Radiation risk issues in recurrent imaging

C Brower, MM Rehani - The British journal of radiology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Millions of patients benefit from medical imaging every single day. However, we have
entered an unprecedented era in imaging practices wherein 1 out of 125 patients can be …

Trends in use of medical imaging in US health care systems and in Ontario, Canada, 2000-2016

R Smith-Bindman, ML Kwan, EC Marlow, MK Theis… - Jama, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Medical imaging increased rapidly from 2000 to 2006, but trends in recent years
have not been analyzed. Objective To evaluate recent trends in medical imaging. Design …

Health care disparities in radiology—a review of the current literature

CM DeBenedectis, LB Spalluto, L Americo… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Health care disparities exist in all medical specialties, including radiology.
Raising awareness of established health care disparities is a critical component of …

AppendiXNet: deep learning for diagnosis of appendicitis from a small dataset of CT exams using video pretraining

P Rajpurkar, A Park, J Irvin, C Chute, M Bereket… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The development of deep learning algorithms for complex tasks in digital medicine has
relied on the availability of large labeled training datasets, usually containing hundreds of …

[HTML][HTML] Increased computed tomography utilization in the emergency department and its association with hospital admission

MF Bellolio, HC Heien… - Western Journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods We conducted an analysis of an administrative claims database of US privately
insured and Medicare Advantage enrollees. We identified ED visits from 2005 through 2013 …

Trend in radiologist workload compared to number of admissions in the emergency department

CD Lantsman, Y Barash, E Klang, L Guranda… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Recent years have shown an increase in radiologists' workload, both during
regular working hours and during on-call. We aimed to quantify the 8-year trend in on-call …

Overtesting and the downstream consequences of overtreatment: implications of “preventing overdiagnosis” for emergency medicine

CR Carpenter, AS Raja… - Academic Emergency …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Overtesting, the downstream consequences of overdiagnosis, and overtreatment of some
patients are topics of growing debate within emergency medicine (EM). The “Preventing …

Increasing utilization of emergency department neuroimaging from 2007 through 2017

A ElHabr, S Merdan, T Ayer, A Prater… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
BACKGROUND. The volume of emergency department (ED) visits and the number of
neuroimaging examinations have increased since the start of the century. Little is known …

Automated pneumothorax triaging in chest X‐rays in the New Zealand population using deep‐learning algorithms

S Feng, Q Liu, A Patel, SU Bazai, CK Jin… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The primary aim was to develop convolutional neural network (CNN)‐based
artificial intelligence (AI) models for pneumothorax classification and segmentation for …

Racial and ethnic differences in diagnostic imaging utilization during adult emergency department visits in the United States, 2005 to 2014

JD Schrager, RE Patzer, JJ Kim, SR Pitts… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective To compare the use of medical imaging (x-ray [XR], CT, ultrasound, and MRI) in
the emergency department (ED) for adult patients of different racial and ethnic groups in the …