Chest Radiology: Page 17

CT proves indispensable in lung transplant cases

By Philip Ward

Radiologists from the hospital that carried out the first lung transplant in France on a COVID-19 patient have shared their experiences and knowledge of how imaging can help to improve outcome and minimize the risk of rejection of the transplanted organ.

January 11, 2021

Lung CT scans help predict COVID-19 mortality risk

By Erik L. Ridley

Investigators have found that volumetric analysis of lung consolidation on chest CT scans can be used to forecast the risk of COVID-19 patients dying in the hospital and aid in management decisions. They published their results online on 6 January in European Journal of Radiology Open.

January 11, 2021

French team backs use of CTPA for pulmonary embolism

By Kate Madden Yee

Investigators from Brest in France have found that CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) can play a key role in screening for pulmonary embolism in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who presented at the hospital with worsening respiratory symptoms. They published their results on 5 January in JAMA.

January 6, 2021

Radiologist describes getting COVID-19 vaccine

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A radiologist from Alabama who was one of the first healthcare professionals in the U.S. to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has shared her story because of her experiences interpreting chest and lung images of patients with the disease.

January 4, 2021

Frankfurt team optimizes chest CT of COVID-19 cases

By Kate Madden Yee

Researchers from Frankfurt in Germany have used minimum intensity projection reconstructions to improve the accuracy of chest CT exams when it comes to identifying ground-glass opacity in patients with suspected COVID-19 disease. They published their findings on 14 December in the European Journal of Radiology.

December 21, 2020

1st COVID-19 annotated dataset is published

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The first annotated dataset of anonymized COVID-19 medical images from the RSNA International COVID-19 Open Radiology Database has been published by the Cancer Imaging Archive.

December 20, 2020

Reliance on ultrasound grows in COVID-19 pandemic

By Theresa Pablos

Doctors in Italy are depending more than ever on ultrasound as part of their daily physical examinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We can't afford CT scans for all our patients, and ultrasound's become like a third arm, according to one internal medicine physician.

December 17, 2020

Aidoc and Imbio team up on AI for pulmonary embolism

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Artificial intelligence (AI) software developers Aidoc and Imbio have formed a partnership to develop an AI package for the detection and quantification of pulmonary embolism.

December 8, 2020

Use LDCT to screen for lung cancer, Germans say

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Using low-dose CT (LDCT) to screen for lung cancer in current and formerly heavy smokers offers more benefit than harm, according to the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care.

December 3, 2020

New algorithm can detect TB using a phone

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A deep learning-based tuberculosis (TB) detection model can detect TB on phone-captured chest x-ray photographs, a poster presented at the RSNA 2020 virtual conference revealed.

December 1, 2020

Chest experts unveil COVID-19 findings at RSNA meeting

By Kate Madden Yee

CT is showing value in assessing the prevalence and severity of COVID-19 and evaluating ongoing conditions, especially when combined with artificial intelligence, according to presentations delivered by three thoracic specialists on Sunday at the RSNA 2020 virtual meeting.

November 29, 2020

RSNA awards Margulis prize to COVID-19 paper

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The RSNA has awarded its Alexander R. Margulis Award for Scientific Excellence to a radiologist in China who was one of the first to use CT to investigate a mysterious lung condition that later came to be known as COVID-19. The award recognizes the best original scientific paper of the year published in Radiology.

November 29, 2020

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