Deep Learning-Enabled Automated Quality Control for Liver MR Elastography: Initial Results.

Background: Several factors can impair image quality and reliability of liver magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), such as inadequate driver positioning, insufficient wave propagation and patient-related factors.

Purpose: To report initial results on automatic classification of liver MRE image quality using various deep learning (DL) architectures.

Study Type: Retrospective, single center, IRB-approved human study.

Lemann Index for assessing bowel damage in Crohn's disease: a real world study.

Background & Aims: The Lemann Index (LI), an endpoint to measure cumulative structural bowel damage in Crohn's disease (CD), has been recently updated and validated. We applied this to investigate predictors of bowel damage in a real-world cohort.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study (2008-2022) involving two tertiary referral IBD centers in the US.

MR Enterography in Ulcerative Colitis: Beyond Endoscopy.

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that progressively affects mucosa and submuccosa of the colon and rectum in a continual pattern. In comparison, Crohn disease (CD), the other type of IBD, is a chronic transmural inflammatory disorder that can involve any part of the gastrointestinal tract. MR enterography (MRE) has emerged as an important imaging modality for the diagnosis and detection of disease activity and complications in CD, with comparable results to those of endoscopy.

Abbreviated MRI Protocols in the Abdomen and Pelvis.

Abbreviated MRI (AMRI) protocols rely on the acquisition of a limited number of sequences tailored to a specific question. The main objective of AMRI protocols is to reduce exam duration and costs, while maintaining an acceptable diagnostic performance. AMRI is of increasing interest in the radiology community; however, challenges limiting clinical adoption remain.

Celiacomesenteric trunk associated with superior mesenteric artery aneurysm: A case report and review of literature.

In rare cases, the celiac artery and the superior mesenteric artery arise from a common origin known as a common celiacomesenteric trunk. Celiac trunk stenosis or occlusion has been reported to accompany this anatomical aberrancy. Even rarer, are aneurysms associated with this common celiacomesenteric trunk.