Two simple neural networks are better than one complex one, according to a father-son team of entrepreneurs. On June 27 the two described “A Two-Stage Deep Learning Approach to Chest X-Ray Analysis” during the 2019 meeting of the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine in Denver.

Diagnostic procedures have always been a cornerstone of early prognosis and patient triaging. With a mass preference shift to noninvasive disease diagnosis as well as treatment, molecular imaging has been gathering remarkable momentum over the past few decades. Although a relatively new area in the world of biomedical research, molecular imaging technology has traversed faster over the years to where it stands today, which prominently attributes to its readiness for noninvasive diagnosis.

A mobile C-arm is a medical imaging device that is based on X-ray technology and can be used flexibly in various ORs within a clinic. The name is derived from the C-shaped arm used to connect the X-ray source and X-ray detector to one another. Since the introduction of the first C-arm in 1955, the technology has advanced rapidly.