Speech recognition has become a staple software category in radiology over the past three decades, and other medical specialties have adopted it as well. Yet efforts to assess the toolset’s applications and adaptations have been frustrated by the lack of a unified set of metrics.

Middle-aged smokers have smaller gray-matter volumes than their non-smoking peers, and the falloff is especially pronounced in the brains of smokers who also drink alcohol.

The Global Diagnostic Imaging Healthcare IT & Radiation Therapy Trade Association (DITTA) has published a new white paper on cybersecurity, providing medical technology manufacturers with a list of recommended best practices.

Flywheel, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based research informatics company, has announced a new partnership with Google Cloud to provide researchers an increased selection of solutions through its platform.

Royal Philips announced it has expanded its IntelliSpace Enterprise Edition, which combines Philips Radiology, Cardiology portfolios and PerformanceBridge, to now include the new IntelliSpace Precision Medicine Oncology, IntelliSpace Precision Medicine Genomics and IntelliSpace Exchange solutions. 

Researchers have demonstrated the use of natural language processing (NLP) to identify urinary-tract stones in positive radiology reports on CT scans of the kidneys, ureter and bladder. 

Fujifilm will showcase its enterprise imaging and informatics solutions at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) Global Conference.

“Integration of a scoring system into structured prostate MRI reports could be of great value to clinical research as well as routine clinical care...," wrote authors of a new study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology, which examined how background signal-intensity changes affect prostate cancer detection.