Dear AuntMinnie Member,
It's the moment you've been waiting for all summer: The list of Minnies candidates is now available!
We've taken your nominations to assemble a list of 201 candidates in 14 categories, running the gamut from Most Influential Radiology Researcher to Best Radiology Mobile App. In between, you'll find categories covering medical imaging devices, software, and educators, along with Scientific Paper of the Year and Most Significant News Event in Radiology.
Voting on the Minnies candidates will be conducted by our expert panel of radiology luminaries over the next six weeks. In the semifinal round of voting, two finalists will be selected for each category, to be followed by a final round of voting, with the winners announced in October. You can view all of the Minnies candidates at minnies.auntminnie.com.
We are also repeating our popular Best Radiology Image competition from last year, which gives you the opportunity to vote for your favorite image by liking it on our Facebook page. The winner will be the image that gets the most "likes" from our members.
Thanks to everyone who submitted nominations!
CAD for the coronaries
The explosion of data in coronary CT angiography (CCTA) scans has radiologists scrambling for new tools to interpret massive image sets. Computer-aided detection (CAD) is one such tool, but some radiologists would like to have more options beyond what's available with commercially available solutions.
The problem is that it can be hard -- if not impossible -- to work with the data that are typically output from advanced visualization workstations. Enter researchers from the University of Michigan, who developed their own solution for segmenting the coronary arteries, a key step before CAD can be applied to CCTA images.
The algorithm they developed matched up well with the performance of a team of three radiologists who manually segmented arteries. The group is also working on its own CAD scheme. Learn more about their work by clicking here, or visit our Advanced Visualization Digital Community at av.auntminnie.com.
Radiologists and job flexibility
Much discussion has taken place recently about the health of the job market for radiologists. A new study in our Imaging Leaders Digital Community underscores that the market is indeed flat, and the researchers advise that radiologists exercise flexibility in their career plans. Learn more by clicking here.
Also, click here to check out a new survey of radiologist compensation that found the median salary for noninterventional radiologists to be nearly $500,000 a year. Does that sound right to you? Sound off in our Forums.
