POSTS TAGGED AS radiology

Radiomics

How artificial intelligence is driving changes in Radiology
“With the advent of AI came the emergence of radiomics, where digital images [MORE]

Artificial Intelligence Prediction of Osteoarthritis

An Automatic Method for Assessing Spiking of Tibial Tubercles Associated with Knee Osteoarthritis
“Tibial spiking has been hypothesized as a feature [MORE]

“Moly cow” Radiology

New production method promises to end medical radioisotope shortages
From the University of Tokyo:  “One of the most promising alternatives is [MORE]

Bedside MRI

Hyperfine point-of-care MRI
“Conventional MRI scanners need dedicated rooms with entry protocols, quench venting, and safety measures, and patients have to [MORE]

“Theranostic” Isotopes, Scandium 43 and 47

Creating ultra short lived medical isotopes
Several dozen radioisotopes are used in medicine for imaging and therapy.  Their value depends on [MORE]

Machine Reading of X-Ray Images

Algorithm Diagnoses Pneumonia Better Than Radiologists
The glucometer is one example of how a disruptive innovation can change medical practice, and [MORE]

“Atrial 4-D Flow CMR”

Cardiac Imaging
Besides the unsettling fear from an irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation increases a patient’s stroke risk. To gage that risk, [MORE]

An Automated “Radiologist” Named Avicenna

Avicenna Software
IBM is placing a big bet that computational medicine will be the fulcrum between the digital patient and the [MORE]

Cloud Imaging from GE

MRI
You might wonder if this piece is about how General Electric proposes to connect 500,000 of their imaging machines, or [MORE]

Automatically Defining Bone Structure in X-ray Images

Image from BoneFinder Software
Centenarians may be the healthiest of all age groups (having lived through the cardiovascular and cancer diseases [MORE]

Diffuse Optical Tomography

Digital Optical Scanner (DOT)
“Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a new brain scanning technology developed by a team at the [MORE]

X-ray Imaging of Soft Tissue

Nanostructured Xray of Soft Tissue
X-ray machines require contrasting agents to image soft tissue, but engineers from MIT and Mass [MORE]

“Tissue Fingerprinting” with MRI

“Each body tissue and disease has a unique fingerprint that can be used to quickly diagnose problems” with an [MORE]

“Alpha Emitters” in Gold Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy

Radiation therapy for cancer can be a tradeoff between beneficial damage to tumors and harmful damage to healthy tissue.  [MORE]