The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) are collaborating with the Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR) and MD.ai to host a Machine Learning Challenge on Pneumothorax Detection and Localization on Kaggle. The challenge will use augmented annotations on the public chest radiograph dataset from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The augmented annotations were created by radiologists from SIIM and STR using a commercial web-based tool from MD.ai, and follow the ACR Data Science Institute’s structured artificial intelligence (AI) use case for pneumothorax detection.

Artificial Intelligence In It For Long-Haul, Says Radiology Leader

RefleXion Medical recently announced the opening of its new manufacturing facility at its headquarters in Hayward, Calif. The 50,000 square-foot facility includes six state-of-the-art linear accelerator testing vaults for the RefleXion machine and will house manufacturing, quality control, and a customer education center with a radiation oncology suite for clinical training.

The ASRT Foundation and Canon Medical Systems are now accepting applications for the 2019 Safety FiRsT grant program, an initiative that provides funds for radiologic technologists to improve workplace safety measures.

Lunit announced an abstract presentation of its artificial intelligence (AI) precision medicine research portfolio at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2019, held May 31 – June 4 in Chicago. The accepted abstract highlights the feasibility of AI-based biomarkers in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, based on the H&E analysis that predicts response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI).

May 31, 2019 — Intelerad Medical Systems announced a $75 million investment in research and development (R&D) to expand its solutions portfolio, with an emphasis on cloud technology and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.

It is not surprising that pressure is mounting for medical providers to improve the care outcomes of their patients. Also unsurprising is that these same providers are being pressured to do so while keeping a lid on expenses.

This juxtaposition marks a time of enormous opportunity for both the providers of healthcare and the vendors of healthcare equipment. But this opportunity only can be realized if vendors partner with providers to provide operational support in the crucial phase of transformation that we are now in.


In recent years there has been a lot of debate about the role of the mammographer with regard to examining the patient’s breast. There are in fact two types of breast examination — the clinical breast examination (CBE) and the breast self-examination (BSE).



The fingerprints of value-added medicine were all over products and works-in-progress on the exhibit floor of the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology (ACC).


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