The National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.4 million R38 grant to support research by Duke Radiation Oncology and Radiology resident-investigators. The Duke Radiation Oncology and Radiology Simulating Access to Research in...
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FocalNet, AI System from UCLA as Accurate as a Radiologist
UCLA Researchers introduce results from their new artificial intelligence (AI) system and find that it performs as well as experienced radiologists in detecting prostate cancer. Back in the Spring UCLA researchers developed an AI system to help radiologists improve...
University of Hong Kong Launches AI-Driven Medical Studies
The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) launches its Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Programme (MAIL) to pilot an artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare research study through a series of innovative and prospective clinical AI trial. HKU will collaborate with...
Emory Winship Cancer Inst. Collaborates with Telix Pharma on Clinical Trial Using Advanced Imaging of Prostate Cancer for Radiotherapy
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has agreed to partner with Australian-based Telix Pharmacueticals (TLX) on the development of a diagnostic and therapeutic product line based on targeted radiopharmaceuticals or “molecular-targeted radiation” (MTR). The...
CHOPS Study Reveals Proton Therapy Show Efficacy & Low Risk with Children Battling High-Risk NeuroBlastoma
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers analyzed the largest cohort data to date of pediatric patients with high-risk neuroblastoma treated with proton radiation therapy (PRT), finding both that proton therapy was effective at reducing tumors and demonstrated...
UK’s NHS Trials AI Software to Diagnose Breast Cancer with Kheiron Medical
The Financial Times (FT)reporters Aliya Ram and Madhumita Murgia report that shortages of European radiologists are pushing the demand for nascent Artificial Intelligence (AI) software marketplace. Most recently, Kheiron Medical is being deployed by National Health...
Germans Pinpoint How Gadolinium Passes Through the Brain
Researchers from Heidelberg University Hospital and Essen University Hospital have found a way to monitor precisely how gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) enter the brain via the glymphatic pathway. This aspect has been overlooked and misinterpreted in the past...
Site Watch Leading: SCRIPPS Cancer Earns ASTRO Accreditation
Three radiation therapy centers operated by Scripps Health and Scripps Clinic Medical Group have become the first in San Diego County to earn accreditation from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), the world's largest radiation oncology society....
New AI Platform Diagnoses Brain Disease in Seconds
George Citroner, MedScape, writes that an artificial intelligence (AI) platform accurately identifies acute neurologic events, such as stroke, from CT scans in as little as 1.2 seconds, new research suggests. If the findings are confirmed, this technology would...
Lack of Sex-Specific Clinical Research Threatens Quality of Radiology Care
As reported by Anicka Slachta in Radiology Business, recent research published in Journal of the American College of Radiology highlights “gender is poorly controlled—and often neglected—variable in radiology human subjects research showcases the need for more...
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) AI Medical Imaging Spinoff Raises $15+ Million
The new venture, founded by CUHK Professor Heng Pheng -ann, focuses on research and development of "medical imaging products while continuing to explore clinical applications of its products." In an interview with the Hong Kong Economic Journal, the company reveals it...
Pharma Paid Radiologists More Than $43.6 Million in 2015
Publication Academic Radiology reported that over $43 million in 2015. The research was undertaken by two Canadian researchers Marc Jutras, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine in Vancouver and Faisal Khosa, MD, MBA, department of Radiology at Vancouver...