Clinical Research

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Engineers team with cardiologist to rethink heart pump assessments

The group’s work is focused on how signal processing technologies and machine learning can track the health of VADs and the patients who need them. 

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has helped cardiologists, radiologists, nurses and other healthcare providers embrace precision medicine in a way that ensures more heart patients are receiving personalized care.

AI uses imaging results to ID high-risk TAVR patients with speed, accuracy

Researchers developed an advanced AI model capable of extracting measurements from unprocessed CT images in seconds. It then uses those data to evaluate the patient's mortality risk if they underwent TAVR.

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Wake Forest receives $1.5 million to fund imaging study aimed at bone loss after bariatric surgery

The funding will go toward the Strategies to Reduce the Onset of Sleeve Gastrectomy Associated Bone Loss (STRONG BONES) trial.

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Radiology's role in colorectal cancer care set to grow following 'groundbreaking' trial results

The results were so conclusive that the trial was halted at halftime for having met predefined stopping rules. 

Lung cancer screening CT image in a 66-year-old male patient shows a sessile nodule with internal air in the left mainstem to left upper lobe bronchus (arrow) with a mean diameter of 10 mm. The nodule was assigned as Lung-RADS category 4A in the clinical report. (B) Follow-up CT image shows the lesion is resolved. Image courtesy of RSNA

Lung-RADS update helps limit false-positive results, unnecessary procedures

Using the latest version was associated with improved diagnostic accuracy, researchers wrote in a new analysis. 

Comparison of a 2D digital mammogram and breast tomosynthesis 3D mammography from UCSF.

DBT exams take twice as long to read as 2D mammograms, but the learning curve is short

Although DBT exams are proven to identify more difficult to detect cancers, especially among women with dense breasts, they also include significantly more images than standard 2D mammograms. 

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Light therapy improves brain connectivity after head trauma, MRI study shows

In the study, patients who underwent light therapy showed improved connectivity between seven brain region pairs.

Video interview with Devi Nair, MD, who shares her experience of using the Sphere-9 PFA system in the FDA IDE late-breaking trial at HRS24. #HRS #PFA #HRS2024

All-in-one PFA system linked to positive safety profile, faster procedures

Devi Nair, MD, director of cardiac electrophysiology with St. Bernard's Heart and Vascular Center, discussed her experience using a new-look Medtronic pulsed field ablation (PFA) system to treat persistent AFib.