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New lens system for endoscopes could allow physicians to see inside the body like never before
The human body contains a vast, complex, and interconnected web of organic tunnels and passageways that weave their way through the cardiovascular, respiratory, and digestive systems. For physicians, reaching into this maze ...
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Oncology & Cancer
Photoacoustic imaging technique reduces skin tone bias in breast cancer detection
Breast cancer is a major health concern worldwide, and early detection is crucial for effective treatment. Traditional imaging methods, such as mammography, have limitations, especially for women with dense breast tissue. ...
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Highly sensitive, foldable detector represents a step toward safer X-rays
X-rays are a common component of diagnostic testing and industrial monitoring, used for everything from monitoring your teeth to scanning your suitcase at the airport. But the high-energy rays also produce ionizing radiation, ...
Nov 13, 2024
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AI analysis of PET/CT images predicts side effects of immunotherapy in lung cancer
Dr. Watanabe and his team from Niigata University have revealed that PET/CT image analysis using artificial intelligence (AI) can predict the occurrence of interstitial lung disease, known as a serious side effect of immunotherapy ...
Nov 13, 2024
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MRI-guided radiation therapy shown to reduce long-term side effects for patients with prostate cancer
After a comprehensive two-year follow-up, researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that MRI-guided stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for prostate cancer significantly reduced long-term ...
Nov 13, 2024
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Uncharted territory: Expert discusses technology to map brain activity
To understand how different regions of the brain work together, researchers use a method called resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI). The method measures brain activity by observing changes in blood ...
Nov 11, 2024
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Medical physicists develop international radiotherapy dose audits
Medical physicists at the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) have worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to develop a global radiotherapy audit method.
Nov 11, 2024
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2008 to 2020 saw more radiologists involved in teaching
From 2008 to 2020, there was an increase in the percentage of U.S. radiologists involved in resident teaching, but teaching radiologists' total workload involving trainees has decreased, according to a study published online ...
Nov 8, 2024
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Fluorescence-guided imaging technique could improve head and neck cancer surgery
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) ranks as one of the most common cancers globally, with over 650,000 new cases reported each year. Surgical intervention is often the primary treatment, but surgeons face a difficult ...
Nov 7, 2024
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New microscope enables deep and wide neuroimaging
Researchers at Cornell have unveiled an advanced imaging technology capable of unprecedented deep and wide-field visualization of brain activity at single-cell resolution. The innovative microscope, named DEEPscope, combines ...
Nov 6, 2024
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Medical oncologist explains how breast cancer screening can save lives
Breast cancer screening helps people live longer. Screening can catch cancer early, either in the precancerous stage or when it's localized to a very small part of the body. When we can catch it early and decrease the risk ...
Nov 5, 2024
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Open-source AI model can assess biomedical images and text to provide real-time, patient-focused insight
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but they both have a lot of work to do to catch up to BiomedGPT. A Lehigh University research team has now collaborated with Massachusetts General Hospital in an effort to transform ...
Nov 4, 2024
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Warning for younger women: Be vigilant on breast cancer risk
Breast cancer rates rose by 1% a year from 2012–2021 for all American women combined, but steeper increases were seen for women under 50 and Asian American and Pacific Islander women, according to the American Cancer Society, ...
Nov 3, 2024
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Can a mammogram identify heart disease risk?
When people check in for their annual mammogram these days, some may face a surprising question: In addition to reviewing the mammogram for breast cancer, would the patient like the radiologist to examine the images for heart ...
Nov 2, 2024
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From eye exams to blood tests and surgery: How doctors use light to diagnose disease
You're not feeling well. You've had a pounding headache all week, dizzy spells and have vomited up your past few meals.
Nov 1, 2024
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First 3D images of complete human thymus illuminate its structure and function
The first 3D images of a whole human thymus have been created using a specialized X-ray technique by researchers from University College London (UCL) and the Francis Crick Institute. The highly-intricate images showed that ...
Oct 31, 2024
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X-ray vision-language foundation model enhances medical diagnostics
A research team has developed a chest X-ray vision-language foundation model, MaCo, reducing the dependency on annotations while improving both clinical efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. The study was published in Nature ...
Oct 31, 2024
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New imaging technique identifies glioblastoma patients who would benefit from immunotherapy
A team from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has developed a new immuno-PET imaging technique that could spot which glioblastoma patients would respond well to immunotherapy and that tracks the response over time.
Oct 29, 2024
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Using AI to measure prostate cancer lesions could aid diagnosis and treatment
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men, and almost 300,000 individuals are diagnosed with it each year in the U.S. To develop a consistent method of estimating prostate cancer size, which can help clinicians ...
Oct 29, 2024
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Access to patient questionnaire improves spine MRI diagnosis, finds study
Knowing a patient's symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a study published in Radiology.
Oct 29, 2024
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Establishing ventricular and left atrial size and function in normal Chinese adults via 3D echocardiography
A new study published in Frontiers of Medicine focuses on establishing normative values for left ventricular (LV) and left atrial (LA) size and function using three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) among healthy Han Chinese ...
Oct 29, 2024
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New technique allows technicolor imaging of degenerative joint disease
Medical imaging is no longer in Kansas, Toto, as a team led by Penn State researchers brings traditional black and white diagnostic images of X-rays and traditional CT scans into technicolor. The researchers developed novel ...
Oct 28, 2024
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Researchers develop collaborative framework using unlabeled data for enhanced semi-supervised MRI segmentation
Researchers from Peking University Third Hospital have developed a novel collaborative framework that integrates various semi-supervised learning techniques to enhance MRI segmentation using unlabeled data. This new approach, ...
Oct 28, 2024
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Smart ultrasound pulse train accurately visualizes fast blood flow
Charlotte Nawijn, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Twente, has developed a new technique to improve ultrasound images of blood flow. Using a smart ultrasound pulse train, she reduced noise in contrast ultrasound images. ...
Oct 25, 2024
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AI-based anomaly detection offers more efficient clinical-grade histopathological diagnostics
Already used in many areas of medicine, AI has tremendous potential when it comes to helping doctors diagnose diseases with the help of imaging data. However, AI models have to be trained with large numbers of examples, which ...
Oct 24, 2024
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