Dr. Keith Dreyer, MD PhD and MGH Experts on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Radiology
Dr. Keith Dreyer, MD PhD, a physician-researcher-executive at Partners Healthcare and luminary in imaging informatics discusses machine learning in opening this brief video on various perspectives.
Additional Mass General radiologists including Dr. James Brink (Chief of Radiology at Mass General) and researchers discuss their vision for the MGH Center for Clinical Data Science and the application of machine learning to the future of healthcare. (Source: radRounds)
Source: radRounds - December 7, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: radRounds Radiology Network Source Type: blogs
Industry and Medical Imaging Innovator Spotlight - Radiologist Dr. Leonardo Valentin joins NVIDIA, first physician on the team, enabling the future for artificial intelligence in radiology
As part of our series of Industry and Medical Imaging Innovator Spotlights, radRounds has the honor to introduce and interview Radiologist, Dr. Leonardo Valentin. Dr. Leonardo Valentin joins NVIDIA, first physician on the team, with a key leadership role in medical imaging at NVIDIA, enabling the future for artificial intelligence in radiology._________________________________________________________radRounds:Why did you go into radiology?Dr. Valentin: I began thinking about radiology when I was in college. I was majoring in computer science through a joint pre-med informatics track at the University of Miami and I had ...
Source: radRounds - December 4, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: radRounds Radiology Network Source Type: blogs
Samsung Reveals New Efficient Scanner
Medical imaging giant Samsung recently unleashed its latest innovation: the OmniTom, a 16-slice CT scanner. After receiving FDA clearance in August, the machine was scheduled to debut at the Radiological Society of North America ’s annual conference in Chicago. The OmniTom is a part of Samsung ’s AccE campaign, which stands for Access, Accuracy, and Efficiency. According to apress release, the OmniTom is a step up from theCereTom, an 8-slice portable CT scanner. Aside from being ideal for cranial procedures and keeping a small footprint, this new scanner features several additional advancements, including:Omni-directio...
Source: radRounds - December 2, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
A Multidisciplinary Team Creates Child-Friendly MRI Coils
Miki Lustig, PhD, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at University of California Berkeley wanted to make MRI coils less heavy and cumbersome for child patients. Ana Claudia Arias, PhD, a physicist in the same department was creating printed wearable devices made of liquid nanoparticles. Although Arias didn ’t know anything about MRI and Lustig had no experience building hardware, the two combined forged to develop lightweight plastic MRI coils. There has been a lack of advancement in imaging technology for children patients. Arias and Lustig worked with Shreyas Vasanawala, MD, a pediatric ...
Source: radRounds - December 2, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Concussions Take a Rapid Toll on Young Brains
This study demonstrates that playing a season of contact sports at the youth level can produce neuroimaging brain changes, particularly for the DMN, " said Murugesan. (Source: radRounds)
Source: radRounds - December 2, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
List of Open Access Medical Imaging Datasets
Open access medical imaging datasets are needed for research, product development, and more for academia and industry. We hope this guide will be helpful for machine learning and artificial intelligence startups, researchers, and anyone interested at all. This is a growing list and will be periodically updated - if you know of another open medical imaging dataset, please email data@radrounds.com.Radiology Open Repositories:NIH- 100,000 chest x-rays with diagnoses, labels, annotationTCIA - The Cancer Imaging Archive consisting of extensive number of datasets from Lung IMage Database Consortium (LIDC), Reference Image ...
Source: radRounds - December 2, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: radRounds Radiology Network Source Type: blogs
AI Has a Firm Grip on Radiology, But (Hopefully) Patients Will Prefer Human Doctors Over Robots
Artificial intelligence occupies powerful space in the medical industry. Today, many clinics and hospitals have tablets in place of receptionists, deep learning models are alreadydiagnosing TB, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are usingalgorithms to detect breast cancer before a breast imager can. These advancements accelerate image interpretation, and in a lot of ways, make a radiologist or technologist’s job easier; however, is technology poised to obliterate the radiologist’s role altogether? According to the financial management firmCornerstone Capital Group, out of the 16 million retail worke...
Source: radRounds - November 23, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
CTRL-Labs Brain-Controlling Technology Could Disrupt Medical Technology
Ever since the dawn of computers, we ’ve depended on certain hardware to take our ideas from our brains to the screen. However, CTRL-Labs, a New York City-based neuro-tech company, is merging neuroscience and computing practices to create technology that directly links brain activity to computer output, cutting out the keyboard, mous e, buttons, and any other tool required in operating our tech devices. CTRL-Labs co-founder, Thomas Reardon, and Adam Berenzweig, Vandita Sharma, among the other staff of scientists, are using electromyography (EMG) to detect the signals that move through the spinal column, whichWired repor...
Source: radRounds - November 23, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Study Shows Facebook is a Productive Tool for Radiology
In many professions, Facebook is considered a dangerous time waster, but for radiologists, the social media platform has become a necessary tool in nurturing community education. A newstudy from the department of radiology at Emory University School of Medicine has found that physicians could professionally benefit from engaging in radiology subspecialty Facebook groups. The researchers led by Rebecca L. Seidel, MD, assistant professor of breast imaging, observed the activity of Breast Imaging Radiologists Facebook group (BIRFG) from its first day on Facebook (February 11, 2015) through February 12, 2017. They thoroughly ...
Source: radRounds - November 23, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
My Perspective of Nursing
A common notion goes that an individual ’s environment tells a lot about them in terms of the extent of his or her knowledge. Theirexperiences shape a person ’s choices, desires, and wants in life. Growing up, I wanted to become a lawyer. However, my mother becamesick and I had to take care of her. She suffered a stroke partially incapacitated her, a condition that necessitated my help as her caregiver. This was a challenging experience for my family and I. I would take her for checkups, treatments, and other medical procedures. Watching the way nurses took care of the patients as if they were part of their families in...
Source: radRounds - November 21, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Nelson Clark Source Type: blogs
RSNA Shines a Spotlight on Machine Learning This Year
The Radiology Society of North America will introduce machine learning labs at this year ’s meeting as an effort to increase exposure of the technology throughout the field. “No question — machine learning will change the way radiologists practice in the years ahead, sometimes dramatically. But there is much work to be done before ML becomes common place,”said Curtis Langlotz, MD, PhD, the RSNA board liaison for information technology and annual meeting. Machine learning could help streamline data processing for large image datasets. Institutions like Stanford University are working toward implementing an automate...
Source: radRounds - November 17, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Why We Need Emergency Radiology Now More Than Ever
Emergency radiology requires radiologists to shapeshift into precise and calculated emergency physicians. From University of California Los Angeles to the Royal Manchester Children ’s Hospital, here are some examples of how the radiology department has become a crucial component of emergency services. When a suicide bomb explosion injured 250 people at an Ariana Grande concert on Monday, May 22, 2017, pediatric radiologist Rui Santos, MD, spent all night conducting low-dose full-body scans of the wounded fans. Many of the victims of the attack had secondary blast injuries as a result of the nuts, bolts, and screws that t...
Source: radRounds - November 17, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Don't Miss These Sessions at RSNA
The Radiological Society of North America annual meeting will kick off on Sunday, November 26 at the McCormick Place in Chicago. There are many panels, workshops, discussions, and reading sessions happening every day. You can plan out your schedule with the RSNAprogram, yet, here are some special events that radRounds recommends on prioritizing: The Opening Session. From 8:30 to 10:15 am, RSNA president Richard L. Ehman, MD, founder of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Roderic I. Pettigrew, MD, PhD, and Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, the former director of the National Institutes of Health will be sh...
Source: radRounds - November 17, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
More Residents and Medical Students are Choosing Interventional Radiology Over Diagnostic Radiology
Medical students are more interested in interventional radiology than diagnostic radiology, says a study published inCurrent Problems in Radiology. Researchers from the University of California San Francisco asked students to fill out a five-point Likert scale survey to determine their level of curiosity in either a career in IR or DR. Radiology residents responded to a separate 10-point scale survey evaluating their interest in IR or DR for their residency. The questionnaire results found that students are drawn to IR because of the high rate of procedures, the direct patient care component, and the reputation the role ca...
Source: radRounds - November 11, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
MRI Shows How Astronauts ’ Brains Change While in Space
The objective was to determine the change in volume of the central nucleus, the volume of the CSF spaces at the vertex, and analyze the “vertical displacement of the brain.” Seventeen of the 18 long-flight astronauts (who, on average, were in space for 164.8 days) and three out of the 16 astronauts who participated in shorter flights (average flight time was 13.6 days) experienced narrowing of the central nucleus. Cine clips demonstrated an upward shift of the brain after long flights but not in shorter ones. After all long flights, astronauts had narrowed CSF spaces at the vertex, whereas this only occurred in 16 perc...
Source: radRounds - November 11, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
