Chest Radiology: Page 31

How appropriate are requests for CT scans of aorta?
By Philip Ward
Emergency physicians must do more to assess the risk of acute aortic syndrome, while hospital doctors and general practitioners need to supply more precise and complete clinical information when requesting CT scans of the aorta, according to the findings of a new U.K. study.
August 5, 2019
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RSIP Vision unveils new AI module for lung biopsy
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Computer software and artificial intelligence (AI) company RSIP Vision has released a new AI module that can pinpoint lesions and relevant anatomy during image-guided lung biopsy.
July 22, 2019
AI firm Mindshare Medical gets CE Mark
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Mindshare Medical has received Europe's CE Mark for its RevealAI-Lung software for use with CT scans.
July 16, 2019
Mindshare secures CE Mark for lung cancer AI
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Mindshare Medical has received the CE Mark for the sale of its RevealAI-Lung, AI-based software designed to detect lung cancer on CT scans.
July 14, 2019
Are you drowning from too many acronyms?
By Philip Ward
Overusing acronyms and abbreviations in imaging requests and reports can cause confusion, delay a diagnosis, and compromise patient safety, and it's essential to create an approved list of common acronyms, according to a new audit conducted in Scotland.
June 25, 2019
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Germany releases new data on CT lung screening
By Abraham Kim
Fresh statistics from the German Lung Cancer Screening Intervention trial have shown that CT lung cancer screening reduced cancer mortality by 69% in high-risk female smokers, but the test offered less of a benefit to men. The results were published online on 4 June in the International Journal of Cancer.
June 17, 2019
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SynApps software to be used more widely for CT lung checks
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Enterprise content management specialist SynApps' Veolity medical image processing software will be used across eight National Health Service (NHS) England facilities in the NHS' effort to use mobile CT scanners to check the lung health of 600,000 people over the next four years.
June 11, 2019
QUIBIM secures CE Mark for chest x-ray algorithm
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Advanced image analysis software developer QUIBIM has received the CE Mark for its Chest X-Ray Classification software application.
May 27, 2019
Lung ultrasound shows promise in pulmonary TB
By Philip Ward
In suspected cases of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) where radiation dose is of great concern, particularly in younger patients, lung ultrasound is a valid, noninvasive, and cost-effective tool compared with chest CT, new research from Italy has found.
May 1, 2019
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U.K. team uses CT method to assess pulmonary ventilation
By Philip Ward
Using a CT-based computational model to determine the ventilation heterogeneity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with increased detail can improve the stratification of these patients according to their disease severity and evaluate their suitability for regional treatment, researchers from Oxford, U.K., have found.
April 29, 2019
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U.K. physicians overlook lung cancer in nonsmokers
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The detection of lung cancer in individuals who have never smoked continues to be a diagnostic challenge for many clinicians in the U.K., according to an article published online 25 April in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
April 25, 2019
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Belgian team warns about health effects of vaping
By Philip Ward
Two senior radiologists from Belgium have issued a fresh warning about the potentially harmful effects of electronic cigarettes on health, and they have called for more research into this emerging field. Their findings are to be presented soon at the European Society of Thoracic Imaging congress in Paris.
April 23, 2019
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