Medical and scientific journal publishers increasingly use Internet-based citations to reference data and software mentioned in published papers. URLs cited in the literature, however, continue to disappear, or decay, at an alarming rate. More »
Digital radiography systems are in common use for medical imaging, yet few studies have examined computed radiography quality performance in terms of reject rates. This lack is due primarily to difficulty in obtaining the data required to calculate reject statistics. More »
It may be too soon for a television series called “CSI: Radiology,” but multislice CT technology is finding uses beyond the realms of clinical or even forensic medicine. Swiss researchers have devised a way to detect smuggled dissolved cocaine using MSCT scanners (AJR:190, May 2008). More »
Most schemes that address medical image integrity and authenticity deal only with single frame images and lack satisfactory solutions for multiframe modalities. Recent work in Brazil achieves viable integrity of n-frame medical images, such as x-ray angiography or intravascular ultrasound. More »
The first practical intuitive device for browsing digital images using only hand gestures is being tested in intensive care settings and operating suites. More »
Radiology text and image data account for a significant portion of patient electronic medical record information in hospital archives, yet few means exist to aid radiologists in extracting relevant information from these databases. More »
Progress in imaging informatics tends to be incremental, one deliberate step at a time. But at least one expert believes change could be measured in much longer strides if corporations outsourced innovation. More »
More than a decade after the shift to PACS became firmly established in radiology, a national movement toward digitizing all medical information appears to be gaining traction. Google and Microsoft, two of the biggest players in the digital world, have launched efforts to provide free storage of... More »
The reluctance or inability of the healthcare industry or federal government to provide a universal online personal medical record repository mechanism has created a vacuum. This vacuum, in turn, has attracted deep-pocket giants like Google and Microsoft. More »
In its first seven years of existence, the number of cases on MyPACS has grown from a few hundred images contributed by a handful of radiologists to well over 16,000 cases containing nearly 70,000 images uploaded by radiologists from hundreds of hospitals around the world. More »
