Discover radiology's roots at the German Roentgen Museum
I recently visited Lennep, 50 km west of Düsseldorf in Germany, for the symposium of the International Society for the History of Radiology (ISHRAD), which was held at the Deutsches Röntgen Museum (DRM). I had a great time, not the least when we were exploring the cafés, restaurants, and shops in the picturesque old town.Remscheid-Lennep is the birthplace of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who discovered x-rays in 1895, and the museum should be visited at least once by anyone at all interested in x-rays and radiology. Over the last couple of decades, the DRM has been transformed by its dynamic director Uwe Busch, PhD, and his ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 18, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Dr. Adrian Thomas Tags: Digital X-Ray Source Type: news
American Association of Orthodontists Issues Guidance to SmileDirectClub Patients Following Abrupt Closure Offers Warning about Mail-Order Orthodontics
T. LOUIS, Dec. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) is offering guidance to patients impacted by the recent closure of SmileDirectClub and patients being approached by other " mail-order " teeth straightening companies. Given SmileDirectClub ' s abrupt shut down, patients have been left with questions and concerns about their ongoing orthodontic treatment." The best thing SmileDirectClub patients can do at this point is to book an in-person exam with a licensed orthodontist in their area, " said Myron Guymon, DDS, MS, President of the AAO. " Most SmileDirectClub patie...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - December 15, 2023 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
AuntMinnie.com X-Ray Insider
Dear Digital X-Ray Insider,RSNA 2023 wrapped up in Chicago recently, with a bevy of digital x-ray studies presented at the meeting. We’ve featured one more here: an AI study conducted in Zambia testing an algorithm developed by Google to detect tuberculosis on chest x-rays. The model performed well, and you can read about the study in this issue’s featured article. As expected, AI studies took most of the top headlines from RSNA 2023. The mood at the meeting may have been summed up most succinctly by Sean Raj, MD, of outpatient radiology group SimonMed Imaging: “We’re going all in on AI,” he said, in a presentat...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 14, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Digital X-Ray Source Type: news
AI shows promise detecting TB in Zambia
In this study, the researchers evaluated Google AI TB in adults who had symptoms suggestive of TB, who were close contacts of TB patients, or who were newly diagnosed with HIV. They enrolled 1,932 patients at three clinical sites. Of the 1,807 patients with a definitive TB status, 641 (35%) were HIV positive and 190 (11%) were TB positive.The TB AI’s scores were calculated using two prespecified operating points (OP): a high sensitivity OP based on the WHO target product profile (90% sensitivity/70% specificity) and a more balanced OP designed to resemble an average radiologist’s performance (90% sensitivity/50% specif...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 14, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Artificial Intelligence Chest Radiology Subspecialties Source Type: news
AI improves x-ray reads for rads with varying experience
AI assistance can improve the detection accuracy of thoracic abnormalities on chest x-rays across radiologists with varying levels of expertise, according to a study published December 12 in Radiology. In a retrospective study, a commercially available algorithm (ChestView, v. 1.2.0, Gleamer) increased sensitivity for detecting all abnormalities on x-rays for all readers (thoracic radiologists, general radiologists, and radiology residents), according to a group of Gleamer consultants and clinicians at Cochin Hospital in Paris.“Our findings suggest that artificial intelligence assistance in chest radiograph interpretatio...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 13, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties Digital X-Ray Chest Radiology Source Type: news
Can ‘normal filtering’ AI save radiologists time?
AI algorithms appear to have clinical value based on detecting normal x-rays – that is, by flagging chest x-rays as normal versus abnormal, they may reduce reading times for radiologists, according to research presented recently at the RSNA meeting in Chicago.
In a session on chest imaging, scientists from AI developers Lunit and DeepTek.ai presented separate studies of AI algorithms configured to segregate patient chest x-ray images into those with significant clinical findings and those considered normal. In both cases, the algorithms ruled out a potentially significant number of reads.
“Actually, what we want to...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 11, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties Chest Radiology Source Type: news
Can open-source AI algorithms help clinical deployment?
A group in the U.K. has developed neural networks for interpreting chest x-rays that could help speed the adoption of AI systems in clinical settings, according to a study published December 8 in The Lancet Digital Health. In a retrospective cohort study, the researchers developed X-Raydar-NLP (natural language processing) and X-Raydar, deep neural networks that can accurately classify 37 common chest x-ray findings from images and their free-text reports. Moreover, they have made the neural networks available to others.“By making our model freely available, we hope to accelerate the adoption of automated systems in cli...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 11, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties Chest Radiology Source Type: news
Don't get burned: Expert tips and tricks on MRI safety
How can MRI staff reduce the impact of radiofrequency-induced heating? Are tattoos and implantable medical devices safe? How can quenching be avoided? What are the special risks in 7-tesla MRI? A prize-winning RSNA 2023 exhibit addressed these and other questions.
"While we are familiar with medical safety and ethics principles when errors occur, the culture of blaming parties is still prevalent," noted Ana Paula Santos Lima, MD, assistant professor of radiology at the University of Washington, and colleagues. "Everyone makes mistakes; it's crucial to minimize risks. It's not always direct staff at fault."
System-wide vu...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 11, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Philip Ward Tags: MRI Source Type: news
Bering gets FDA nod for AI chest x-ray software
London-based medical AI company Bering Limited has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its BraveCX AI-powered chest x-ray triage software.
BraveCX is a computer-assisted triage and notification software that analyzes adult (≥ 18 years old) chest x-rays for the presence of prespecified suspected findings. The product was developed on over 1 million chest x-rays and has yielded an area under the curve of 0.96 for pleural effusion and 0.98 for pneumothorax in testing, the company said. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 6, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Discover radiology's roots at the German Roentgen Museum
I recently visited Lennep, 50 km west of Düsseldorf in Germany, for the symposium of the International Society for the History of Radiology (ISHRAD), which was held at the Deutsches Röntgen Museum (DRM). I had a great time, not the least when we were exploring the cafés, restaurants, and shops in the picturesque old town.
Remscheid-Lennep is the birthplace of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who discovered x-rays in 1895, and the museum should be visited at least once by anyone at all interested in x-rays and radiology. Over the last couple of decades, the DRM has been transformed by its dynamic director Uwe Busch, PhD, and hi...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 6, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Dr. Adrian Thomas Tags: Digital X-Ray Source Type: news
With an Old X-Ray, AI Can Detect High Risk of Lung Cancer in Never Smokers
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm successfully identified never smokers at high risk for lung cancer using existing x-rays in the electronic medical record (EMR), a researcher reported here.
Among a cohort... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - November 30, 2023 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
Video from RSNA 2023: Rural radiology and x-rays on Everest
In an RSNA 2023 video interview, Saurabh Jha, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia discusses sessions on rural radiology issues and a recent initiative to bring x-ray exams to Mt. Everest. He also announces a new podcast partnership with AuntMinnie.com. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 29, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Erik L. Ridley Tags: RSNA 2023 Source Type: news
AI assist for x-ray reads serves nonradiologists well in the ED
CHICAGO -- German researchers are testing ways to support nonradiologists in interpreting chest x-rays in emergency settings using an AI assistant.Presenting the research on November 28 at RSNA 2023, Jan Rudolph, MD, from the department of radiology at University Hospital LMU Munich said nonradiologists can significantly benefit from AI assistance in emergency-related chest x-ray analysis.“If you go to the periphery, to smaller hospitals in the periphery, there's basically the duty doctors from internal medicine or surgery departments that have to analyze the chest x-rays,” Rudolph explained. “So we were thinking and...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 29, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: Digital X-Ray Artificial Intelligence RSNA 2023 Source Type: news
AI model helps plan hip replacements
In this study, Rouzrokh and colleagues hypothesized that THA-Net would produce images as valid and realistic as actual x-rays, while requiring little to no input from surgeons. The model was trained on 356,305 x-rays from 14,357 patients who underwent procedures between 2020 and 2022.THA-Net utilizes a pretrained YOLO (you only look once) model to crop the hip joint from an input preoperative pelvis x-ray and then employs a classifier-free conditional diffusion model for inpainting THA implants and generating realistic postoperative x-rays. In addition, the diffusion model was designed to offer two modes, an automated mode...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 28, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: RSNA 2023 Musculoskeletal Radiology Source Type: news
AI cuts time for radiologists reporting fractures on x-rays
CHICAGO -- A commercially available AI algorithm that can prioritize x-ray exams when it detects fractures yields “tremendous reductions” in report turnaround times, according to a study presented November 28 at RSNA. Sean Raj, MD, discussed a pilot study led by outpatient radiology group SimonMed Imaging that evaluated Rayvolve by AZmed on turnaround time (TAT) for fracture detection. Based on the pilot study, the group plans to fully implement the software by the end of the year, Raj noted. “We can definitely say that Rayvolve improves patient care and improved our turnaround time,” said Raj, of UT Southwestern ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 28, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Digital X-Ray Musculoskeletal Radiology RSNA 2023 Source Type: news
