Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

New Lantern Radiology AI

Startup aiming to automate 90% of imaging workflows, creating an ‘AI radiology resident,’ raises $23M

Software engineer and CEO Shiva Suri says he got the idea for New Lantern after watching his radiologist mother bogged down by administrative tasks. 

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ACR, top health systems form collaborative to help radiologists assess AI solutions

"We are facing an overwhelming influx of FDA-approved AI tools in healthcare, especially in radiology," one of the participants notes. 

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Radiology AI firm Mediaire raises nearly $12.7M in financing

Founded in 2018, the German firm offers a suite of solutions to assist radiologists with interpreting MR images of the brain, prostate and knees. 

GE HealthCare

RadNet stock surges 20% to all-time high following news of GE HealthCare partnership

Under the “strategic collaboration,” subsidiary DeepHealth and GE will develop solutions that harness AI to address key challenges in radiology. 

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Radiology AI vendor Volpara Health inks $7M Department of Defense contract

The feds will deploy solutions for advanced mammography reporting, cancer risk assessment and patient tracking across the military health system. 

‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

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Real-world use of AI algorithm for collapsed lung cuts radiologist reporting times by 46%

Prompt diagnosis of such pneumothorax is crucial, with delays linked to longer hospital lengths of stay and greater disease progression, experts write in Academic Radiology

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Elon Musk urges users to submit X-ray, PET and MR images to xAI chatbot Grok

The world’s richest man asked patients and providers to try submitting scans to his company’s artificial intelligence product for further analysis. 

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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