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. 

‘Revolutionary’ AI-powered digital pathology algorithm customizes cancer care.

Such a tool can have a variety of uses, from personalizing treatments to addressing workforce shortages.

$17.5K up for grabs in online blockchain hackathon with COVID in its sights

A blockchain startup headquartered in the British Virgin Islands is organizing a global, healthcare-specific online hackathon with a prize pool of 15,000 euros, or around $17,500.

NIH awards $15M grant for brain imaging, additional research into lupus

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, part of healthcare giant Northwell Health, hopes the funding can help the nearly 1.5 million Americans affected by this autoimmune disease.

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AI assesses cervical cancer disease spread, potentially sparing patients unnecessary surgery

Given that the disease is one of the most common cancers among women, these results may help personalize care plans and avoid invasive options for many struggling with treatment decisions, experts wrote in JAMA Network Open.

AI-based lung infection score triages COVID-19 patients, predicts near-term needs

Massachusetts General Hospital doctors say their automated pulmonary x-ray severity-scoring algorithm can help radiologists optimize pandemic workflows and manage critical resources, such as ventilators.

‘World’s smallest’ imaging device has large implications for cardio care

The 0.46 mm optical coherence endoscope can safely image the internal carotid artery and its branches, where most intracranial aneurysms begin, creators of the mechanism explained.

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Advanced MRI mapping spots traces of gadolinium in the brain invisible during conventional scanning

Radiologists from South Korea found tissue changes associated with repeated gadobutrol injections visible on quantitative susceptibility mapping, but not standard T1-weighted imaging.

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COVID-19 brain abnormalities on MRI in patients with neurological symptoms

There is growing evidence that, in addition to attacking patients’ lungs, the coronavirus also targets the central nervous system, with new research adding weight to this hypothesis.