Diagnostic Imaging's Weekly Scan: May 10 to May 14, 2021

The use of adjunctive bpMRI-based AI led to 10 percent and greater increases in lesion-level PPV for csPCa and PCa with a threshold of PI-RADS > 3.

In the first of a multi-part podcast episode, Stamatia Destounis, MD, Emily Conant, MD and Habib Rahbar, MD, share their insights on the role of abbreviated breast MRI in breast screening.

In external validation findings from a 29-study meta-analysis, MRI-based AI had a pooled AUC of 85 percent for preoperative prediction for microvascular invasion in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

In a second part of a new podcast episode on recently published research on projected radiation-induced cancers from computed tomography (CT) scans, Mahadevappa Mahesh, MS, Ph.D., and Joseph Cavallo, M.D., offer current perspectives on cardiac CT dosing, AI advances and the importance of teamwork in ensuring appropriate dosing for CT.

The updated capabilities of SwiftMR include personalized scan settings within the software, artifact reduction and cloud integration.

Emerging research revealed significantly enhanced sensitivity for prostate cancer detection with adjunctive and stand-alone use of AI.