The CEO and founder of the Silicon Valley-based imaging startup Openwater, Mary Lou Jepsen, PhD, is leading her company into making portable, miniature medical imaging devices that she hopes will disrupt the MRI market as a more affordable and accurate modality, according to an article published Nov. 13 by Business Insider.

Researchers from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, have developed a miniaturized version of a musical pipe organ, or a piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (PMUT), that could potentially improve the quality of medical images.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained with 20,000 labeled images can accurately classify chest x-rays as normal or abnormal, according to new findings published in Radiology. Training the CNN with an additional 180,000 images, the authors noted, only yielded “marginal” benefits.

Using ultrasound technology, researchers found simple ovarian cysts are not associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer and do not require additional surveillance or surgical intervention, according to research published Nov. 12 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Anthropomorphic breast ultrasound phantoms can be a useful tool for radiology resident education programs, according to new research published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Women who receive early and annual breast cancer screenings have lower mortality rates and benefit more from therapy at the time of diagnosis, according to new research published Nov. 8 in the journal Cancer.

David Shultz, MD, PhD, of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has been awarded the 2018 Hitachi Healthcare Americas /RSNA Research Seed Grant by the RSNA Research & Education (R&E) Foundation.

David Shultz, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Toronto, was awarded the 2018 Hitachi Healthcare Americas/RSNA Research Seed Grant by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Research & Education (R&E) Foundation and Hitatchi Healthcare, according to an October RSNA press release.