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African Americans, Hispanics Less Likely to Receive Recommended Lung Cancer...
Rustain Morgan, M.D., and colleagues show racial/ethnic disparities in use of important imaging during lung cancer diagnosis. Photo courtesy of University of Colorado Cancer CenterMarch 12, 2020 — The...
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2020 SBI/ACR Breast Imaging Symposium Cancelled Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
March 16, 2020 — The 2020 Society of Breast Imaging/American College of Radiology (SBI/ACR) annual symposium has been cancelled, and the event rescheduled for April 8-11, 2021, in Savannah, Ga. The...
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Experts Stress Radiology Preparedness for COVID-19
Image courtesy of Getty ImagesMarch 17, 2020 — The journal Radiology published the policies and recommendations of a panel of experts on radiology preparedness during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...
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Study Looks at CT Findings of COVID-19 Through Recovery
Series CT scans in 35-year-old woman with COVID-19 pneumonia. (a) Scan obtained on illness days 1 showed multiple pure ground-glass opacity (GGO) mainly in right lower lobe. (b) Scan obtained on...
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Researchers Use AI to Detect COVID-19
Representative examples of the attention heatmaps generated using Grad-CAM method for (a) COVID-19, (b) CAP, and (c) Non-Pneumonia. The heatmaps are standard Jet colormap and overlapped on the original...
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CDRH Issues Letter to Industry on COVID-19
March 24, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Letter to Industry that includes steps the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has taken to prioritize work...
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FDA Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update
March 25, 2020 — According to a statement on March 24 from Commissioner of Food and Drugs - Food and Drug Administration Stephen M. Hahn, M.D., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took action...
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RSNA Publishes Expert Consensus on COVID-19 Reporting
Typical CT imaging features for COVID-19. Unenhanced, thin-section axial images of the lungs in a 52-year-old man with a positive RT-PCR (A-D) show bilateral, multifocal rounded (asterisks) and...
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Artificial Intelligence Assisted Radiology Technologies Aid COVID-19 Fight in...
AI vendor Infervision's InferRead CT Pneumonia software uses artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis to improve the overall efficiency of the radiology department. It is being developed in China as...
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Unprecedented CARES Act Signed into Law
On March 27, the House of Representatives approved a historic $2 trillion stimulus package and sent it to President Trump for his signature, who then signed it into law. The package includes $100...
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RSNA Announces a COVID-19 Imaging Data Repository
March 30, 2020 — The medical imaging community around the world is uniting to help address the COVID-19 pandemic. The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) continues to build on its extensive...
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Experimental AI Tool Predicts Which COVID-19 Patients Develop Respiratory...
March 31, 2020 — An artificial intelligence tool accurately predicted which patients newly infected with the COVID-19 virus would go on to develop severe respiratory disease, a new study found.The work...
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SNMMI Launches COVID-19 Resource Center
March 31, 2020 — In a letter to its members, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) President Vasken Dilsizian, M.D., announced the development of a COVID-19 Resource Center to...
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YITU Launches AI Powered Intelligent Evaluation System of Chest CT for COVID-19
Doctor in our hospital is using this intelligent system for accurate diagnosis. (Photo: Business Wire)March 31, 2020 — The Intelligent Evaluation System of chest computed tomography (CT) for COVID-19,...
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United Imaging Prepares Transportable CTs for U.S. Deployment
April 1, 2020 — United Imaging, a global leader in advanced medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment, is preparing to deploy readily transportable computed tomography (CT) scanners in the United...
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Two Studies Use SIRD Model to Forecast COVID-19 Spread
Fig 1. A sample scoring on CT images of a 63-year-old woman from mortality group demonstrated a total score of 63. It was calculated as: for upper zone (A), 3 (consolidation) × 3 (50–75% distribution)...
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Shortage of PPE Due to COVID-19 Driving Innovation by RT in The Philippines
Improvised PPE face mask worn by a radiology technologist during rounds at Sen. Gerardo M. Roxas Memorial District Hospital in Iloilo City, Philippines.There has been an extraordinary demand for...
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New CT Scoring Criteria for Timely Diagnosis, Treatment of Coronavirus Disease
CT scoring criteria were applied to images from sequential chest CT examinations. A, Initial chest CT image obtained 2 days after onset of symptoms shows small region of subpleural ground-glass...
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Esaote Delivers 103 portable Ultrasound Systems to Four Italian Regions
Esaote won a tender launched by Consip on behalf of Civil Protection for the distribution of diagnostic equipment in Italy to face COVID-19 emergency.Marco Mugnaini, Italy Country Business Director of...
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