Medical Imaging

Johns Hopkins Awarded $10M for Genomics, Immunotherapy Research

by Shania Kennedy

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research and the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (BKI) awarded $10 million to The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to accelerate groundbreaking genomics...

AI Approved for Adults May Aid Interpretation of Pediatric Chest Images

by Shania Kennedy

A study published in Scientific Reports earlier this month found that artificial intelligence (AI)-based software approved for use in interpreting adult chest radiographs achieved high performance on...

Geisinger Deploys AI Imaging Model to Diagnose Coronary Artery Disease

by Shania Kennedy

Clinicians at Pennsylvania-based Geisinger health system have deployed an artificial intelligence (AI) medical imaging model that uses computed tomography (CT) scans to create 3D models of a...

NC Radiology Center to Deploy AI Tools for Enhanced Breast Cancer Care

by Shania Kennedy

Physician-owned radiology company US Radiology Specialists is partnering with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) software company Volpara Health to deploy AI tools at Charlotte Radiology with the...

AI Can Detect Race When Clinicians Cannot, Increasing Risk of Bias

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have found that artificial intelligence (AI) models can accurately detect self-reported racial identity using medical images, but the mechanisms they use to do so are unclear to...

NJ Health System Implements AI Imaging Tool to Improve Health Outcomes

by Shania Kennedy

Atlantic Health System and New York-based artificial intelligence healthcare solutions company Aidoc have announced a partnership to implement an AI imaging solution to help physicians expedite care...

AI to Detect Hip Fracture Outperforms Clinicians, But Use May Be Limited

by Shania Kennedy

A deep-learning algorithm outperformed clinicians at detecting proximal femoral fractures, a type of hip fracture, when presented with X-ray images, according to a study published in The Lancet Digital...

Research Challenges Limit Machine Learning Use in Medical Imaging

by Shania Kennedy

Though research on machine learning use in medical imaging has grown significantly in recent years, improvements in the clinical use of such data remain limited, according to a study published in npj...

New Artificial Intelligence System Can Help Predict Cardiac Arrests

by Mark Melchionna

To enhance the accuracy of predicting cardiac arrest, researchers from Johns Hopkins University created an artificial intelligence (AI) system based on raw images of patient hearts and data on their...

Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Heart Disease Diagnosis in Ultrasounds

by Mark Melchionna

Following the implementation of an artificial intelligence system into ultrasound procedures, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) noticed a sharp increase in the...

WellSpan York Hospital Implements AI Imaging Solution

by Mark Melchionna

Pennsylvania-based WellSpan York Hospital has implemented Aidoc's artificial intelligence (AI) solution, which helps radiologists find imaging abnormalities that cannote be seen with the naked...

What Providers Can Do to Minimize AI-Based Image Reconstruction Risks

by Anuja Vaidya

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to reconstruct images from data obtained during magnetic resonance imaging, computerized tomography, or other types of scans. While AI has been shown to improve the quality of scans and...

Computer Vision Model Improved Quality of Head MRIs

by Mark Melchionna

Following the increased demand for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the shortage of radiologists in recent years, a study published in Medical Image Analysis shows how creating a computer vision...

Michigan Medicine Uses AI to Measure Aortic Growth

by Erin McNemar, MPA

Michigan Medicine researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence method of measuring aortic growth that can assist clinicians in identifying potentially fatal heart conditions...

Machine Learning Can Assist in Hip Fracture Classification

by Erin McNemar, MPA

A new machine-learning method used to identify and classify hip fractures has demonstrated its ability to outperform human clinicians. Two convolutional neural networks (CNNs) developed at the...

NC Health System Enters AI Partnership To Improve Care Coordination 

by Erin McNemar, MPA

Cone Health, a nonprofit healthcare network serving patients in North Carolina, and Rad AI, a radiologist-led artificial intelligence company, announced the finalization of their partnership to...

Newly Developed Artificial Intelligence Method Evaluates Vision Loss 

by Erin McNemar, MPA

National Eye Institute researchers created and validated an artificial intelligence-based method to evaluate patients with Stargardt, an eye disease that can lead to childhood vision loss. The AI...

Using Machine Learning For Personalized Breast Cancer Screenings 

by Erin McNemar, MPA

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning and Health studied the use of machine learning to...

AI Detects Cancerous Lesions in Mammography Scans 

by Erin McNemar, MPA

Duke University researchers have created an artificial intelligence platform to analyze potentially cancerous lesions in mammography scans and determine whether patients should...

Artificial Intelligence Provides Precise Treatment Recommendations 

by Erin McNemar, MPA

Case Western Reserve University researchers are using artificial intelligence to identify which patients with certain head and neck cancers would benefit from reducing the intensity of...