Samsung and Bracco sign memorandum of understanding
Samsung Electronics subsidiary Samsung Medison and Bracco Imaging have established an agreement to develop and market ultrasound devices and contrast agents.
The companies recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at ECR 2024 in Vienna and are considering collaborative research to develop protocols for high-frequency and super-resolution imaging for diagnostic purposes. Global marketing activities will be focused on healthcare provider education and joint participation in strategic events.
In addition, Bracco's quantitative diagnostic analysis software will be integrated with Samsung Medison's diagnostic ultras...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 20, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Merit launches new micro-access system
Merit Medical Systems has launched its Micro ACE Advanced Micro-Access System designed for use in interventional procedures to diagnose and open narrowed blood vessels.
The Micro ACE system is the latest innovation in Merit’s vascular portfolio, which includes a range of percutaneous access and closure devices. The new device balances stiffness and resiliency and is designed to achieve micro-access in a wide range of vascular anatomies, Merit said.
The company added that it intends to file Micro ACE for clearance in Europe. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
RSNA ’s'Radiology Advances' journal goes live
Radiology Advances, the first exclusively open-access journal of the RSNA, published its first articles on March 19.The journal will include a broad spectrum of international radiology research with a focus on emerging topics, cross-cutting research, and innovation the RSNA said. Susanna Lee, MD, PhD, chief of women’s imaging and officer of mentored research at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the editor.Radiology Advances is free and available exclusively online and will offer continuous publication, featuring primarily content on technical innovations, translational research, clinical trials, and systematic reviews i...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
FDA clears inHeart ’s digital twin of the heart
France-based medical device developer inHeart has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its AI-driven digital twin of the heart.
The company’s AI software module offers interactive 3D models of the heart generated by AI that analyzes preprocedural CT or MR images. The technology has been proven useful in preplanning ventricular tachycardia ablations, a treatment for a type of irregular heartbeat, the company said.
While the software has been commercially available to clinicians in Europe, FDA clearance now allows inHEART to market the product to hospitals across the U.S. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Spectral AI receives $1M investment
Dallas-based spectral imaging device developer Spectral AI received a $1 million investment to support its recently formed subsidiary, Spectral IP.
The company’s lead product, the DeepView wound imaging system, uses multispectral imaging and AI to provide an immediate wound healing prediction to clinicians with information that is not visible to the human eye.
With the investment, Spectral IP will focus on advancing intellectual property in the broader AI ecosystem through acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and collaborations with AI technology providers, healthcare institutions, and research organizations, the comp...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
AI model predicts 5-year breast cancer risk from mammogram data
An AI model developed by Duke University researchers can predict five-year breast cancer risk from mammograms, a study published March 19 in Radiology found.
A team led by Mark Donnelly from the Durham, N.C.-based university found that their deep learning-based algorithm, a simplified offshoot of Mirai, performed well in predicting cancer risk by evaluating breast asymmetry features on mammograms.
“We hope that this [model] will enable some of those personalized screening strategies to reduce the load on patients and radiologists,” Donnelly told AuntMinnie.com.
While attending regular screening mammogram appointment...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Womens Imaging Advanced Visualization Source Type: news
Podcast: Are current radiology AI offerings addressing practice needs?
AuntMinnie.com · Keeping Up With The Radiologists - Episode 3: AI in radiology, build, buy, neither
In this episode of the "Keeping Up With the Radiologists" podcast series brought to you by AuntMinnie.com in collaboration with Penn Radiology, Saurabh (Harry) Jha, MD; Mitchell Schnall, MD, PhD; Tessa Cook, MD, PhD; and Chuck Kahn, MD, address the shortcomings of AI in radiology in a spirited discussion.
Prashant Warier, PhD, co-founder and CEO of AI software developer QureAI, fields the brunt of the radiologists' constructive criticisms. The temperature rises a little in this episode. Like other medical imaging AI compa...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: Imaging Informatics Practice Management Artificial Intelligence Podcasts Source Type: news
Women with AI knowledge more willing to be in AI imaging studies
Women with at least some knowledge about AI’s use in breast imaging are more willing to participate in studies using the technology, according to survey results published March 15 in the European Journal of Radiology.
Researchers led by Åsne Sørlien Holen from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo found that over three out of five women and over half of women are willing to participate in studies using AI for decision support or triaging, respectively. However, the women also emphasized that they prefer having human readers involved too.
“Targeted information and increased public knowledge of AI could h...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
GEHC releases ultrasound segmentation AI research model
GE HealthCare (GEHC) has released an ultrasound segmentation AI research model called SonoSam Track that incorporates Nvidia technology.
SonoSam Track allows users to segment anatomy and lesions on ultrasound images, according to GEHC. It requires only two to six clicks for segmentation, a capability made possible by the use of Nvidia TensorRT software.
Foundation and generative AI models "could play a crucial role by enabling swift adaptation to various diseases, facilitating screening, early detection, tracking progression, and identifying non-invasive biomarkers with minimal training requirements, such as zero-shot or...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
The PACSman Pontificates: Dog tired after HIMSS 2024
Michael J. Cannavo.Lying in bed the night after my visit to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2024 meeting in Orlando with my legs moving like Elvis in concert and my kidneys on overdrive from all the water I drank trying to stay hydrated, I heard the music from the movie Chariots of Fire running through my head.
I looked it up this morning and understood why. “This is the story of two men who run ... not to run ... but to prove something to the world. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals.” That pretty much summarizes how I felt after a full day walking the exhibit hall ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Michael J. Cannavo Tags: Enterprise Imaging Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
CTPA rates increase among pregnant women
The use rate of CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) has increased among pregnant women -- but outcomes from these studies are often negative, researchers have reported.
A team led by Sameer Goyal, MD, of Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York, discovered that the rate of CTPA exams for PE among pregnant patients increased by more than 70% over a 10-year time period without a simultaneous increase in positive findings -- results that underscore the importance of assessing the risk of radiation exposure in this group. The study findings were published March 18 in the Journal of the A...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Industry News Ob/Gyn Source Type: news
Lunit inks two European supply contracts
Lunit has inked two European contracts to provide AI-driven software for chest x-ray and breast imaging.
The company has secured a supply contract with TeleDiag in France and the Portuguese League Against Cancer, it said. TeleDiag is France's largest teleradiology group; it will use Lunit's Insight CXR, Lunit said. The Portuguese League Against Cancer will use Lunit's Insight MMG to analyze 100,000 mammograms each year over the next three, according to the firm.
The new contracts follow two Lunit signed last week with distributors in East and Southeast Asia. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Medic Vision secures distribution contract with Mumbai, India firm
Medic Vision Imaging Solutions has inked a distribution contract for its AI-driven MRI image enhancement software with a Mumbai, India-based company.
Equipment supplier Akarui Solutions will distribute Medic Vision's iQMR software, which speeds MRI scans by 40%, according to the firm. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Siemens Healthineers develops cinematic reality app
Siemens Healthineers has developed a cinematic reality app that enables "realistic renderings of human anatomy," it said.
The company's Cinematic Reality app is designed for Apple Vision Pro and allows users to view interactive holograms of the human body taken from medical scans, according to the firm. It could help with surgical planning and medical and patient education, Siemens noted.
Siemens highlighted the app at the recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando. It is a prototype and not yet available for commercial use. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Imaging Informatics Industry News Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
Training technique in AI helps preserve patient privacy
The privacy of patient data in AI models trained on chest x-rays can be guaranteed – importantly, without significantly reducing the accuracy of models on large “real-world” data sets, according to a study published March 14 in Communications Medicine.
A team in Germany used an approach called “differential privacy” when training large-scale AI models and then evaluated its effects on model performance. They found high accuracy was attainable, despite the stringent privacy guarantees, noted lead authors and PhD students Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh, of University Hospital RWTH Aachen, and Alexander Ziller, of the Tech...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 18, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: CT Digital X-Ray Source Type: news
