Missed aneurysm | CEO shooting suspect’s x-ray | AI predicts DCIS recurrence

Dec 13, 2024

Dear AuntMinnie Member,

A complaint from the Florida Department of Health against a Palm Beach, FL, radiologist was the subject of our most highly read story this week. The radiologist had allegedly missed an aneurysm on the CT scan of a 44-year-old man who later died of a brain hemorrhage.

Meanwhile, an article about how the suspect in the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO had posted a spine x-ray on X also drew much interest from our readers.

In other news, an AI algorithm was shown recently to be useful for predicting recurrence in women being treated for ductal carcinoma in situ. Although large language models beat a medical student when solving imaging cases in a quiz, they couldn’t match the performance of junior faculty and an in-training radiologist, researchers have found.

Sustainability issues have been a hot topic lately. A highly viewed story from our RSNA 2024 coverage shared that shutting down angiography systems after 15 minutes of idle time could cut nearly half of their annual energy consumption.

Other popular articles included coverage of research on how functional MRI demonstrates the ways opioid use changes the brain, how a PET radiotracer can visualize immunotherapy response in liver cancer patients, and how well radiofrequency ablation performs in treating toxic thyroid nodules.

See the list below for our top stories from the week.