Mammograph Articles & Analysis
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The use of computer vision in radiology may have advantages for both patients and medical facilities. However, some worry that machine learning (ML) may one day replace doctors because it can outperform them. The desire for increased efficiency and efficacy in clinical care has been the primary motivating reason behind the development of AI in medical imaging. Recent technological developments, ...
Medical Scientific is excited to announce the first installation of SOLO™ DMR Wireless Mammography Retrofit System in Chile. The CMOS-based, high resolution detector has been installed in a mobile unit that will be used across the country to perform critical screening. Day 1 Technical training for DataScan engineers. On the first day of this trip, Medical Scientific and JPI Healthcare ...
Hancock Medical Center, located in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, has served the community's healthcare needs since 1960. The 110-bed Facility provides a wide range of specialty medical services, including cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, obstetrics, and radiology. As patient referrals to a variety of specialists continue to increase, the need for high quality, cost-effective image duplication ...
CAD PRO® Advantage Digitizer Provides Mammography Workflow Solution for Innovative Radiology Practice. For more than 50 years, Diagnostic Radiology Consultants (DRC) has pioneered imaging services in the tri-state area of Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. The innovative group, including 11 radiologists at 12 sites, often is the first to offer emerging technologies that positively impact ...
DR Systems. Inc.. is a leading provider of integrated medical image management systems for hospitals and imaging centers. Co-founded in 1992 by practicing radiologist Murray Reicher, M.D.. the company has become one of the preeminent vendors in the PACS industry and serves facilities of all sizes, ranging from one of the smallest hospitals in the United States to large academic medical centers ...
Summary OTraces in collaboration with the Gertsen Institute in Moscow performed a blinded validation study on OTraces breast cancer detection products, the CDx Chemistry System for processing automated tests for detection of cancer; BC Sera Dx Immunochemistry test kit for the measurements of proteins that are predictive as a group of the presence on breast cancer in women; and the OTraces Cancer ...
When automated dark adaptometry was first commercialized, many of us had more questions than answers with regard to using this information for detecting AMD and monitoring disease progression. But with more than seven years of practical in-office experience performing dark adaptation testing on thousands of patients, the tables have turned. This technology offers a safety net for ...
Clinicians can make better diagnostic and treatment decisions using the data obtained by next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. Breast cancers, for example, have typically been diagnosed using mammography, physical exam, and histology. Genetics became more significant after the discoveries of oncogenes and other biomarkers. Today, commercially available microarray-based tests enable more ...
Despite breast cancer being the second most common cancer for women in the US, progress in the breast imaging space has been stagnant over the last few decades. This is evident in the countless women who are still misdiagnosed – either receiving a false positive or getting diagnosed in the later stages of the disease. Why Early Detection is Important According to the National Breast ...
Revolutionizing breast cancer detection Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in women in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer death in American women.1 It is also treatable if detected early enough. While there are various cancer detection modalities available, current breast imaging devices fail to expose as much as 35% of breast cancers and that number increases to ...
In this configuration, the cavity is expandable yet adequately marked for whole breast XRT if needed and allows for delineation of the tumor bed for future mammographic surveillance while not obscuring MRI imaging with scatter. ...
Different irradiation configurations for typical mammographic facilities were evaluated in order to establish optimal irradiation parameters for improving X-ray image quality. ...
We are now developing a system which allows the visualization of the structure and tissue associated with breast cancer, which is difficult to achieve with conventional mammography, by utilizing X-ray refraction. This system is expected to achieve an approximately 1000-fold higher contrast and high spatial resolution at low dose; compared to techniques by use of X-ray absorption. Monochromatic ...
We examined the production of dicentrics in human lymphocytes irradiated with 29 kV X-rays to a depth of 13.5 mm in a PMMA phantom. For these irradiation conditions, which are appropriate for the diagnostic application of mammography X-rays, a coefficient of (5.88±0.66)×10–2 Gy–1 of the linear quadratic dose–response relationship was determined. This value does not differ significantly from the ...