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Australia calls for sonography regulator
Concerns about patients receiving incorrect or missed diagnoses due to poorly performed ultrasounds have prompted calls for Australian sonographers to be brought under the...
Chest CT findings in COVID-19 pneumonia — multicentre study
A multi-centre study (n=101) of the relationship between chest CT findings and the clinical conditions of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia determined that most patients...
AI system accurately detects key findings in chest X-rays of pneumonia patients within 10 seconds
Researchers from Intermountain Healthcare and Stanford University say 10 seconds is about how quickly it took a new system they studied that utilizes artificial...
Study finds vaping just once leads to reduced vascular function
Vaping has been marketed as a safe alternative to tobacco cigarettes. However, a single e-cigarette can be harmful to the body’s blood vessels – even when...
Low risk for people with tattoos undergoing MRI
A German study found that in 330 persons who had one to seven tattoos, only one mild tattoo-related adverse reaction was detected during magnetic...
NIH makes DeepLesion dataset of CT images publicly available
The National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Centre has made a large-scale dataset of CT images publicly available to help the scientific community improve detection...
New software detects on a CT one of the commonest causes of stroke
Machine learning has detected one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke, in the most widely used form of brain scan (CT), more...
Concern over diagnostic low-dose radiation exposure challenged – study
The long-held belief that even low doses of radiation, such as those received in diagnostic imaging, increase cancer risk is based on an inaccurate,...
Early imaging not linked with better outcomes
Older adults who had spine imaging within six weeks of a primary care visit for back pain had pain and disability over the following year that was no different from similar patients who did not, contradicting many guidelines.