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Top 5 Blogs in February
From advice on peer review to a perspective on the screening mammography recommendations, these are the most popular blogs on Diagnostic Imaging this month.
From advice on peer review to a perspective on the screening mammography recommendations, these are the most popular blogs on Diagnostic Imaging this month.
1. Smile, Radiologists - Doug Burnette, MD, reminds his fellow radiologists to treat others as they want to be treated. “With decreasing reimbursement, increasing workloads, and increasing stress in radiology, it is difficult at times to smile and put on that happy face,” he writes, then he explains why you should.
2. How to Do Peer Review in Radiology - Richard Woodcock, MD, offers a few notes on which methods of peer review should be used. He likens the process to Wile E. Coyote running over -and falling into - a canyon: “Unless our peers help us to improve, we don’t even know when we’ve fallen into the canyon.”
3. Virtual Second Opinion Services for Imaging Taking Hold - In this guest blog, John Karis, MD, shares his experiences at Barrow Neurological Institute, which has been using an online virtual second opinion service for imaging cases.
4. Why the Screening Mammography Recommendations are Flawed - On the heels of the controversial BMJ study this month, Ken Keller, MD, offers his insights into why the study and the USPSTF recommendations are deeply flawed.
5. Robbing Dr. Peter to Pay Dr. Paul - Regular blogger Eric Postal, MD, delivers another sharp commentary on the state of reimbursements. Think it’s fair to play Robin Hood between primary care and specialist physicians, he asks. “Good luck finding someone who deserves to be looted some more.”
Can Generative AI Facilitate Simulated Contrast Enhancement for Prostate MRI?
January 14th 2025Deep learning synthesis of contrast-enhanced MRI from non-contrast prostate MRI sequences provided an average multiscale structural similarity index of 70 percent with actual contrast-enhanced prostate MRI in external validation testing from newly published research.
Can MRI Have an Impact with Fertility-Sparing Treatments for Endometrial and Cervical Cancers?
January 9th 2025In a literature review that includes insights from recently issued guidelines from multiple European medical societies, researchers discuss the role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in facilitating appropriate patient selection for fertility-sparing treatments to address early-stage endometrial and cervical cancer.
