Dear AuntMinnie Member,
Batch-reading is generally accepted as the most efficient way to read screening mammograms, but what's the right number of cases to include in each batch? U.K. researchers offer some guidance in a new article published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers from the University of Warwick wanted to investigate whether radiologists saw a decline in their interpretation performance as they read more cases. They also wanted to see whether mixing up the order in which mammograms were double-read -- which is the standard in the U.K. -- resulted in higher sensitivity.
They found a sweet spot for mammography batch-reading of around 35 cases. But how did changing the order of cases affect radiologist performance? Find out by clicking here.
Cardiac MRI beats SPECT
Score another point for cardiac MRI. The modality proved to be more accurate in predicting which patients would experience serious cardiac events in another study by U.K. researchers.
A group from the University of Leeds compared cardiac MRI with myocardial perfusion imaging SPECT for determining which patients would experience major adverse cardiac events over a five-year follow-up period. Cardiac MRI was more accurate, both in single-variable analysis and when cardiovascular risk factors were entered into the equation. Learn more by clicking here.
For another article in our MRI Community, click here to learn how researchers from George Washington University used functional MRI to detect a biomarker that could help guide treatment for boys with autism. And click here to find out why a well-known executive in the virtual reality space left a comfortable job at Facebook to join a start-up that hopes to develop wearable MRI technology.
Those stories and more are in our MRI Community, at mri.auntminnie.com.
Pregnancy after UFE
Finally, visit our AuntMinnie Middle East special section for a new article by radiologists from the United Arab Emirates, who present their research on how women who underwent uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) were able to get pregnant after the procedure. Learn more by clicking here, or visit the section at middleeast.auntminnie.com.
