ISMRM: Consideration of AI ethics in healthcare is of prime importance

May 9, 2024

SINGAPORE - AI in healthcare has many benefits – not least of which is the potential to mitigate care discrepancies. But it also carries risks, such as the use of data to create AI tools that don't accurately reflect patient diversity.

Mark Schweitzer, MD, vice president of Health Affairs for Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, delivered a lecture May 9 at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting in Singapore titled "Ethical Issues in MRI AI Research." AuntMinnie.com spoke with Schweitzer about the ethics of AI and how he would advise radiology departments to make the best use of the technology.

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ISMRM: MRI useful in predicting tumor response in breast cancer patients

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A 47-year-old female patient with chronic pain in the left lower back/buttock with unknown cause. PET demonstrated focally increased FDG uptake at the left facet L3-4 l. MRI shows minimal fluid, but no edema. Follow-up PET-MRI after six months shows a similar pattern. The patient is on the waiting list for targeted facet joint infiltration (typically not covered by insurance in the Netherlands).

ISMRM: PET/MRI shows promise identifying musculoskeletal ‘pain generators’

May 9, 2024

$Sagittal view of the scapula showing a comminuted fracture of the inferior portion, imaged with computed tomography (CT, left image) and by an ultrashort time of echo (UTE) sequence (right image) on MRI. Both images appear similar, with an identical representation of the fracture, illustrating the potential of UTE to create CT-like images and suggesting that both imaging modalities could be interchangeable in clinical practice. All images and captions courtesy of Prof. Benjamin Fritz, MD.$