Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

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Mass General team creates portable, low-cost brain MRI scanner

When tested on a handful of healthy participants, the modality produced 3D brain images in about 10 minutes.

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Neuroimaging ties anxiety to accelerated Alzheimer’s disease progression

Alzheimer's remains a leading cause of mortality in people over 65, with deaths more than doubling over the past two decades, radiologists explained recently.

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Emergency radiology vendor Avicenna.AI scores Medicare coverage for stroke CT assistant

The Paris, France-based firm joins a growing list of vendors to earn these new technology add-on payments from the feds.

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‘Inattentional blindness’ may cause radiologists to miss obvious abnormalities in diagnostic images

The problem persists across physicians of varying tenure, signaling that understanding the clinical situation may be more important than experience alone.

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ACR makes ‘major’ commitment to enhance radiologists’ access to generalizable AI

The college is testing its federated learning infrastructure across seven sites in hopes of creating a robust final model that reliably works across all settings.

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Radiology department’s 3D-printed nasal swabs for COVID-19 produce ‘overwhelmingly’ positive results

The University of South Florida Health has since printed more than 100,000 swabs.

Healthcare AI startup lands $42M plus a partnership with Mayo

A healthcare startup whose AI-powered symptom checker lets users check symptoms against other patients’ experiences has begun a partnership with Mayo Clinic and raised a fresh $42 million to advance its telehealth platform.  

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Hypertension, diabetes common in COVID-19 patients with life-threatening brain complications

“While complications in the brain are rare, they are an increasingly reported and potentially devastating consequence of COVID-19 infection," imaging experts warned.