Week in Review: Coverage of ECR 2026

Erik L. Ridley
Mar 13, 2026

Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,

The ECR continues to break records. For the second year in a row, attendance increased -- this year by 9% -- as 22,418 people from 121 countries participated.

Our most popular article from ECR 2026 reported on the performance of FDG-PET/CT for identifying metabolic abnormalities beyond what structural imaging could detect in subacute and chronic stroke patients.

Not surprisingly, our coverage of AI-related presentations featured prominently on our list of most-read articles from the Austria Center Vienna. A wide-ranging session on AI ethics generated the second-most page views, while issues involving cybersecurity and AI also attracted attention.

There was a significant American contingent at ECR 2026, and a talk on the lessons learned from the American College of Radiology’s Prostate MR Image Quality Improvement Collaborative appealed to many AuntMinnieEurope members. And two new FDG-PET/CT biomarkers were shown to predict outcomes in lymphoma patients.

See below for the other top stories from ECR 2026, and click here for our full ShowCast coverage. Also, stay tuned for our ECR 2026 video interview wrap-up on Saturday.

  1. ECR: FDG-PET/CT detects stroke damage missed by CT and MRI
  2. ECR: Ethical AI in radiology – why safety begins after deployment
  3. ECR: Cybersecurity – radiologists are the last bastion for verifying GenAI images
  4. ECR: Lessons from ACR’s improvement initiative on prostate MRI quality
  5. ECR: FDG-PET/CT biomarkers predict outcomes in lymphoma patients
  6. ECR: PET/CT useful for assessing sarcopenia in cancer patients
  7. ECR: Will AI’s 'smart assistants' save radiologists from burnout?
  8. ECR: New guidelines point to MRI for rectal cancer evaluation
  9. ECR: What’s the follow-up when radiologists reject AI findings?
  10. ECR: Mammography techs to have key role in risk-based cancer screening
  11. ECR: Integrating actionable reporting into the imaging workflow
  12. ECR: Imaging biomarker studies need stronger quality assurance
  13. ECR: Radiologists discuss evidence for, societal impact of radiology AI
  14. ECR: Does AI toll the beginning of the end for chest x-ray reporting?

Erik L. Ridley
Editor in Chief
AuntMinnieEurope.com

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