Prognostic value of coronary artery calcium scoring in patients with non-small cell lung cancer using initial staging computed tomography.

Background: Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) comprising 85% of cases. Due to the lack of early clinical signs, metastasis often occurs before diagnosis, impacting treatment and prognosis. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a common comorbidity in lung cancer patients, with shared risk factors exacerbating outcomes.

The effects of gaze-display feedback on medical students' self-monitoring and learning in radiology.

Self-monitoring is essential for effectively regulating learning, but difficult in visual diagnostic tasks such as radiograph interpretation. Eye-tracking technology can visualize viewing behavior in gaze displays, thereby providing information about visual search and decision-making. We hypothesized that individually adaptive gaze-display feedback improves posttest performance and self-monitoring of medical students who learn to detect nodules in radiographs.

Taking a second look and zooming out: does this help with abnormality detection in chest radiography?

Purpose: Diagnostic errors are common in radiology. The gestalt impression of an image refers to the rapid holistic understanding one formulates about an image and may facilitate improved diagnostic accuracy. The ability to generate a gestalt impression is typically acquired over time and is generally not explicitly taught.

Perceptual training and teaching medical students how to window and level chest radiographs.

Purpose: Perceptual errors account for a significant percent of errors in radiology. Reasons for failure to identify significant lesions are partially due to suboptimal differences in image contrast. The goal of this study is to determine if teaching trainees how to adjust image contrast, window, and level helps trainees identify pulmonary nodules on chest radiographs (CXRs).