Dear AuntMinnie Member,
Our most-clicked story this week reported on new guidelines that cover theranostics for brain tumors developed by a professional imaging society consortium. The group hopes this guidance will improve patient outcomes. Click here for the full story.
The second most popular article covered a study that explored ChatGPT's accuracy for producing differential diagnoses from transcribed radiologic findings. A team from the University of California, Irvine found that ChatGPT-4 had a rate of less than 5% of false statements on cases -- a percentage likely acceptable for most adjunct educational purposes.
In third place this week were results from The MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) report for the fourth quarter of 2024, which found that radiology administrators have very high confidence that imaging will grow as a profit center.
AuntMinnie members also showed interest in our fourth-ranked article of the week, which covered a study that found that Kaiser scoring with contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) improves diagnostic accuracy for breast masses, as well as our fifth, which explored the question of whether elastography can replace conventional ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Readers were also drawn to three pieces of industry news: one regarding Medicare administrative contractor approval for reimbursement of AI-enabled analysis of quantitative coronary topography scans, another on GE HealthCare's launch of a new ultrasound system called Versana Premier, and a third on Hologic's acquisition of diagnostic intrauterine imaging developer Gynesonics.
Finally, the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine will be holding its Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging on October 21 and 22 in Boston, and AuntMinnie.com will be offering a RADCast of the proceedings. Starting on Monday, you can find the RADCast on our home page.
See below for the full list of our top stories of the week:
- New guidelines cover theranostics for brain tumors
- How accurate is ChatGPT for differential diagnoses?
- MICI Q4: Admins very confident that imaging will grow as profit center
- Kaiser scoring with CEM boosts diagnostic accuracy for breast masses
- Could elastography replace conventional ultrasound-guided FNAC?
- Medicare contractors approve reimbursement for AI heart scans
- GEHC launches new ultrasound system
- Hologic to acquire Gynesonics for $350M
- Interobserver agreement modest on ILD diagnosed with CT imaging
- Out-of-pocket imaging costs may delay needed care
- Higher social support tied to more breast cancer screening
- FAPI-PET shows value in staging lung cancer patients
- Ultrasound method detects cellular rejection in liver transplant cases
- Enlitic acquires Laitek
Kate Madden Yee
Senior Editor
AuntMinnie.com
