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- Breast ultrasound effective for screening women with dense tissueby Kate Madden Yee on February 25, 2025 at 5:03 pm
Ultrasound can play a significant role in cancer detection for women with dense breast tissue where access to supplemental screening...
- Digital mammograms yield more info for radiomics than synthetic imagesby Amerigo Allegretto on February 25, 2025 at 8:00 am
Digital mammograms may be best for informing radiomics models that assess breast density.
- Adding AI to brain MRI finds previously occult epilepsy lesions in kidsby Kate Madden Yee on February 24, 2025 at 6:42 pm
Using an AI tool with brain MRI in children finds 64% of focal cortical dysplasias -- abnormalities linked to epilepsy -- that...
- 1 in 20 women around the world diagnosed with breast cancerby Amerigo Allegretto on February 24, 2025 at 4:00 pm
About one in 20 women globally are diagnosed with breast cancer and women living in low- to middle-income countries are at higher...
- PET/CT predicts relapse in patients with ovarian cancerby Will Morton on February 24, 2025 at 9:04 am
Pretreatment F-18 FDG-PET/CT scans may predict relapse in patients with advanced high-grade serous ovarian cancer.
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- Factors Influencing Radiologist Performance in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment Systemby YoonKyung Chung, Chi-Mei Liu, Lauren P. Nicola, Elizabeth Y. Rula on February 25, 2025 at 12:00 am
The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is the largest pay-for-performance program that links reimbursement to performance of Medicare clinicians. This study evaluated radiologist performance in the 2019 MIPS program and predictors of scores and underperformance.
- Sustainability in Radiology: Position Paper and Call to Action from ACR, AOSR, ASR, CAR, CIR, ESR, ESRNM, ISR, IS3R, RANZCR, and RSNA∗by Andrea G. Rockall, Bibb Allen, Maura J. Brown, Tarek El-Diasty, Jan Fletcher, Rachel F. Gerson, Stacy Goergen, Amanda P. Marrero González, Thomas M. Grist, Kate Hanneman, Christopher P. Hess, Evelyn Lai Ming Ho, Dina H. Salama, Julia Schoen, Sarah Sheard on February 25, 2025 at 12:00 am
The urgency for climate action is recognized by international government and health care organizations, including the United Nations and World Health Organization. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution negatively impact all life on earth. All populations are impacted but not equally; the most vulnerable are at highest risk, an inequity further exacerbated by differences in access to health care globally. The delivery of health care exacerbates the planetary health crisis through greenhouse gas emissions, largely due to combustion of fossil fuels for medical equipment production and operation, creation of medical and non-medical waste, and contamination of water supplies.
- Insurance-based Differences in Treatment Patterns for Uterine Fibroidsby Pratik A. Shukla, Alexandra R. Drake, Antony Sare, Elizabeth Y. Rula, Eric W. Christensen on February 18, 2025 at 12:00 am
To examine whether Medicaid versus commercial insurance and reimbursement are associated with uterine artery embolization (UAE) utilization rates for uterine fibroids treatment.
- Patient-Friendly Summary of the ACR Appropriateness Criteria®: Radiologic Management of Urinary Tract Obstructionby Sania Choudhary, Sherry S. Wang on February 11, 2025 at 12:00 am
- Figure: Trends in proportion of part-time academic radiology faculty by gender and rank.by Ajay Malhotra, Dheeman Futela, Diya Sarah Gandhi, Xiao Wu, Seyedmehdi Payabvash, Max Wintermark, Richard Duszak on February 7, 2025 at 12:00 am