Blockchain Technology: Overview and Applications in Radiology.

Blockchain technology (BCT) enables the building of a distributed decentralized network that securely stores and exchanges unchangeable data, controlled by individual users. In healthcare, BCT may help streamline interoperability and information transmission while guaranteeing medical record authenticity and safeguarding patient privacy. Possible applications in radiology include patient-controlled image sharing, facilitation of multiinstitutional research, and artificial intelligence integration.

Geometrical Factors Affect Wall Shear Stress in Saccular Aneurysms of the Infrarenal Abdominal Aorta.

Background: Low wall shear stress (WSS) is predictive of aortic aneurysm growth and rupture. Yet, estimating WSS in a clinical setting is impractical, whereas measuring aneurysm geometry is feasible. This study investigates the association between saccular aneurysm geometry of the infrarenal aorta and WSS.

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Optimize the Care of Peripheral Artery Disease Patients.

Peripheral artery disease is a major atherosclerotic disease that is associated with poor outcomes such as limb loss, cardiovascular morbidity, and death. Artificial intelligence (AI) has seen increasing integration in medicine, and its various applications can optimize the care of peripheral artery disease (PAD) patients in diagnosis, predicting patient outcomes, and imaging interpretation. In this review, we introduce various AI applications such as natural language processing, supervised machine learning, and deep learning, and we analyze the current literature in which these algorithms have been applied to PAD.

Medical Management of Traumatic Vertebral Artery Injury Is Safe Regardless of the Severity of Injury.

Background: Management of traumatic vertebral artery injury (VAI) remains under debate. Current consensus reserves surgical or endovascular management for high-grade injury in order to prevent stroke. We sought to evaluate the factors that influence posterior fossa stroke outcomes following traumatic VAI.