A pilot study for a non-invasive system for detection of malignancy in canine subcutaneous and cutaneous masses using machine learning.

Introduction: Early diagnosis of cancer enhances treatment planning and improves prognosis. Many masses presenting to veterinary clinics are difficult to diagnose without using invasive, time-consuming, and costly tests. Our objective was to perform a preliminary proof-of-concept for the HT Vista device, a novel artificial intelligence-based thermal imaging system, developed and designed to differentiate benign from malignant, cutaneous and subcutaneous masses in dogs.

Nationwide community based emergency centers reveal scale of hand trauma.

Introduction: This study describes the characteristics of hand trauma treated in community-based emergency centers (CBECs) in Israel. It was hypothesized that the rate of hand trauma, as well as patient and injury characteristics, would differ from a recent study of patients treated in hospital emergency departments (EDs) in Jerusalem.

Methods: Data on all hand injury patients treated at any of the CBECs belonging to a large nationwide chain in 2017 were retrieved from the electronic medical records of the treatment centers, including demographic and clinical characteristics.

Preauthorization of CT and MRI examinations: assessment of a managed care preauthorization program based on the ACR Appropriateness Criteria and the Royal College of Radiology guidelines.

Purpose: To evaluate computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) utilization patterns before and after the implementation of a preauthorization program based on the ACR Appropriateness Criteria((R)) and the guidelines of the Royal College of Radiologists.

Materials And Methods: All CT and MRI requests received at the preauthorization center and CT and MRI examinations actually performed were identified by our health care service's centralized computerized database between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2003. The obligatory preauthorization of CT and MRI requests was established for CT in September 2001 and for MRI in February 2002.

[Outcome of a residency program in radiology for immigrants and other physicians by Maccabi Healthcare Services].

Background: Maccabi Healthcare Services has more than 20 Diagnostic Imaging Clinics in Israel, and many radiologists are needed to perform and interpret the imaging studies. There was a shortage of radiologists willing to work full-time in these clinics. In the late 1980s and early 1990s a large number of immigrants arrived in Israel, some of them radiologists, who were looking for a position at Maccabi.

Mesenteric lymphadenopathy in children examined by US for chronic and/or recurrent abdominal pain.

Background: Children with recurrent abdominal pain often undergo US to confirm or exclude organic disease.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of mesenteric lymphadenopathy on US in these children.

Materials And Methods: We prospectively studied 189 children with recurrent abdominal pain with US of the abdomen, using graded compression.