New study shows how AI boosts radiologist perception training
November 1, 2023 -- A Norwegian-led team has launched a novel web application to help radiology trainees gain skills in detecting lung nodules on chest x-rays. The authors have described how to use it in an article published on 24 October in the British Journal of Radiology. Read More
Busted: Irish use mobile x-ray to expose crimes of drug smugglers
October 31, 2023 -- Customs and excise officials in Ireland have used a mobile container scanner to seize around 5.5 kg of cocaine with an estimated street value of 385,000 euros at Rosslare Europort. A man in his 30s was arrested by police on 27 October and taken to a Garda Station in County Wexford. Read More
Ultralow-dose chest CT proves far superior to x-ray in emergencies
October 20, 2023 -- In non-traumatic emergency room patients, ultralow-dose chest CT offers more than twice the detection rate for main diagnoses compared to chest x-ray, scientists from the Medical University of Vienna have found. Read More
Secondhand smoke raises osteoporosis risk in women
October 18, 2023 -- Passive and active smoking may be equivalent risk factors for osteoporosis in women, according to Italian researchers. They found women exposed to environmental tobacco smoke had similar rates of the disease as those who actively smoked. Read More
Antoine Béclère and the origins of French radiology
October 11, 2023 -- Antoine Béclère is one of the greats of radiology. At his own expense, he opened France's first department of radiology in 1897, and he was president of the third International Congress of Radiology, held in Paris in 1931, writes our history columnist Dr. Adrian Thomas. Read More
Study supports use of transformer models to aid image interpretations
October 5, 2023 -- An emerging and relatively new class of AI appears to be moving the technology closer to what radiologists are capable of when they interpret chest x-rays, authors from Aachen University Hospital in Germany have found. Read More
Doubts cast over clinical use of AI to analyze chest x-rays
October 3, 2023 -- Commercially available chest x-ray algorithms require more research, an influential government-backed U.K. health technology agency has recommended. AI developers must conduct prospective studies to address gaps in evidence, it says. Read More
Copenhagen researcher elaborates on radiology AI study
October 2, 2023 -- A recent Danish study found that radiologists outperformed four commercially available algorithms for identifying diseases on chest x-rays. In a video interview with AuntMinnieEurope.com, Dr. Louis Plesner discusses the main findings. Read More
Radiologists outperform chest x-ray AI in Danish study
September 28, 2023 -- Radiologists performed better than four commercially available AI algorithms when diagnosing lung diseases on chest x-rays. The next generation of AI tools may become significantly more powerful, but no fully effective systems exist yet, say the investigators from Copenhagen. Read More
Low-dose radiation damages DNA in interventional radiologists
September 25, 2023 -- Long-term exposure to low-dose radiation can cause DNA damage to lymphocyte cells in interventional radiologists -- but significantly, these doctors don't seem to be vulnerable to an increased risk of leukemia, researchers in Slovakia have reported. Read More
