Imaging Informatics: Page 365

Study finds VC cost-effective if tiny polyps are ignored

By Eric Barnes

Virtual colonoscopy is cost-effective for colorectal cancer screening, assuming that only patients with polyps 6 mm or larger are referred for polypectomy, a new French study has concluded. Removing the smallest lesions is not only prohibitively expensive, the yield in terms of additional cancer is minimal.

September 8, 2010

FOBT accuracy differs between men and women

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Sep 7 - Both immunological and guaiac-based fecal occult blood tests (FOBTs) have a higher sensitivity and lower specificity for detection of advanced colorectal neoplasm among men than among women, German investigators report.

September 6, 2010

Cancer cost world economy $895B in 2008

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Cancer has the most devastating economic effects of any cause of death in the world, according to a report published by the American Cancer Society and cancer survivor advocacy group Livestrong in Austin, TX.

September 2, 2010

CAD labels abdominal vessels with improved accuracy

By Eric Barnes

A new computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm automatically labels abdominal arteries extracted from CT images. The work-in-progress system is more accurate and less dependent on error-prone features than previous CAD schemes, say researchers from Nagoya, Japan.

September 1, 2010

MeVis first-half sales up, profit down

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Increased maintenance and service revenues helped medical imaging software developer MeVis Medical Solutions to a 15% increase in revenues in the first half of 2010.

August 29, 2010

Agfa HealthCare revenues flat in Q2

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Despite a strong performance from its computed radiography product line, Agfa HealthCare reported only a 0.3% advance in revenues in the second quarter of 2010.

August 26, 2010

Agfa, TomTec ink echo software deal

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare and imaging software developer TomTec Imaging Systems have announced an agreement to collaborate on an echocardiography analysis and measurement software package.

August 25, 2010

European PACS market could double

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The European RIS/PACS market could reach $1.35 billion in revenues in 2016, doubling the market's estimated value of $679.4 million in sales in 2009.

August 24, 2010

Men with high CRP have higher risk of colon cancer

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 22 - Men with high C-reactive protein (CRP) levels may have a higher risk of colon cancer, a new report from the EPIC study suggests.

August 22, 2010

Breast CAD helps find lobular carcinoma in situ lesions

By Eric Barnes

Computer-aided detection (CAD) is making an elusive breast abnormality, lobular carcinoma in situ, a little clearer by highlighting the calcifications that often surround it, according to a new study from Wende Breast Care in Rochester, NY.

August 19, 2010

Visbion moves to new HQ

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

PACS vendor Visbion has relocated to new offices in Surrey, U.K.

August 15, 2010

Higher-contrast mucosa and lesions don't improve colonoscopy

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 16 - Fujinon intelligent chromoendoscopy, an imaging technique designed to enhance the contrast of mucosal and vascular details, does not improve adenoma detection rates during colonoscopy, German researchers report in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

August 15, 2010

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