Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
Cynthia Rudin, PhD, is a highly regarded computer scientist who’s been eyeing the advance of artificial intelligence into society with equal parts enthusiasm and concern.
By now it’s a difficult-to-dispute likelihood: AI won’t replace doctors making diagnoses, but doctors who use AI will displace doctors who don’t use AI. The hypothesis gets a fresh airing out from the vantage point of the general public.
The British Heart Foundation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre at Glasgow University in Scotland has ordered a Magnetom Verio 3T MRI scanner from Siemens Healthcare.
Computer-aided kinetic information can help significantly in distinguishing benign from malignant suspicious breast lesions on MRI, according to a study in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. These findings support the American College of Radiology (ACR) BI-RADS Breast MRI Lexicon recommendation to report the worst looking kinetic curve.
Wayne State University in Detroit has received nearly $18 million in research grants under the federal governments American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 program.
Research published in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons challenges the routine use of MRI as a means to improve surgical outcomes in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Investigators found that women diagnosed with breast cancer who received an MRI were more likely to undergo a mastectomy than breast conserving therapy, and may face delays in treatment.
Garnette Sutherland, MD, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-supported scientist and surgeon at the University of Calgary in Alberta, has developed a computerized surgical system that combines MRI and robotics.
Uterine fibroid embolization is highlighted as an appropriate treatment for women in a clinical therapeutics article in the Aug. 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
