Tag: Imaging Devices
AI Offers Benefits for Initial Echocardiographic Assessment
AI provided superior assessment of cardiac function versus sonographers
Timely Ultrasound Can ID Undiagnosed Breech Presentations
Proportion of undiagnosed breech presentations at term decreased with routine third-trimester ultrasound or point-of-care ultrasound
Targeted Ultrasound Alone Found to Be Accurate Breast Imaging Modality
Ultrasound sensitivity and specificity were 98.5 and 90.8 percent among women aged 30 years or older with focal breast complaints
Parts of Duodenoscopes Can Break Off Inside Patients
Disposable parts were instituted because of previous concerns that the device is difficult to clean and may harbor bacteria
AI Has High Sensitivity for Abnormal Chest Radiographs
Potential autonomous reporting rate was 7.8 percent for all posteroanterior chest radiographs
AI Improves Detection of Actionable Lung Nodules on Chest Radiographs
Improvement observed in detection of actionable lung nodules with no increase in false-referral rates
NSCLC Survival Improved With FDG PET/CT Imaging Before Radiation Therapy
Despite NCCN guidelines recommending FDG PET/CT, 43.6 percent of patients were imaged with CT alone before subsequent radiation therapy
AI Analysis of Chest Radiographs Can Triage Acute Chest Pain Syndrome
Model including deep learning predictions significantly improved discrimination of the composite outcome
Role of ECHO Emphasized in Management of Rheumatic Heart Disease
Updated guidelines suggest all available modalities of echocardiography be used to obtain accurate anatomic, hemodynamic details of lesions
Bone Scintigraphy Can Help ID Cardiac Amyloidosis
Mortality, cardiovascular death, heart failure hospitalization were all independently predicted by 99mTc-DPD