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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Researchers use AI to improve on traditional PET imaging methods

Researchers have developed a new technique, DeepPET, that uses deep learning to turn PET imaging data into high-quality images at a much faster rate than traditional methods. 

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AI improves radiologists’ cancer detection rates when reading mammograms

Artificial intelligence-based computer-aided detection (AI-CAD) software can help radiologists detect more cancers when interpreting mammograms, according to a new study published in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

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Researchers ID new biomarkers of ‘chemobrain’

"Our findings suggest that patients with higher prechemotherapy DHEAS levels had lower odds of developing self-perceived cognitive impairment,” wrote authors of a study published in Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy.

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MRI study: Is obesity linked to faster cognitive decline, dementia?

"The global obesity pandemic has not only led to a greater incidence of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, but has also coincided with a rise in brain diseases, such as accelerated cognitive decline and dementia,” wrote authors of an April 23 study published in Radiology.

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Deep learning predicts lung cancer mortality better than clinical model

“Our research demonstrates that deep-learning models integrating routine imaging scans obtained at multiple time points can improve predictions of survival and cancer-specific outcomes for lung cancer," wrote Hugo Aerts, PhD, in a recent study published in Clinical Cancer Research.

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Why radiologists won’t be replaced by deep learning

As researchers continue to make significant advances with artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning, has the time come for radiologists to be concerned about their jobs?

GE Healthcare’s deep learning-based image reconstruction engine gains FDA clearance

GE Healthcare’s Deep Learning Image Reconstruction (DLIR) engine, designed to be used with its Revolution Apex CT solution, has gained FDA clearance.

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Can crowd-sourcing AI algorithms work in radiation oncology?

The supply of radiation oncologists hasn’t kept up with the global demand for radiation therapy. But could experts from across the world help create an AI algorithm capable of closing that gap?