More than 40% of Americans are generally OK with the thought of AI reading their chest x-rays. Moreover, some 12.3% are very comfortable with the prospect.

The interventional radiology practice of an academic medical center has identified four challenges to securing informed consent from patients or their medical decision-makers. 

"Inattention blindness bias" causes radiologists to unintentionally overlook what could be considered an obvious or significant finding.

Some 81% of the models—70 of 86 DL algorithms reported in 83 separate studies—diminished at least somewhat in diagnostic accuracy compared with their accuracy on internal datasets.

Radiologists have developed an abdominal x-ray protocol that quantifies patient “thickness” to yield images of high quality while reducing radiation dose by 80%.

A new study found that while the absolute number of imaging studies performed in 2016 was twice the number of studies performed in 2004, the increase is attributable to a doubling in the number of active patients.

Video reports could play an important role in increasing radiologists’ roles in patient-centered care, experts have suggested. 

Researchers have found the condition significantly less among patients who received at least two doses of a COVID vaccine.