Using Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures on Plain Radiographs.

Osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF) is a risk factor for morbidity and mortality in elderly population, and accurate diagnosis is important for improving treatment outcomes. OVF diagnosis suffers from high misdiagnosis and underdiagnosis rates, as well as high workload. Deep learning methods applied to plain radiographs, a simple, fast, and inexpensive examination, might solve this problem.

Comparison of Chest Radiograph Captions Based on Natural Language Processing vs Completed by Radiologists.

Importance: Artificial intelligence (AI) can interpret abnormal signs in chest radiography (CXR) and generate captions, but a prospective study is needed to examine its practical value.

Objective: To prospectively compare natural language processing (NLP)-generated CXR captions and the diagnostic findings of radiologists.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A multicenter diagnostic study was conducted.

Development and multicenter validation of chest X-ray radiography interpretations based on natural language processing.

Background: Artificial intelligence can assist in interpreting chest X-ray radiography (CXR) data, but large datasets require efficient image annotation. The purpose of this study is to extract CXR labels from diagnostic reports based on natural language processing, train convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and evaluate the classification performance of CNN using CXR data from multiple centers.

Methods: We collected the CXR images and corresponding radiology reports of 74,082 subjects as the training dataset.

[Design and application of regional PACS based on centralized storage model].

Through integration of medical imaging resources of 12 community hospitals in the region, a community hospital diagnostic image center was established in 6th hospital. This paper describes the design of the structure and mode of data storage of regional PACS system and the establishment of a database of medical imaging, through which the medical imaging diagnostic level in the community was improved significantly. Through the application of regional PACS system, medical resource was saved and patient treatment facilitated.

Hand-Schüller-Christian disease and Erdheim-Chester disease: coexistence and discrepancy.

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) and Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) share similar clinical features and mechanisms. In very rare circumstances, the two diseases coexist in the same patient. Here we report such a patient, who was first diagnosed with Hand-Schüller-Christian disease (HSC), a type of LCH.

[Establishment and application of DR automatic system based on DICOM3.0 BPE].

This paper introduces a new application of PACS in our hospital. Through the integration of PACS, HIS and RIS, digital transformation is made in every step. The functional modules of Body Parts Examined in DICOM is set and good link between PACS and DR is made.

Plating osteosynthesis of mid-distal humeral shaft fractures: minimally invasive versus conventional open reduction technique.

Results of two methods, conventional open reduction-internal plating and minimally invasive plating osteosynthesis (MIPO), in the treatment of mid-distal humeral shaft fractures were compared. Thirty-three patients were retrospectively analysed and divided into two groups. Group A (n = 17) patients were treated by MIPO and group B (n = 16) by conventional plating.