AI rivals radiologists in finding brain hemorrhages

A deep-learning algorithm can be as effective—or more effective—than radiologists in finding intercranial hemorrhages on CT scans.

Mammography does a good job detecting calcifications, but its specificity for distinguishing benign from malignant findings remains low.

Patients have been identifying physicians by their white coats for many years now, but is such a uniform really necessary in radiology?

Researchers trained the machine by feeding it almost 230,000 digital mammography exams and more than 1 million images.

As the imaging expert’s responsibility has grown on the care team, so too should the radiology department play a part in preventing HAIs, researchers argued. 

Some observers suggest that one physician’s self-reported burnout is another’s normal work fatigue. But nearly all the experts agree that such variability is no excuse for simply dismissing the phenomenon.

CVS Health is experimenting with drone delivery to its pharmacy customers through a new partnership with UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward.

Pregnant women may soon be able to assess their own risk of preeclampsia, according to work published in the Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy.