A nonprofit healthcare-certification organization is challenging every user of medical ultrasound in the world to become proficient and certified in the modality by 2030.

Complex renal cysts or solid renal masses appear in 13% to 27% of individuals who receive abdominal imaging.

Men with prostate cancer can avoid many of the unpleasant side effects of chemo, surgery and radiation therapy when they are treated with high-intensity focused ultrasound instead.

Whole-body imaging reveals clinically undetectable blood clots in patients after their first dose of AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine.

Upon training a machine learning model to analyze ultrasound images of the neck, researchers tested their algorithm and have found it correctly flagged likely cancerous nodules of the thyroid gland at a 97% clip.

The study yielded a malignancy rate of 8.4% for the women who presented for routine pelvic ultrasound without prior suspicion for adnexal lesions.

Testing AI’s ability to detect carotid artery disease on ultrasound, U.K. researchers have found their algorithm achieved 90% accuracy, along with 87% sensitivity and 82% specificity, at the task.

The comprehensive approach may be warranted for patients whose musculoskeletal injuries include fractures of the costal cartilage.