Feasibility of Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation for Abdominal Wall Endometriosis: A Prospective Pilot Study.

Study Objective: To assess the feasibility of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (PRFA) of anterior abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE) lesions and to describe its efficacy on clinical symptoms and on the volume of the lesion.

Design: Interventional, prospective, noncomparative, phase 1 clinical trial.

Setting: Patients consulting at the multidisciplinary endometriosis expert center at Croix Rousse University Hospital (Hospices Civils de Lyon).

Incidental pulmonary nodules: Natural language processing analysis of radiology reports.

Background: Pulmonary nodules are a common incidental finding on chest Computed Tomography scans (CT), most of the time outside of lung cancer screening (LCS). We aimed to evaluate the number of incidental pulmonary nodules (IPN) found in 1 year in our hospital, as well as the follow-up (FUP) rate and the clinical and radiological features associated with FUP.

Methods: We trained a Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool to identify the transcripts mentioning the presence of a pulmonary nodule, among a large population of patients from a French hospital.

Weakly-supervised learning-based pathology detection and localization in 3D chest CT scans.

Background: Recent advancements in anomaly detection have paved the way for novel radiological reading assistance tools that support the identification of findings, aimed at saving time. The clinical adoption of such applications requires a low rate of false positives while maintaining high sensitivity.

Purpose: In light of recent interest and development in multi pathology identification, we present a novel method, based on a recent contrastive self-supervised approach, for multiple chest-related abnormality identification including low lung density area ("LLDA"), consolidation ("CONS"), nodules ("NOD") and interstitial pattern ("IP").

Association Between Aortic Wall Thrombus and Thromboembolic Events After Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.

Background: Thromboembolic events, particularly strokes, remain a major complication of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Embolic protection devices have failed to show significant clinical benefit in large randomized clinical trials. Aortic wall thrombus (AWT) is often observed on multidetector computed tomography during TAVR work-up, but its prognostic significance is uncertain.