Radiologists use diagnostic imaging to non-invasively look inside the body to help determine the causes of an injury or an illness, and confirm a diagnosis. Providers use many imaging modalities to do so, including CT, MRI, X-ray, Ultrasound, PET and more.
Chest CT is routinely performed for things like lung cancer screening, coronary calcium assessment and pulmonary nodule surveillance, but the modality also can be used to extract additional information.
By highlighting subtle abnormalities that could otherwise be overlooked, an algorithm could potentially serve as an additional safety net when radiographic findings are indeterminate.
The Medipattern Corp., a developer of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) software applications for medical imaging, has released B-CAD 2.0, an expanded version of its B-CAD software for breast ultrasound.
Scientific Vision Systems, Inc. (SVS), a distributor of medical, industrial, and professional video equipment in the U.S., recently announced availability of the new Sony UP-55MD medical printer.
Microsoft Corp. recently announced the formation of the BioIT Alliance, a cross-industry group working to further integrate science and technology for more personalized medicine.
Diskriter, Inc. and M*Modal have entered into an agreement to integrate M*Modal’s proprietary speech understanding technology into Diskriter’s medical transcription platform.
For the second quarter of fiscal 2006 which ended March 31, 2006, Siemens Corp. reported net income of around $1.1 billion, up 14 percent compared to approximately $995 million in the same period a year earlier.
St. Anthony Hospital in Oregon lost more than 5,000 x-ray studies recently due to a hard-drive crash in a GE Healthcare archive system. Because of the loss, the hospital has issued letters to 900 patients informing them of the situation.
OrthoView, which exhibited for the first time at the recent Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM, formerly SCAR) meeting in Austin, Texas, has signed up two new partners to distribute their orthopedic digital templating system, OrthoView.
