Publications by authors named "Jennie Cao"

. Radiation dose and diagnostic image quality are opposing constraints in x-ray computed tomography (CT). Conventional methods do not fully account for organ-level radiation dose and noise when considering radiation risk and clinical task.

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  • The study aims to evaluate how well LI-RADS (Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System) diagnoses liver cancer in patients with non-cirrhotic HCV infection, analyzing data from 66 observations involving adult patients.
  • Results show that while LI-RADS categories like LR-1 and LR-2 had no predictive value, LR-5 demonstrated high sensitivity (74-90%) and specificity (94-100%) for hepatic cellular carcinoma (HCC), making it a reliable indicator.
  • The inter-reader agreement among radiologists was substantial for final assessments, suggesting that LI-RADS can be effectively used for diagnosing malignancies in this patient group with excellent specificity.
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  • The study aimed to evaluate the accuracy, reliability, and readability of responses from three large language models (ChatGPT, Gemini, and Bing) regarding hepatocellular carcinoma, a type of liver cancer.
  • Out of 20 questions posed, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Bing provided varying levels of accuracy (45%, 60%, and 30%, respectively), but only a small percentage of their answers were both accurate and reliable.
  • The language models' responses tended to be complex and difficult to understand, with ChatGPT being the least readable, providing insights into their limitations for medical inquiries.
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Objective: To assess the performance of computed tomography (CT)/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) among patients with non-cirrhotic steatotic liver disease (SLD).

Materials And Methods: This IRB-approved, retrospective study included 119 observations from 77 adult patients (36 women, 41 men; median 64 years) who underwent liver CT or MRI from 2010 to 2023. All patients had histopathologic evidence of SLD without cirrhosis.

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Devices for the gastrointestinal tract are widely available and constantly advancing with less invasive techniques. They play a crucial role in diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and are commonly placed by interventional radiologists, gastroenterologists, and surgeons. These devices frequently appear in imaging studies, which verify their proper placement, identify any complications, or may be incidentally detected.

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Previous studies of the murine Ly49 and human KIR gene clusters implicated competing sense and antisense promoters in the control of variegated gene expression. In the current study, an examination of transcription factor genes defines an abundance of convergent and divergent sense/antisense promoter pairs, suggesting that competing promoters may control cell fate determination. Differentiation of CD34 hematopoietic progenitors in vitro shows that cells with GATA1 antisense transcription have enhanced GATA2 transcription and a mast cell phenotype, whereas cells with GATA2 antisense transcription have increased GATA1 transcripts and an erythroblast phenotype.

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  • The study aims to analyze the growth patterns of untreated pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (panNENs) and how they relate to histopathologic grade and Ki-67 levels.
  • It includes data from 100 panNENs in 95 patients, focusing on imaging results gathered over periods of at least 90 days.
  • The findings reveal that higher-grade panNENs grow significantly faster, with linear growth rates correlating with Ki-67, indicating that growth kinetics can help determine tumor grade.
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The classification of hepatocellular adenomas (HCAs) was updated in 2017 on the basis of genetic and molecular analysis. The purpose of this article was to evaluate features on gadoxetate disodium-enhanced MRI of HCA subtypes on the basis of the 2017 classification and to propose a diagnostic algorithm for determining subtype using these features. This retrospective study included 56 patients (49 women, seven men; mean age, 37 ± 13 [SD] years) with histologically confirmed HCA evaluated by gadoxetate disodium-enhanced MRI from January 2010 to January 2021.

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