During a 2016 simulation exercise, researchers evaluated the ability of 32 different deep learning algorithms to detect lymph node metastases in patients with breast cancer. Each algorithm’s performance was then compared to that of a panel of 11 pathologists with time constraint (WTC). Overall, the team found that seven of the algorithms outperformed the panel of pathologists, publishing an in-depth analysis in JAMA.

Kattesh V. Katti, MScEd, PhD, a professor of radiology and physics at the University of Missouri in Columbia, specializes in planet-friendly nanotechnology and has developed a potential cancer treatment that “uses no toxic chemicals and leaves zero toxic waste.”

A 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy named Hen, from the Cazenovia Public Library in New York, was transferred for five hours to the Crouse Hinds Hospital in Syracuse for medical tests and technological exams that could potentially offer new information about the mummy and humanity in that time.

An abscess is one of the few breast-specific emergencies that require urgent treatment in emergency departments (EDs). A new study, presented at RSNA 2017 in Chicago, found that ED environments generate unnecessary exams in addition to some that incompletely identify malignancies.

It’s a problem radiologists and technologists encounter from time to time: the claustrophobic patient who needs an MRI. They need the exam, but they’re not exactly happy about the process.

British researchers have successfully outfitted a needle with optical fibers capable of transmitting and receiving ultrasonic pulses within the heart during minimally invasive cardiac surgeries. The achievement may represent a new way to optically image tiny tissue targets in real time and at high resolution throughout the body.

The National Health Service’s Care Quality Commission has launched a national review of its radiology services after indications that more than 20,000 chest x-rays and 2,000 abdomen X-rays of patients were not interpreted by trained personnel.

The term “STAT” implies urgency: act immediately. But when clinicians overuse that designation, it becomes more difficult and time-consuming to distinguish true emergencies from cases that can wait, said Anna Trofimova, MD, PhD, a diagnostic radiology resident at Emory University School of Medicine.