As the medical field continues to deal with physician shortages, nonphysician practitioners’ (NPPs) roles in healthcare are growing, and radiology is no exception to this trend. It has long been known that NPPs increase utilisation of radiology services, but new data indicate that they also are increasingly taking on more imaging interpretation responsibilities. A new...

One of the biggest issues in echocardiography is the inconsistency between how sonographers scan patients and make measurements. However, AI might be able to help overcome this variable and make cardiac ultrasound quantification more consistent. This is especially true for novice sonographers using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), where AI is being commercialised.

Staging locally advanced breast cancer patients with 18F-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET-CT detected more distant metastases, and thus reduced the number of patients who received combined modality therapy, compared with conventional staging, a randomised trial showed.

Records in an Australian database indicated that primary care physicians very often order diagnostic imaging for patients with musculoskeletal pain shortly after first seeing them, despite evidence and guidelines that say these scans only rarely improve outcomes.

In patients with head and neck cancer, a strategy to reduce the radiation dose to dysphagia-and aspiration-related structures improved swallowing and other functional outcomes compared with standard intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), according to results from the phase III DARS trial.

A group of computer science researchers have developed their own ChatGPT-based framework for summarising radiology reports. ImpressionGPT leverages the in-context learning abilities of large language models to generate report summaries using domain-specific, individualised data relative to radiology. This approach could reduce report errors while also saving radiologists’ time, experts involved in the model’s development suggested.

Many physicians who treat musculoskeletal disorders are unaware that interventional radiology is a distinct specialty of medicine. That statistic is despite many of these physicians feeling that they have good or excellent knowledge of image-guided procedures, according to data published in Clinical Imaging.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are working on developing measurements that will provide better insight into soft tissue properties visualised on low-field MRI images.

New data published in JAMA Psychiatry argues that MRI brain scans should be routinely included in the initial clinical workups of patients presenting with first-episode psychosis.

Survey Reveals Concerns Among Medical Students about Representation in Interventional Radiology A recent survey conducted across five medical schools in the United States sheds light on the impact of representation on the career choices of medical students, particularly women and those from underrepresented in medicine (URiM) backgrounds, in the field of interventional radiology (IR). Gender...