CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of patients receiving abdominal CT scans, an advanced type of X-ray, got them for tests they did not need, exposing them to excess radiation that could raise the ...

The retrospective study developed colorectal cancer detection with AI (COCA), using 1321 patients with colorectal cancer and ...

A new study reveals that abdominal CT scans play a significant role in diagnosing sarcopenia, a potentially reversible muscle-wasting condition that affects millions of older adults. Sarcopenia is ...

Share on Pinterest Research suggests that AI can help predict fall risk by analyzing abdominal CT scans. Image credit: Diego Martin/Stocksy As people age, the risk of falls increases, primarily due to ...

An AI tool reveals a substantial gap in the reporting of incidental hepatic steatosis on noncontrast CT scans and could flag ...

An AI system identified six acute abdominal emergencies on CT scans using a multiwindow Hounsfield unit (HU) encoding approach and localised the detected pathology to the clinically appropriate ...

Despite concerns about exposing patients to excessive amounts of radiation from CT scans, a Massachusetts General Hospital study finds that such tests avoided hospitalization in nearly one in four ...

Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an ...

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