Vittorio Miele

TL;DR: The main chest radiological features (CXR) of COVID-19 shows patchy or diffuse reticular–nodular opacities and consolidation, with basal, peripheral and bilateral predominance, correlating with an increased risk of ICU admission.

TL;DR: This position statement of the European Federation of Societies in Ultrasound and Medicine (EFSUMB) assesses the current status of CEUS applications in children and makes suggestions for further development of this technique.

TL;DR: Future legislation must outline the contours of the professional's responsibility, with respect to the provision of the service performed autonomously by AI, balancing the professional’s ability to influence and therefore correct the machine, limiting the sphere of autonomy that instead technological evolution would like to recognize to robots.

TL;DR: SIRM recommends chest X-ray as first-line imaging tool, CT as additional tool that shows typical features of COVID pneumonia, and ultrasound of the lungs as monitoring tool, and wishes to deliver clear statements to the radiological community, on the usefulness of artificial intelligence as a radiological decision support system in COVID-19 positive patients.

TL;DR: VU images can be obtained with similar image quality as CU, Nevertheless, a complete abdominal DECT is possible only in patients with a low body mass index, due technical limitations of the present DECT systems.