Renal cancer overdiagnoses | Oprah blesses CT scanner | Inappropriate CT use in EDs | Opportunistic AI improves CRC detection

Maui Memorial Medical Center, a 214-bed acute care hospital in Wailuku, celebrated the new computed tomography machine with its imaging team on June 8. 

Renal cell carcinoma diagnoses have increased steadily over the last 30 years, rising by up to 3% annually in the U.S. alone.

The overuse of CT scans on kids could be owed, at least in part, to the fear of missing a critical finding, new research suggests.

In late March, GE issued Urgent Medical Device Correction notices to customers believed to be affected by the software issue.

Procedure planning studies that once took hours can now be completed in just 25 minutes with 3D technology advances and AI.

The AI framework was designed to identify radiomic signatures of pre-diagnostic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma on CT.

Bill, a 61-year-old Siamese crocodile that calls Utah’s Hogle Zoo home, recently had to undergo advanced imaging due to concerns about his health. 

The COlorectal Cancer detection with AI, or COCA, model is a cost-effective, scalable solution that turns routine CT scans into opportunistic exams that can be used to proactively identify CRC.