Dear AuntMinnie Member,
Determining whether a penetrating foreign body has reached cortical bone is a clinically important question in emergency settings, and a team at the University of Saskatchewan has developed a new x-ray protocol that can help. They’ve called it the “high noon” view. Get the full the details here.
After you’ve read that article, check out our coverage of a study conducted by Ethiopian researchers who developed a new strategy for diagnosing tuberculosis in low-resource, high-incidence settings: photographing film x-rays to create digital files and then feeding them to AI.
In other AI research news, we're highlighting a postdeployment evaluation of an AI decision-support tool for emergency x-ray use that showed the tool to be accurate but still in need of professional judgment, as well as these stories that illustrate the value and limitations of the technology:
Aortic calcification visible on chest x-rays is associated with poorer overall survival in patients following minor lower extremity amputation, according to a team in Finland.
A group in the U.K. found that automatically flagging suspicious chest X-rays with AI for urgent radiologist review did not reduce time to CT or lung cancer diagnosis.
Structured reporting with AI assistance improves efficiency and diagnostic accuracy when radiologists report on bedside chest x-rays, according to a German study.
We've also posted stories on research that delved into the value of x-rays. Investigators found that young athletes with low back pain may not need to undergo imaging beyond initial x-rays (and yet they do).
Finally, we covered an article by fact-checking website Snopes that debunked a viral rumor that the Lego Group added barium sulfate to its bricks so they will show up on x-rays if swallowed.
For more x-ray news, be sure to check in regularly with our Digital X-Ray content area. And as always, if you have x-ray topics you'd like us to consider, please contact me.
Will Morton
Associate Editor
AuntMinnie.com