Lung Imaging

News and new technology innovations concerning how imaging technology for the lungs. This includes computed tomography (CT), X-ray and ultrasound imaging of the lungs to diagnose and monitor treatment for lung cancer, COPD, pulmonary embolism (PE), pneumonia, tuberculosis and COVID-19 can be found on this channel.

SIR considers image-guided thermal ablation to be an acceptable treatment option for patients with inoperable Stage I NSCLC, those with recurrent NSCLC, as well as patients with metastatic lung disease

News | Lung Imaging

SIR Publishes Position Statement on Percutaneous Lung Ablation

August 2, 2021 — The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) issued a new position statement on percutaneous lung ...

August 02, 2021

Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 107th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, the world’s largest annual radiology forum, to be held at McCormick Place Chicago, Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2021

News | RSNA

Registration Now Open for RSNA21

July 21, 2021 — Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 107th Scientific Assembly ...

July 21, 2021

Nearly one quarter of deaths from lung cancer could be avoided in high-risk populations through the adoption of targeted screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans, as based on the results of the NELSON study.

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Nearly 25% of Deaths From Lung Cancer Could Be Avoided in High-risk Populations Through Targeted Lung Cancer Screening Worldwide

July 11, 2021 — The report ‘Lung Cancer Screening: The Cost of Inaction’ shows that lung cancer screening presents a ...

July 11, 2021

Now a new study from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) highlights the impact that structural racism and residential segregation has on NSCLC outcomes.

News | Lung Imaging

Racism and Segregation Associated with Advanced Stage Lung Cancers Among Blacks

June 29, 2021 — Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) ...

June 29, 2021

Patients with primary lung cancer detected using low-dose computed tomography screening are at reduced risk of developing brain metastases after diagnosis, according to a study published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Primary Lung Cancers Detected by LDCT are at Lower Risk of Brain Metastases

June 25, 2021 — Patients with primary lung cancer detected using low-dose computed tomography screening are at reduced ...

June 25, 2021

$COVID-19 progression over 4 days in a 28-year-old man. This posteroranterior chest X-ray \ shows bilateral multiple peripheral and lower lobe ground glass opacities (GGOs) shown by the arrows. Image courtesy of Margarita Revzin et al.$

News | Artificial Intelligence

Medical AI Models Rely on 'Shortcuts' That Could Lead to Misdiagnosis of COVID-19

June 24, 2021 — Artificial intelligence promises to be a powerful tool for improving the speed and accuracy of medical ...

June 24, 2021

An example of a COVID-19 pneumonia of a chest CT scan. The COVID appears as white ground glass opacities (GGOs) in the lungs. Normal lungs on CT should appear black.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

RSNA Announces Funding Program for MIDRC Data Contributors

June 23, 2021 — The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is inviting proposals from researchers for funding ...

June 23, 2021

Positron emission tomography (PET) using a 68Ga-labeled fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI) can noninvasively identify and monitor pulmonary fibrosis, according to research presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2021 Annual Meeting.

News | PET-CT

Radiotracer Effective for Detection and Assessment of Lung Fibrosis

June 14, 2021 — Positron emission tomography (PET) using a 68Ga-labeled fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI) ...

June 14, 2021

An abbreviated lung ultrasound protocol can efficiently determine presence of lung congestion in patients receiving hemodialysis and help expedite care. Chart courtesy of Reisinger et al, AJKD 2021

News | Lung Imaging

Lung Ultrasound Can Efficiently Diagnose Volume Overload in Hemodialysis Patients

June 4, 2021 — Pulmonary congestion owing to fluid overload is common among patients with kidney failure on hemodialysis ...

June 04, 2021

Cina Chest is part of Avicenna’s CINA family of AI tools that support the treatment of emergencies, including CINA HEAD, its FDA-cleared and CE-Marked solution that supports the detection and triage of stroke and neurovascular emergencies.

News | Artificial Intelligence

AI Triage Solution for Deadly Vascular Conditions Receives FDA Clearance and CE Mark

June 3, 2021 — Medical imaging AI specialist Avicenna.AI announced that it has received certification in the United ...

June 03, 2021

Swiftness is essential when treating lung cancer, the second most common type of cancer in the U.S. and the country's leading cause of cancer deaths.

News | Lung Imaging

Delaying Lung Cancer Surgery Associated with Higher Risk of Recurrence, Death

June 1, 2021 — Swiftness is essential when treating lung cancer, the second most common type of cancer in the U.S. and ...

June 01, 2021

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is calling on radiologists nationally to respond to a solicitation for public comment from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) about lung cancer screening with low dose computed tomography (LDCT).

News | Lung Imaging

ACR Urges Radiologists to Provide Input to CMS Lung Cancer Screening Coverage Analysis

May 20, 2021 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) is calling on radiologists nationally to respond to a ...

May 20, 2021

(A) 70-year-old woman with pulmonary adenocarcinoma who underwent sublobar resection without evidence for pLVI. 15-mm solid nodule with irregular margins present in right lower lobe (arrow). No tumor recurrence on 37-month follow-up. (B) 75-year-old man with pulmonary adenocarcinoma who underwent wedge resection that exhibited pLVI. 19-mm solid nodule with irregular margins and peritumoral interstitial thickening (arrowheads) present in right upper lobe. Ipsilateral mediastinal and hilar lymph node metastas

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

CT Promising for Sublobar Resection in Early-stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

May 18, 2021 — According to an open-access Editor's Choice article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) ...

May 18, 2021

The Radiological Society of North American announced that RSNA21 will be back — live — this November in Chicago

News | RSNA

RSNA Annual Meeting Returns to Chicago in 2021

May 17, 2021 — The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) announced today that 10,378 scientific and educational ...

May 17, 2021

According to the CDC, if you are fully vaccinated you can start doing many things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic. Infographic courtesy of the CDC.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

CDC Updates Its Mask Recommendations

May 13, 2021 — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released a new statement relaxing the ...

May 13, 2021

Estimates of excess deaths, defined as the number of persons who have died from all causes, above the expected number of deaths for a given place and time, can provide a comprehensive account of mortality likely related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including deaths that are both directly and indirectly associated with COVID-19.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

CDC Update on Excess Deaths Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 13, 2021 — Estimates of excess deaths, defined as the number of persons who have died from all causes, above the ...

May 13, 2021

Flywheel Exchange, Inc., a leading bioinformatics platform for cloud-scale data management and collaboration, and Imbio, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for medical imaging analysis, have partnered to accelerate lung disease discovery, diagnosis, and treatment in the Life Sciences.

News | Artificial Intelligence

Flywheel and Imbio Partner to Deliver a Comprehensive Solution for Lung Disease Discovery

May 7, 2021 — Flywheel Exchange, Inc., a leading bioinformatics platform for cloud-scale data management and ...

May 07, 2021

Research finds that a commonly used risk-prediction model for lung cancer does not accurately identify high-risk Black patients who could benefit from early screening

News | Lung Imaging

Calculator That Predicts Risk of Lung Cancer Underperforms in Diverse Populations

May 5, 2021 — Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the U.S. and the leading cause of cancer death, with about ...

May 05, 2021

Despite receiving high radiation doses to their tumors, lung cancer patients treated with technique that spares a large part of the esophagus did not develop severe inflammation of the esophagus

News | Lung Imaging

Sculpting Radiation Beam Spares Lung Cancer Patients from Severe, Disabling Complication

April 30, 2021 — For many patients with localized lung cancer (non-small-cell lung carcinoma and small cell lung ...

April 30, 2021

ACR releases 13 new topics and five revised topics to support referring physicians and other providers in making the most appropriate imaging or treatment decisions

News | Radiology Imaging

American College of Radiology Releases New and Updated ACR Appropriateness Criteria

April 26, 2021 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) released an update to its ACR Appropriateness Criteria (ACR AC) ...

April 26, 2021