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Artificial intelligence in medical imaging practice in Africa: a qualitative content analysis study of radiographers’ perspectives

Studies have documented the clinical potentials of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging practice to improving patient care. This study aimed to qualitatively explore the perception of radiographers ...

Authors: William Kwadwo Antwi, Theophilus N. Akudjedu and Benard Ohene Botwe

Differential diagnosis of uncommon prostate diseases: combining mpMRI and clinical information

The differential diagnosis of abnormalities in the prostate is broad, covering common (acinar adenocarcinoma, benign prostatic hyperplasia, chronic prostatitis, hemorrhage, cysts, calcifications, atrophy and f...

Authors: Chao Han, Lina Zhu, Xiang Liu, Shuai Ma, Yi Liu and Xiaoying Wang

Letter to the editor: “Not all biases are bad: equitable and inequitable biases in machine learning and radiology”

Artificial intelligence algorithms are booming in medicine, and the question of biases induced or perpetuated by these tools is a very important topic. There is a greater risk of these biases in radiology, whi...

Authors: Antoine Iannessi, Hubert Beaumont and Anne Sophie Bertrand

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T-staging pulmonary oncology from radiological reports using natural language processing: translating into a multi-language setting

In the era of datafication, it is important that medical data are accurate and structured for multiple applications. Especially data for oncological staging need to be accurate to stage and treat a patient, as...

Authors: J. Martijn Nobel, Sander Puts, Jakob Weiss, Hugo J. W. L. Aerts, Raymond H. Mak, Simon G. F. Robben and André L. A. J. Dekker

Imaging side effects and complications of chemotherapy and radiation therapy: a pictorial review from head to toe

Newer biologic drugs and immunomodulatory agents, as well as more tolerated and effective radiation therapy schemes, have reduced treatment toxicity in oncology patients. However, although imaging assessment o...

Authors: Domenico Albano, Massimo Benenati, Antonio Bruno, Federico Bruno, Marco Calandri, Damiano Caruso, Diletta Cozzi, Riccardo De Robertis, Francesco Gentili, Irene Grazzini, Giuseppe Micci, Anna Palmisano, Carlotta Pessina, Paola Scalise, Federica Vernuccio, Antonio Barile…

CT appearances, patterns of progression, and follow-up of COVID-19: evaluation on thin-section CT

To retrospectively analyze CT appearances and progression pattern of COVID-19 during hospitalization, and analyze imaging findings of follow-up on thin-section CT.

Authors: Chun-Shuang Guan, Zhi-Bin Lv, Jing-Jing Li, Yan-Ni Du, Hui Chen, Tao Cui, Ning Guo, Bu-Dong Chen and Ru-Ming Xie

The preoperative localisation of small parathyroid adenomas improves when adding Tc-99m-Sestamibi SPECT to multiphase contrast-enhanced CT

To investigate the incremental value of Sestamibi SPECT combined with a non-enhanced and contrast-enhanced CT, using SPECT/CT, for the preoperative localisation of small parathyroid adenomas (PTA).

Authors: Patricia Sandqvist, Jacob Farnebo, Inga-Lena Nilsson, Per Grybäck, Anders Sundin and Alejandro Sanchez-Crespo

Challenge of prostate MRI segmentation on T2-weighted images: inter-observer variability and impact of prostate morphology

Accurate prostate zonal segmentation on magnetic resonance images (MRI) is a critical prerequisite for automated prostate cancer detection. We aimed to assess the variability of manual prostate zonal segmentat...

Authors: Sarah Montagne, Dimitri Hamzaoui, Alexandre Allera, Malek Ezziane, Anna Luzurier, Raphaelle Quint, Mehdi Kalai, Nicholas Ayache, Hervé Delingette and Raphaële Renard-Penna

Computed tomography imaging of septic shock. Beyond the cause: the “CT hypoperfusion complex”. A pictorial essay

Septic shock is a medical emergency that represents one of the most important underlying causes for presentation to the Emergency Department. Sepsis is defined as organ dysfunction, life-threatening event caus...

Authors: Marco Di Serafino, Daniela Viscardi, Francesca Iacobellis, Luigi Giugliano, Luigi Barbuto, Gaspare Oliva, Roberto Ronza, Antonio Borzelli, Antonio Raucci, Filomena Pezzullo, Maria Giovanna De Cristofaro and Luigia Romano

Diagnostic methods and therapeutic options of uveal melanoma with emphasis on MR imaging—Part II: treatment indications and complications

Therapy of uveal melanoma aims to preserve the eye and its function and to avoid metastatic dissemination. The treatment choice is difficult and must keep into account several factors; the therapeutic strategy...

Authors: Pietro Valerio Foti, Mario Travali, Renato Farina, Stefano Palmucci, Corrado Spatola, Rocco Luca Emanuele Liardo, Roberto Milazzotto, Luigi Raffaele, Vincenzo Salamone, Rosario Caltabiano, Giuseppe Broggi, Lidia Puzzo, Andrea Russo, Michele Reibaldi, Antonio Longo, Paolo Vigneri…

Diagnostic methods and therapeutic options of uveal melanoma with emphasis on MR imaging—Part I: MR imaging with pathologic correlation and technical considerations

Uveal melanoma is a malignant neoplasm that derives from pigmented melanocytes of the uvea and involves, in order of decreasing prevalence, the choroid, ciliary body and iris. Its prognosis is related to histo...

Authors: Pietro Valerio Foti, Mario Travali, Renato Farina, Stefano Palmucci, Corrado Spatola, Luigi Raffaele, Vincenzo Salamone, Rosario Caltabiano, Giuseppe Broggi, Lidia Puzzo, Andrea Russo, Michele Reibaldi, Antonio Longo, Paolo Vigneri, Teresio Avitabile, Giovani Carlo Ettorre…

Development of a balanced scorecard as a strategic performance measurement system for clinical radiology as a cost center

To develop a goal-oriented indicator system based on the balanced scorecard (BSC) concept, which takes into account the perspectives of the referring physician and patient and emphasizes the focus on the inter...

Authors: Ulf Teichgräber, Rainer Sibbel, Andreas Heinrich and Felix Güttler

CT and MRI radiomics of bone and soft-tissue sarcomas: a systematic review of reproducibility and validation strategies

Feature reproducibility and model validation are two main challenges of radiomics. This study aims to systematically review radiomic feature reproducibility and predictive model validation strategies in studie...

Authors: Salvatore Gitto, Renato Cuocolo, Domenico Albano, Francesco Morelli, Lorenzo Carlo Pescatori, Carmelo Messina, Massimo Imbriaco and Luca Maria Sconfienza

Significance of intra-nodular vessel sign in differentiating benign and malignant pulmonary ground-glass nodules

The presence of pulmonary vessels inside ground-glass nodules (GGNs) of different nature is a very common occurrence. This study aimed to reveal the significance of pulmonary vessels displayed in GGNs in their...

Authors: Bin-jie Fu, Fa-jin Lv, Wang-jia Li, Rui-yu Lin, Yi-neng Zheng and Zhi-gang Chu

Do oncologists prefer subspecialty radiology reports? A quality care study

The main objective was to assess whether CT reports of radiologists subspecialized in oncologic imaging respond better to oncological referrals than reports from general radiologists. The secondary objective w...

Authors: Stefania Rizzo, Maria Del Grande, Vittoria Espeli, Anastasios Stathis, Gabriele Maria Nicolino and Filippo Del Grande

High-risk lesions of the breast: concurrent diagnostic tools and management recommendations

Breast lesions with uncertain malignant behavior, also known as high-risk or B3 lesions, are composed of a variety of pathologies with differing risks of associated malignancy. While open excision was previous...

Authors: Francesca Catanzariti, Daly Avendano, Giuseppe Cicero, Margarita Garza-Montemayor, Carmelo Sofia, Emmanuele Venanzi Rullo, Giorgio Ascenti, Katja Pinker-Domenig and Maria Adele Marino

Reply to the Letter to the editor in response to the Position statement and best practice recommendations on the imaging use of ultrasound from the European Society of Radiology ultrasound subcommittee

Authors: Adrian P. Brady, Dirk-André Clevert and Paul S. Sidhu

Letter to the Editor in response to the Position statement and best practice recommendations on the imaging use of ultrasound from the European Society of Radiology ultrasound subcommittee

This letter to the editor is in response to the consensus statement from the Ultrasound Subcommittee of the European Society of Radiology, the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) Section of Radiology,...

Authors: Chris Kalinka, Jeanette Dickson, Richard Evans, Edward Morris, Pamela Parker, Gill Walton, William Ramsden and Gill Harrison

Low-grade serous epithelial ovarian cancer: a comprehensive review and update for radiologists

Low-grade serous carcinoma (LGSC) is an infrequent subtype of ovarian cancer, corresponding to 5% of epithelial neoplasms. This subtype of ovarian carcinoma characteristically has molecular features, pathogene...

Authors: Sofia Amante, Filipa Santos and Teresa Margarida Cunha

Understanding PI-QUAL for prostate MRI quality: a practical primer for radiologists

Prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of high diagnostic quality is a key determinant for either detection or exclusion of prostate cancer. Adequate high spatial resolution on T2-weighted imaging, good dif...

Authors: Francesco Giganti, Alex Kirkham, Veeru Kasivisvanathan, Marianthi-Vasiliki Papoutsaki, Shonit Punwani, Mark Emberton, Caroline M. Moore and Clare Allen

CT facilitates improved diagnosis of adult intestinal malrotation: a 7-year retrospective study based on 332 cases

To classify adult intestinal malrotation by CT.

Authors: Ziman Xiong, Yaqi Shen, John N. Morelli, Zhen Li, Xuemei Hu and Daoyu Hu

Image-guided percutaneous ablation for the treatment of lung malignancies: current state of the art

Image-guided percutaneous lung ablation has proven to be a valid treatment alternative in patients with early-stage non-small cell lung carcinoma or oligometastatic lung disease. Available ablative modalities ...

Authors: Alfredo Páez-Carpio, Fernando M. Gómez, Gemma Isus Olivé, Pilar Paredes, Tarik Baetens, Enrique Carrero, Marcelo Sánchez and Ivan Vollmer

Many faces of acute bowel ischemia: overview of radiologic staging

Acute bowel ischemia (ABI) can be life threatening with high mortality rate. In spite of the advances made in diagnosis and treatment of ABI, no significant change has occurred in the mortality over the past d...

Authors: Amir H. Davarpanah, Afshar Ghamari Khameneh, Bardia Khosravi, Ali Mir, Hiva Saffar and Amir Reza Radmard

Comparison of the CO-RADS and the RSNA chest CT classification system concerning sensitivity and reliability for the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) recently published a chest CT classification system and Dutch Association for Radiology has announced Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) reporting and data sys...

Authors: Mohamed Abdel-Tawab, Mohammad Abd Alkhalik Basha, Ibrahim A. I. Mohamed, Hamdy M. Ibrahim, Mohamed M. A. Zaitoun, Saeed Bakry Elsayed, Nader E. M. Mahmoud, Ahmed A. El Sammak, Hala Y. Yousef, Sameh Abdelaziz Aly, Hamada M. Khater, Walid Mosallam, Waleed S. Abo Shanab, Ali M. Hendi and Sayed Hassan

Identifying lumbosacral plexus nerve root abnormalities in patients with sciatica using 3T readout-segmented echo-planar diffusion weighted MR neurography

To investigate the accuracy of Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) using the Readout Segmentation of Long Variable Echo-trains (RESOLVE) sequence in detecting lumbosacral nerve abnormalities.

Authors: Osamah M. Abdulaal, Allison McGee, Louise Rainford, Dearbhail O’Driscoll, Marie Galligan, Valerie Reid and Peter J. MacMahon

Mimickers of breast malignancy: imaging findings, pathologic concordance and clinical management

Many benign breast entities have a clinical and imaging presentation that can mimic breast cancer. The purpose of this review is to illustrate the wide spectrum of imaging features that can be associated with ...

Authors: Mary S. Guirguis, Beatriz Adrada, Lumarie Santiago, Rosalind Candelaria and Elsa Arribas

Standardisation of prostate multiparametric MRI across a hospital network: a London experience

National guidelines recommend prostate multiparametric (mp) MRI in men with suspected prostate cancer before biopsy. In this study, we explore prostate mpMRI protocols across 14 London hospitals and determine ...

Authors: Marianthi-Vasiliki Papoutsaki, Clare Allen, Francesco Giganti, David Atkinson, Louise Dickinson, Jacob Goodman, Helen Saunders, Tristan Barrett and Shonit Punwani

Errors, discrepancies and underlying bias in radiology with case examples: a pictorial review

Interpretation differences between radiologists and diagnostic errors are significant issues in daily radiology practice. An awareness of errors and their underlying causes can potentially increase the diagnos...

Authors: Omer Onder, Yasin Yarasir, Aynur Azizova, Gamze Durhan, Mehmet Ruhi Onur and Orhan Macit Ariyurek

Understanding patient needs and gaps in radiology reports through online discussion forum analysis

Our objective is to investigate patient needs and understand information gaps in radiology reports using patient questions that were posted on online discussion forums. We leveraged online question and answer ...

Authors: Mohammad Alarifi, Timothy Patrick, Abdulrahman Jabour, Min Wu and Jake Luo

Correction to: Persistent left superior vena cava: clinical importance and differential diagnoses

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Aynur Azizova, Omer Onder, Sevtap Arslan, Selin Ardali and Tuncay Hazirolan

One of the many faces of COVID-19 infection: an irregularly shaped pulmonary nodule

Authors: Sevtap Arslan and Emre Ünal

Investigating the sub-regions of the superior parietal cortex using functional magnetic resonance imaging connectivity

Traditionally, the superior parietal lobule (SPL) is usually investigated as one region of interest, particularly in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. However, cytoarchitectonic analysis ha...

Authors: Adnan A. S. Alahmadi

Shorter anogenital distance is observed in patients with testicular microlithiasis using magnetic resonance imaging

To investigate the anogenital distance in patients with and without testicular microlithiasis (TML).

Authors: Malene Roland Vils Pedersen, Palle Jørn Osther and Søren Rafael Rafaelsen

Evidence levels in radiology: the insights into imaging approach

Authors: Luis Martí-Bonmatí

Three-dimensional preoperative planning in the weight-bearing state: validation and clinical evaluation

3D preoperative planning of lower limb osteotomies has become increasingly important in light of modern surgical technologies. However, 3D models are usually reconstructed from Computed Tomography data acquire...

Authors: Tabitha Roth, Fabio Carrillo, Matthias Wieczorek, Giulia Ceschi, Hooman Esfandiari, Reto Sutter, Lazaros Vlachopoulos, Wolfgang Wein, Sandro F. Fucentese and Philipp Fürnstahl

Posterior fossa extra-axial variations of medulloblastoma: a pictorial review as a primer for radiologists

Manifestations of an atypical variant of medulloblastoma of the posterior fossa in extra-axial locations have been reported, and key questions concerning its interpretation have been raised previously. This re...

Authors: Abdulaziz M. Al-Sharydah, Abdulrahman Hamad Al-Abdulwahhab, Sari Saleh Al-Suhibani, Wisam M. Al-Issawi, Faisal Al-Zahrani, Faisal Ahmad Katbi, Moath Abdullah Al-Thuneyyan, Tarek Jallul and Faisal Mishaal Alabbas

Microbleeds show a characteristic distribution in cerebral fat embolism

This systematic review aims to test the hypothesis that microbleeds detected by MRI are common and show a characteristic pattern in cerebral fat embolism (CFE). Eighty-four papers involving 140 CFE patients we...

Authors: Omar Giyab, Bendegúz Balogh, Péter Bogner, Orsi Gergely and Arnold Tóth

Synchronous distance teaching of radiology clerkship promotes medical students’ learning and engagement

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted education in myriad ways, primarily leading to an abrupt paradigm shift in teaching and learning practices towards distance learning. The study aims to assess the effectivene...

Authors: Ali Alamer and Fawaz Alharbi

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Optimization of contrast medium volume for abdominal CT in oncologic patients: prospective comparison between fixed and lean body weight-adapted dosing protocols

Patient body size represents the main determinant of parenchymal enhancement and by adjusting the contrast media (CM) dose to patient weight may be a more appropriate approach to avoid a patient over dosage of...

Authors: Damiano Caruso, Elisa Rosati, Nicola Panvini, Marco Rengo, Davide Bellini, Giulia Moltoni, Benedetta Bracci, Elena Lucertini, Marta Zerunian, Michela Polici, Domenico De Santis, Elsa Iannicelli, Paolo Anibaldi, Iacopo Carbone and Andrea Laghi

Computed tomography versus fluoroscopic guided-sacroiliac joint injection: a prospective comparative study

There are limited data discussing long-term pain relief and comparability of different image-guided sacroiliac joint (SIJ) injection. This study compared CT and fluoroscopic-guided SIJ injections regarding sta...

Authors: Ahmed A. A. Bessar, Mohamed M. Arnaout, Mohammad Abd Alkhalik Basha, Shady E. Shaker, Ashraf E. Elsayed and Manar Awad Bessar

Incidental findings in and around the prostate on prostate MRI: a pictorial review

Prostate MRI has seen rapid growth in use in recent years as an advanced diagnostic modality to detect focal areas of clinically significant prostate cancer, to identify an area for targeted biopsy and to guid...

Authors: Janki Trivedi, Tom Sutherland and Mark Page

RECIST 1.1 and lesion selection: How to deal with ambiguity at baseline?

Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST) is still the predominant criteria base for assessing tumor burden in oncology clinical trials. Despite several improvements that followed its first publica...

Authors: Antoine Iannessi, Hubert Beaumont, Yan Liu and Anne-Sophie Bertrand

Emerging role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in Castleman disease: a review

Castleman disease (CD) describes a group of rare hematologic conditions involving lymphadenopathy with characteristic histopathology and a spectrum of clinical abnormalities. CD is divided into localized or un...

Authors: Benjamin Koa, Austin J. Borja, Mahmoud Aly, Sayuri Padmanabhan, Joseph Tran, Vincent Zhang, Chaitanya Rojulpote, Sheila K. Pierson, Mark-Avery Tamakloe, Johnson S. Khor, Thomas J. Werner, David C. Fajgenbaum, Abass Alavi and Mona-Elisabeth Revheim

Differential diagnoses of COVID-19 pneumonia: the current challenge for the radiologist—a pictorial essay

COVID-19 pneumonia represents the most severe pandemic of the twenty-first century and has crucial clinical, social and economical implications. The scientific community has focused attention and resources on ...

Authors: Alessia Guarnera, Pierfrancesco Podda, Elena Santini, Pasquale Paolantonio and Andrea Laghi

Imaging diagnosis of classical and new pneumoconiosis: predominant reticular HRCT pattern

Our understanding of the manifestations of pneumoconioses is evolving in recent years. Associations between novel exposures and diffuse interstitial lung disease have been newly recognized. In advanced asbesto...

Authors: Akira Masanori

Osteoid osteoma: the great mimicker

Osteoid osteoma is a painful, benign and common bone tumor that is prevalent in young adults. The typical clinical presentation consists of pain that becomes worse at night and is relieved by nonsteroidal anti...

Authors: Bruno C. Carneiro, Isabela A. N. Da Cruz, Alípio G. Ormond Filho, Igor P. Silva, Júlio B. Guimarães, Flávio D. Silva, Marcelo A. C. Nico and Xavier M. G. R. G. Stump

Current updates in machine learning in the prediction of therapeutic outcome of hepatocellular carcinoma: what should we know?

With the development of machine learning (ML) algorithms, a growing number of predictive models have been established for predicting the therapeutic outcome of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) afte...

Authors: Zhi-Min Zou, De-Hua Chang, Hui Liu and Yu-Dong Xiao