J Imaging Inform Med
April 2024
Patella alta (PA) and patella baja (PB) affect 1-2% of the world population, but are often underreported, leading to potential complications like osteoarthritis. The Insall-Salvati ratio (ISR) is commonly used to diagnose patellar height abnormalities. Artificial intelligence (AI) keypoint models show promising accuracy in measuring and detecting these abnormalities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAgenesis of the long head of biceps tendon (LHBT) is a congenital anomaly not commonly reported in the literature, and bilateral absence of the LHBT is even more rare. Most cases of LHBT agenesis are found incidentally at arthroscopy or are diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging after a history of insidious shoulder pain or anterior shoulder instability. We present the magnetic resonance imaging findings of bilateral congenital absence of the LHBT in a 37-year-old male with Silver-Russell syndrome who presented with progressive, bilateral anterior shoulder pain after failing conservative treatment strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSemin Musculoskelet Radiol
February 2020
The radiology practice has access to a wealth of data in the radiologist information system, dictation reports, and electronic health records. Although many artificial intelligence applications in radiology have focused on computer vision and the interpretive use cases, many opportunities exist to enhance the radiologist's value proposition through business analytics. This article explores how AI lends an analytical lens to the radiology practice to create value.
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October 2021
Introduction: The purpose of this study is to examine the associations between hip and acetabular morphology, clinical and demographic patient factors, and acetabular labral tear location in young adults.
Materials And Methods: This study was reviewed by the local Institutional Review Board. The hip magnetic resonance imaging arthrograms from 100 young adult patients (aged 18-35 years) who underwent hip arthroscopy within 1 month of the arthrogram were reviewed.
Background: Myxoid tumors pose diagnostic challenges for radiologists and pathologists. All myxoid tumors can be differentiated from each other using fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) or immunohistochemical markers, except for myxomas and myxofibrosarcomas. Myxomas and myxofibrosarcomas are rare tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Radiology reports, although written primarily for healthcare providers, are read increasingly by patients and their family. This study sought to assess the readability of radiology reports.
Materials And Methods: From 108,228 consecutive radiology reports from a large US health system, we excluded duplicate reports, reports of research exams, and reports with missing data.
Wikipedia-an open-access online encyclopedia-contains a large number of medically relevant articles and images that may help supplement glossaries of radiology terms. We sought to determine the extent to which concepts from a large online radiology glossary developed as part of the Patient-Oriented Radiology Reporter (PORTER) initiative could be mapped to relevant Wikipedia web pages and images using automated or semi-automated approaches. The glossary included 4090 concepts with their definitions; the concept's preferred name and lexical variants, such as plurals, adjectival forms, synonyms, and abbreviations, yielded a total of 13,030 terms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Radiology reports can be difficult for a layperson to understand. MedlinePlus, a patient-oriented reference from the National Library of Medicine, may offer limited coverage of radiology report concepts. RadLex provides an extensive radiology vocabulary but may be ill suited to help patients understand radiology reports.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 40-year-old man presented with a large and painful right foot mass. The patient reported a history of a recurrent right foot mass treated elsewhere with 3 prior surgical excisions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn 18-year-old man was referred to the authors' institution's thoracic cancer specialists for further consultation after abnormal findings were seen on chest radiograph.
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August 2014
The pediatric interventional radiology community has worked diligently in recent years through education and the use of technology to incorporate numerous dose-reduction strategies. This article seeks to describe different strategies where we can significantly lower the dose to the pediatric patient undergoing a diagnostic or therapeutic image-guided procedure and, subsequently, lower the dose several fold to the staff and ourselves in the process. These strategies start with patient selection, dose awareness and monitoring, shielding, fluoroscopic techniques, and collimation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThymidine analogs (TAs) are synthetic nucleosides that incorporate into newly synthesized DNA. Halogenated pyrimidines (HPs), such as bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), are a class of TAs that can be detected with antibodies and are commonly used for birthdating individual cells and for assessing the proliferative index of cell populations. It is well established that HPs can act as radiosensitizers when incorporated into DNA chains, but they are generally believed not to impair normal cell function in the absence of secondary stressors.
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