Imaging Informatics

Imaging informatics (also known as radiology informatics, a component of wider medical or healthcare informatics) includes systems to transfer images and radiology data between radiologists, referring physicians, patients and the entire enterprise. This includes picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), wider enterprise image systems, radiology information. systems (RIS), connections to share data with the electronic medical record (EMR), and software to enable advanced visualization, reporting, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, exam ordering, clinical decision support, dictation, and remote image sharing and viewing systems.

Google's machine learning to study radiotherapy for oral cancers

Google’s machine-learning division, DeepMind, is partnering with the U.K.’s National Health Service through the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in an effort to treat oral cancers more efficiently, according to Fortune.   

Imaging technology comes to Canadian medical classroom

Computed tomography images will be making a bigger-than-normal impact on some medical students at the University of British Columbia, according to Phys.org. 

vRad expands national imaging database

Virtual Radiologic (vRad), a Mednax company that specializes in teleradiology services and telemedicine, has enhanced and updated its Radiology Patient Care Indices, a national radiology database.

Thyroid cancer possibly over-diagnosed

Methods to diagnose thyroid cancer may be almost too good, according to the authors of a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

Brain atrophy related to treatment time, but not recovery likelihood, in SRSE patients

Patients with super-refractory status epilepticus (SRSE) could end up with brain atrophy after a prolonged seizure and treatment, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Neurology. 

Portable PET scanner allows for views of brains in motion

Researchers will now be able to find out what’s going on in study subjects’ brains as they move around, perform tasks or speak. That’s because a project from doctors at the University of Virginia Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging have invented the first wearable PET scanner, called the AM-PET Helmet. 

Healthier lifestyle associated with fewer dementia-related brain proteins in PET scans

Having a lower BMI, eating healthier foods and getting more physicial activity could be associated with fewer PET scan-detectable amyloid and tau proteins in the brain in adults with subjective memory impairment and mild cognitive impairment, according to a new study. 

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PACS Roundtable, Part 2: The Ideal PACS-EMR Relationship

An expert panel weighs in on what makes the PACS-EMR integration click.

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.