Diagnostic Imaging’s Weekly Scan: October 26 — November 1

Welcome to Diagnostic Imaging’s Weekly Scan, which offers an opportunity to catch up on the most well-viewed radiology content of the past week.

In a retrospective analysis, recently published in Radiology, researchers reviewed data from triennial screening mammograms for 134,217 women in order to assess the use of the deep learning model Mirai for predictive risk scoring for interval breast cancer.

The study authors found the deep learning model offered comparable prognostic capacity for predicting interval cancer at one year, two years and three years. They also pointed out comparable assessment of interval breast cancer risk for the deep learning model across differences in age and breast density.

In a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, researchers found that radiologists from closed practices were 10 percent more likely to practice as subspecialists the following year.

Multivariable analysis revealed that radiologists with 35 or more years of practice were 77 percent more likely to become subspecialists after practice closure, according to the study authors.

Retrospective research from the European Radiology journal revealed that for patients with esophageal cancer, preoperative MRI demonstrated an average AUC above 94 percent for detecting tracheal invasion in contrast to an AUC range between 52.9 and 70.6 percent for CT.

In a recent interview with Diagnostic Imaging, pulmonologist Peter George, MBBS, BSc, PhD, FRCP, discussed multicenter trial findings showing that the AI-enabled e-Lung software may lead to significantly improved and earlier detection of progressive pulmonary fibrosis on CT scans, even in patients deemed clinically stable.

In new product news, Elucid has launched PlaqueIQ™ software, which offers AI-powered detection of carotid artery plaques at risk for rupture based on assessment of CT scans. The company maintained that the PlaqueIQ software is the only CT-based plaque analysis software indicated for the carotid vasculature.

Watch the video summary below of Diagnostic Imaging’s Weekly Scan.