Despite a broad campaign among physician groups to reduce the amount of medical imaging, use rates of various scans have continued to increase in both the U.S. and Ontario, Canada, according to a new study. A recent reacceleration in the growth of imaging concerns researchers because it is widely believed to be overused. The study of more than 135 million imaging exams was conducted by researchers at UC Davis, UC San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente.

Researchers have validated a first-of-its-kind machine learning–based model to evaluate immunohistochemical (IHC) characteristics in patients with suspected thyroid nodules, according to an ahead-of-print article published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR). The research team achieved “excellent performance” for individualized noninvasive prediction of the presence of cytokeratin 19, galectin 3 and thyroperoxidase based upon computed tomography (CT) images.

Philips will showcase its latest cardiac care innovations at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2019, Aug. 31–Sept. 4 in Paris, France. At the congress, Philips is showcasing Release 5.0 of its Epiq CVx cardiology platform for the first time in Europe. The platform includes automated applications for 2-D assessment of the heart, as well as robust 3-D right ventricle volume and ejection fraction measurements, making accurate exams faster and easier to conduct. Philips also announced that it is collaborating with digital health company LindaCare to combine the latter’s OnePulse cloud-based solution for the remote monitoring of patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) with the Philips IntelliSpace Cardiovascular informatics platform.