering a commercial partnership to bring RBfracture and RBknee to healthcare professionals via the Blackford Platform.
Blackford provides healthcare professionals access to a portfolio of more than 125 AI products designed to drive clinical accuracy and efficiency and improve patient outcomes. Blackford said by integrating Radiobotics’s advanced technology into the Blackford Platform, the company can offer healthcare providers more powerful tools to automate fracture detection on x-ray images and analyzing knee x-rays for osteoarthritis.
RBfracture, a clinical decision-support tool, uses...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
PocketHealth Raises $33M in Series B funding
PocketHealth has raised $33 million in Series B funding, which will go toward continuing to improve how medical images are shared, using AI to personalize the patient’s care journey, and growing the company's reach across the U.S. and Canada.
The all-equity round was led by Round13 Capital with participation from Deloitte Ventures, Samsung Next, and existing investors Questa Capital and Radical Ventures.
The company added that to support its goals, it plans to double its workforce over the next two years.
PocketHealth allows customers to instantly share images with anyone across any network, as well as set up a local ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
US Radiology appoints new CEO
Lee Cooper. Image courtesy of US Radiology Specialists.U.S. Radiology Specialists has appointed Lee Cooper as the company's new CEO, while current board member Molly Joseph will become its next board chair, effective April 1.
Cooper and Joseph will succeed John Perkins, the company's founding CEO, who announced in 2023 his intent to move on from his roles as board chair and CEO.
Cooper previously worked for nearly 30 years at GE HealthCare, where he led several business units before ending his tenure as president and CEO of GE HealthCare (GEHC) in the U.S. and Canada. There, he was responsible for the core business...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: People in the News Source Type: news
Pembrolizumab With Chemoradiotherapy for Cervical Cancer Pembrolizumab With Chemoradiotherapy for Cervical Cancer
Dr Maurie Markman discusses a recent FDA approval for locally advanced cervical cancer.Medscape Oncology (Source: Medscape Radiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Radiology Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Tags: Hematology-Oncology Commentary Source Type: news
XPlan.ai touts study evaluating x-ray based 3D model
RSIP Vision spinoff XPlan.ai is highlighting a new milestone for its x-ray-based 3D bone modeling system with the publication of a peer-reviewed clinical study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.The study, led by a consortium of orthopedic surgeons, found that XPlan.ai offers a promising alternative to conventional CT scans. XPlan.ai uses AI to produce 3D bone models from two standard x-ray images. Together with XPlan's automated planning technologies, this model can be used for surgical planning and navigation during orthopedic procedures such as total knee replacement.The company highlighted that the accurac...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Powering down idle IR systems can reduce environmental impact
Powering down idle interventional radiology (IR) imaging systems can substantially decrease carbon emissions and electricity costs, according to a group of researchers at University Hospital Basel in Switzerland.The team estimated that annual energy consumption for seven imaging systems at their hospital was comparable to the energy use of 23 four-person households (115,684 kilowatt hours [kWh]) and that energy consumption during nonproductive work accounted for most of the total.“Powering down idle-running interventional imaging systems outside of procedure times has substantial environmental sustainability benefits,”...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Practice Management Interventional Radiology Clinical News Digital X-Ray Source Type: news
PACS industry veteran returns to launch cloud workflow platform
If you’ve been around the PACS industry for a while, you’ll undoubtedly remember DR Systems, a vendor that launched in the early years of PACS and carved out a niche as an independent firm for over two decades.
Its founder, Murray Reicher, MD, has now returned to the market with the launch of Synthesis Health, a radiology workflow platform developer.
Reicher and colleagues believe their platform’s cloud-native architecture offers a compelling value proposition to radiology practices seeking streamlined workflow and greater efficiency. The Synthesis platform features several modules, including a workflow and repor...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Erik L. Ridley Tags: Imaging Informatics Enterprise Imaging Source Type: news
MRI/ultrasound combination effective for treating prostate cancer
A new, minimally invasive procedure that combines MRI and transurethral ultrasound is effective for treating prostate cancer, according to research presented March 20 at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) meeting in Salt Lake City.
A team led by Steven Raman, MD, of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that the treatment -- dubbed MRI-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation (TULSA) and performed by interventional radiologists -- proved a viable alternative to surgery or radiation, showing a recovered continence rate of 92% at five-year follow-up.
"This image-...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Interventional MRI Ultrasound Genitourinary Radiology Source Type: news
Mercedes-Benz employs x-ray technology in crash tests
Mercedes-Benz said it has performed the world's first crash test with a real car using x-ray imaging technology.
“This technology demonstration (proof of concept) at the EMI research crash facility in Freiburg has shown that high-speed x-ray technology can be used to visualize highly dynamic internal deformation processes,” the company noted, on its website.
On board was one SID II dummy on the left-hand side facing the impact. This is a test specimen with a female anatomy, specially designed for side impact tests, the company said.
The technology has been in development for several years, with a recent breakthroug...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Industry News Digital X-Ray Source Type: news
PET/MRI findings ‘encouraging’ for people with late-life depression
PET/MRI scans have revealed positive findings for people with late-life depression – namely that they have preserved “synaptic density" and thus are likely to respond to treatment, according to a group in Belgium.
Neuroscientists at the Leuven Brain Institute used hybrid brain imaging to explore connections between synaptic density (on PET) and gray-matter volume (on MRI) for the first time in a group of depressed patients, with a link between the two thought to be involved in neurodegenerative diseases.
“In contrast to Alzheimer’s disease, lower gray matter volume in late-life depression is not associated with s...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: MRI Source Type: news
Protocols, resources can reduce CT use in child appendectomy patients
Developing protocols and having resources available are a couple of ways hospitals can limit radiation exposure from CT imaging to children who have undergone appendectomies, suggest findings published March 20 in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery.
A team led by Peter Juviler, MD, from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York described shared qualities among hospitals with low CT use and strategies for decreasing postoperative CT imaging for children with complicated appendicitis -- strategies that involve interdisciplinary collaboration and the promotion of radiation stewardship.
“In the evaluation and ma...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 20, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Practice Management Subspecialties Administration Genitourinary Radiology Pediatric Radiology Source Type: news
