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The tricorder may be a fictional device from Star Trek, but it's also the inspiration behind a smartphone app being developed by researchers to make it easier and more intuitive for patients to access their imaging studies.
Researchers from the University of South Florida and Moffitt Cancer Center shared progress with their approach in a session at the recent annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). Our coverage is the subject of this issue's Insider Exclusive.
In other news from SIIM 2022, the combination of a machine-learning algorithm and MRI radiomics was found to yield promising results for differentiating between low-grade and high-grade gliomas.
Sales of advanced visualization software had a significant impact on the imaging IT marketplace in the last couple of years. In an interview at SIIM 2022, Amy Thompson of Signify Research discusses the future outlook for these applications as well as other imaging IT software.
Meanwhile, a CT radiomics nomogram can preoperatively predict if a hepatocellular carcinoma patient will have early recurrence following a liver transplant. Also, MRI radiomics is poised to have a significant impact on brain imaging, with advances bringing the concept of virtual biopsies closer to practice, according to a recent study.
In potentially troubling results, researchers from the Mayo Clinic found that images of faces could be reconstructed from brain PET scans and matched by facial recognition software to actual photographs -- at a surprisingly high accuracy rate.
Also, a quantitative ultrasound technique can be highly sensitive for detecting hepatic steatosis. Researchers reported that these ultrasound measurements correlated highly with traditional MRI measurements.
An artificial intelligence (AI)-based image reconstruction algorithm can facilitate sharp reductions in PET scanning time, according to a recent study.
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