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.
Computer-aided-detection (CAD) systems for chest imaging are emerging and will play a pivotal role in the future of radiology, discussed Matthew Brown, PhD, at yesterday’s SCAR University session that focused on image processing, 3D and CAD.
Planar Systems, Inc. today announced it has selected ATI Technologies Inc. to provide advanced graphics processing technology for its medical imaging products.
Speech recognition provider Commissure, Inc. announced a partnership with INFINITT North America, a global medical imaging company that provides PACS, RIS and 3D solutions.
R2 Technology, Inc., yesterday announced a multi-year agreement with GE Healthcare under which GE will distribute R2’s proprietary ImageChecker D mammography CAD system with the GE Senographe 2000D.
Today’s opening of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) meeting in Austin, Texas, brought the announcement of an expansion and name change for the organization, too. The organization is now called the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) with a broadened mission that reaches into other clinical specialties beyond the field of radiology.
Technology should provide tools that facilitate the power of the human mind in ways that stimulate creativity in ways that emphasize visual information as a form of thought, through looking, seeing, understanding, according to recognized expert in user interface design and evaluation Ben Shneiderman, PhD.
The new-generation PACS administrator is the imaging informatics administrator (IIA), said George Bowers, MBA, principal with Health Care Information Consultants and chair of the SCAR imaging informatics education subcommittee during the Imaging Informatics Administration Symposium yesterday.
Craig Bryant, senior systems analyst for Sharp Healthcare (San Diego, Calif.) outlined the technological concepts and complexities of PACS and explained some of the duties of a PACS administrator during SCAR’s Imaging Informatics Administration Symposium yesterday.
