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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CT model offers ventilation insights into ‘relatively unknown’ lung regions

Researchers found measurements performed with their full-scale airway network flow model based on CT imaging data compared similarly to measurements derived from functional lung imaging. In addition to improving COPD analysis, the platform can help shed light on many forms of lung disease.

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AI performs similarly to PI-RADS

Deep learning offers similar detection of prostate cancer on MRI compared to prostate imaging reporting and data system (PI-RADS) assessments, according to new research out of Germany.

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Brain scans may help predict suicide risk

Differences in brain circuitry may indicate an individual’s risk for suicide, according to a recent fMRI-based study published in Psychological Medicine.

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Need a hand? ABB brings new laboratory robot to Texas Medical Center

ABB, an international technology company, has opened its first global healthcare research hub in Houston, Texas, to demonstrate some of its robotic solutions.

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UCSF pilots new center to accelerate AI in radiology

“The Center for Intelligent Imaging will serve as a hub for the multidisciplinary development of AI in imaging to meet unmet clinical needs and provide a platform to measure impact and outcomes of this technology,” said Christopher Hess, MD, PhD, chair of the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging.

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Brain imaging debunks traditional theory about dyslexia

New research utilizing functional MRI (fMRI) has cast doubts on a commonly believed theory about dyslexia, potentially paving the way for new approaches to the learning disorder.

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AI helps bust stroke, identify occlusions

Applied to head CT images, AI software can help speed diagnosis of ischemic stroke while also localizing large vessel occlusions when the latter are a culprit, according to a systematic review of studies published over a five-year period ending in February.

4D MRI virtual catheter automatically evaluates aortic flow

A newly created four-dimensional virtual catheter technique allows for reproducible, automated estimation of blood flow in patients with congenital bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), reported authors of an Oct. 8 study published in Radiology.