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Computational Model Predicts Cancer Survival Rates

Radiology News - Medical Imaging
A new computational model highly predictive of breast cancer survival has been developed by Columbia University engineering researchers. Their work is outlined in a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine. Lead researcher Dimitris Anastassiou--a professor of engineering at Columbia's Fu Foundation Sc...

Imaging Helps to Measure Patient Pain

Radiology News - Medical Imaging
Researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging believe they have developed a way to measure how much pain people are experiencing. In a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Tor D. Wager, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and c...

Mammograms: Which Women? How Often?

Radiology News - Medical Imaging
As everybody knows by now, how frequently a woman should have a mammogram is a topic of hot debate in the U.S. In particular, women in their 40s have been troubled by recommendations almost four years ago from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that mammograms are not routinely recommended for them. Instead, the decis...

PACS/RIS Refresh Reaches London

Radiology News - Medical Imaging
The shake-up of England’s PACS/RIS market is well underway, with trusts in London becoming the latest to start work on plans to exit from the national programme contracts drawn up a decade ago. The latest research from EHI Intelligence shows that the refresh is taking place in clearly defined waves as the result of the di...