Top Five Radiology Content of 2024

For patients with localized prostate cancer and PI-RADS 3 or higher lesions, MRI-guided micro-ultrasound multifiber focal laser ablation had an 18 percent recurrence rate at one year, according to newly published research.

In the third episode of a three-part podcast, Anand Narayan, M.D., Ph.D., and Amy Patel, M.D., discuss the challenges of expanded breast cancer screening amid a backdrop of radiologist shortages and ever-increasing volume on radiology worklists.

In contrast to simply agreeing with the negative herd or hijacking a conversation with unrelated commentary, emphasizing spirited contributions and viewpoints can facilitate a lively exchange of ideas in radiology forums.

Richard Duszak, MD, and Mina Makary, MD, discuss a number of issues, ranging from demographic trends and NPRPs to physician burnout and medical student recruitment, that figure to impact the radiology workforce now and in the near future.

Convolutional neural network-enabled segmentation of brain MRI offered a 25.7 percent higher specificity than a radiomic model for differentiating radionecrosis and metastatic progression in patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases.

Ten-minute and five-minute knee MRI exams with compressed sequences facilitated by deep learning offered nearly equivalent sensitivity and specificity as an 18-minute conventional MRI knee exam, according to research presented recently at the RSNA conference.