Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

Cutting-edge MRI method reveals persistent COVID-19 lung damage missed by routine CT

Hyperpolarized xenon MRI enables sensitive, regional investigation of breathing and gas transfer into the blood stream, according to a new study in Radiology

Thumbnail

Ultrasound imaging and AI combine to ‘revolutionize’ fetal heart defect diagnosis

Human providers typically spot as few as 30% of these conditions before birth, but a new machine learning model from UCSF bumped the rate up to 95%. 

Thumbnail

Digital pathology heavyweights Paige, Quest Diagnostics announce new AI cancer partnership

The pair will combine machine learning with digitized slide data to enhance diagnoses, initially focusing on prostate, breast, colorectal and lung cancers.

Thumbnail

‘Must be a more efficient way’: AI slashes turnaround times for radiology patient experience surveys

A data scientist at one Phoenix-area provider never anticipated he would enhance the customer experience after covering for a colleague vacationing in Thailand, he said at SIIM's Annual Meeting

fatty liver disease hepatic steatosis

Opportunistic screening for fatty liver disease on CT and ultrasound is feasible, experts say

Hepatic steatosis is a common incidental finding on abdominal imaging, but docs do not always denote it, despite its association with liver disease, cirrhosis and diabetes. 

Thumbnail

Adding PET imaging to prostate cancer treatment planning helps keep the disease under control

Patients who received a novel amino acid-based radiopharmaceutical showed better cancer control rates compared to those whose treatment was guided by bone scans, CT, or MRI alone.

Thumbnail

9 steps for successfully using CDS to decrease imaging utilization and join the value era

Noted imaging guru Christopher Roth, MD, MMCI, vice chair of Radiology for Clinical Informatics and IT at Duke University Medical Center, presented his roadmap during SIIM's Annual Meeting.

Thumbnail

SIIM21: AI flips through abdominal X-rays to spot IVC filters due for removal

Inferior vena cava filters are designed as a temporary solution for patients at acute risk of pulmonary embolism, yet many stay in place far longer than required.