Researchers in Europe have developed an open-source, ready-to-use radiomics calculator based on a burgeoning international standard for radiologists looking to quantify tumor characteristics on CT at the level of molecular biomarkers.   

If some form of practice consolidation is in your radiology practice’s present or future, you should know that many tactical errors are made around the difficulty of sharing information across disparate legacy PACS packages and other peripheral solutions used by newly conjoining practices, departments or organizations. 

RBJ asked for—and received—in-depth answers to six high-level questions about data analytics. What all these Q&A sets have in common is the supplying of a fresh insight or two (or three) into tapping data for its power to prove value and bolster the bottom line.

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.

Electronic medical records (EMRs) contain mounds of valuable, but unformatted information making it difficult to use as a source for research, wrote first author, Changhwan Lee, with Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, and colleagues.  AI may be able to solve that problem.