Empowering Radiographers: A Call for Integrated AI Training in University Curricula.

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) applications are rapidly advancing in the field of medical imaging. This study is aimed at investigating the perception and knowledge of radiographers towards artificial intelligence.

Methods: An online survey employing Google Forms consisting of 20 questions regarding the radiographers' perception of AI.

Reducing ' probably benign ' assessments in normal mammograms: The role of radiologist experience.

Rationale And Objectives: to investigate the relationship between radiologists' experience in reporting mammograms, their caseloads, and the classification of category '3' or 'Probably Benign' on normal mammograms.

Materials And Methods: A total of 92 board-certified radiologists participated. Self-reported parameters related to experience, including age, years since qualifying as a radiologist, years of experience reading mammograms, number of mammograms read per year, and hours spent reading mammograms per week, were documented.

Radiation dose reduction considerations and imaging patterns of ground glass opacities in coronavirus: risk of over exposure in computed tomography.

This article aims to summarize the available data on the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SAR-CoV-2) imaging patterns as well as reducing radiation dose exposure in chest computed tomography (CT) protocols. First, the general aspects of radiation dose in CT and radiation risk are discussed, followed by the effect of changing parameters on image quality. This article attempts to highlight some of the common chest CT signs that radiologists and emergency physicians are likely to encounter.

A systematic review on the current status of adult diagnostic reference levels in head, chest and abdominopelvic Computed Tomography.

Computed tomography (CT) is a routinely employed diagnostic tool for the detection and diagnosis of disease processes. Despite the primary focus of radiation dose reduction and improvements in CT scanners, radiation dose exposure remains an ever-increasing concern. Scanning protocol optimisation relative to body weight and scanner manufacturer still lags behind the diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) that are set on an international scale.

Career caseload predicts interobserver agreement on the final classification of a mammogram.

Introduction: Differences in radiologists' experience can potentially introduce interobserver variability in reading mammograms. This work investigated the effect of radiologists' experience on agreement on mammographic final classification.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study.

Compliance With Radiation Protection Practices Among Radiologists.

Background: Radiologists are at higher risk of adverse health effects due to their occupational radiation exposure; therefore, applying protection techniques is imperative. Studies on radiologists' compliance in this regard are scarce. We aimed to assess compliance with radiation safety practices among radiologists.

One Year Primary Patency of Infrapopliteal Angioplasty Using Drug- Eluting Balloons: Single Center Experience at King Hussein Medical Center.

Objective: Conventional percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) for long lesions in the below-the-knee (BTK) arteries in patients presenting with critical limb ischemia (CLI) has high restenosis rates at 1 year. Our goal is to evaluate whether paclitaxel drug-eluting balloons (DEB) have higher 1 year primary patency rates compared to conventional PTA.

Methods: This is a single-center, prospective, randomized trial that was conducted from June 2013 to December 2015.

Classification of normal screening mammograms is strongly influenced by perceived mammographic breast density.

Introduction: To investigate how breast screen readers classify normal screening cases using descriptors of normal mammographic features and to assess test cases for suitability for a single reading strategy.

Methods: Fifteen breast screen readers interpreted a test set of 29 normal screening cases and classified them by firstly rating their perceived difficulty to reach a 'normal' decision, secondly identifying the cases' salient normal mammographic features and thirdly assessing the cases' suitability for a single reading strategy.

Results: The relationship between the perceived difficulty in making 'normal' decisions and the normal mammographic features was investigated.

Impact of Breast Reader Assessment Strategy on mammographic radiologists' test reading performance.

Introduction: The detection of breast cancer is somewhat limited by human factors, and thus there is a need to improve reader performance. This study assesses whether radiologists who regularly undertake the education in the form of the Breast Reader Assessment Strategy (BREAST) demonstrate any changes in mammography interpretation performance over time.

Methods: In 2011, 2012 and 2013, 14 radiologists independently assessed a year-specific BREAST mammographic test-set.

Markers of good performance in mammography depend on number of annual readings.

Purpose: To explore relationships between reader performance and reader characteristics in mammography for specific radiologist groupings on the basis of annual number of readings.

Materials And Methods: The institutional review board approved the study and waived the need for patient consent to use all images. Readers gave informed consent.

Quantitative measures confirm the inverse relationship between lesion spiculation and detection of breast masses.

Objective: To identify specific mammographic appearances that reduce the mammographic detection of breast cancer.

Materials And Methods: This study received institutional board review approval and all readers gave informed consent. A set of 60 mammograms each consisting of craniocaudal and mediolateral oblique projections were presented to 129 mammogram Breastscreen readers.