Dear Ultrasound Insider,
While most research activities for ultrasound computer-aided detection (CAD) technology have focused on breast applications, a team of Japanese researchers is eyeing CAD's potential role in differentiating focal liver lesions.
In a presentation at the 2010 RSNA meeting in Chicago earlier this month, a team from Kumamoto University shared data showing how its ultrasound CAD algorithm improved the performance of all seven readers in characterizing focal liver lesions on dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasound studies.
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In other ultrasound coverage from the RSNA meeting, sonoelastography is showing promise for predicting whether patients with ductal carcinoma in situ have an invasive form of the disease. For the details, click here.
Also, musculoskeletal ultrasound utilization rose nearly 300% between 2000 and 2008. And it's not radiologists who are driving the surge. Which specialty is the biggest contributor to the growth? Click here to find out.
And, an automated breast ultrasound system was shown to offer reproducible performance for localizing, characterizing, and sizing breast masses.
In other news featured this month in your Ultrasound Digital Community, intravascular ultrasound may help monitor the effects of statin on plaque. And researchers from Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands believe that endosonography has a critical role to play in staging lung cancer.
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