Showing papers in "Clinical Radiology in 2018"

TL;DR: The AUC scores for this test were comparable to state-of-the-art providing proof of concept for transfer learning from CNNs in fracture detection on plain radiographs, and is largely transferable, and therefore, has many potential applications in medical imaging.

TL;DR: New guidelines for the clinical management of B3 lesions reflect suggested practice as stated by the NHS Breast Screening Programme and approved by the Royal College of Radiologists.

TL;DR: PET/MRI may indeed provide greater accuracy than the currently available imaging procedures in the staging and later treatment response evaluation in HNSCC, with good agreement between PET/CT and PET/MRI with high correlation between semi-quantitative measurements in primary, nodal, osseous, and soft-tissue lesions imaging.

TL;DR: The AMRI protocol provides higher per-lesion sensitivity and NPV than reported values for ultrasound, the current recommended technique for screening, and similar per-LESION sensitivity and PPV to reportedvalues for complete dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI.

TL;DR: The CESM technique is described, performance compared to conventional mammography and magnetic resonance imaging is reviewed, its role in the diagnosis and staging of primary breast cancer is assessed, and its potential as a screening tool is investigated.

TL;DR: The present study showed that quantitative radiomics imaging features of breast tumour extracted from DCE-MRI are associated with breast cancer Ki67 expression.

TL;DR: The state of the art of these functional MRI techniques are reviewed with emphasis on those that are most relevant to the current management of patients with head and neck cancer.

TL;DR: Texture analysis of preoperative MRI has the potential to predict ER of HCC with up to 84% accuracy using an appropriate, single texture analysis parameter, and future studies are needed to validate these findings.

TL;DR: Gain the requisite expertise in blast imaging including recognising primary, secondary, and tertiary blast injuries and understand the fundamental role that imaging plays during mass casualty attacks and how to avoid radiology becoming a bottleneck to the forward flow of severely injured patients as they are triaged and treated.

TL;DR: There is now increasing data to validate the application of three-dimensional (3D)-fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequences, performed at 4 hours post-intravenous gadolinium, in the setting of potential Ménière's disease.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates the application of a machine learning-based approach to classify chest radiographs as normal or abnormal and its application to real-world datasets may be warranted in optimising clinician workload.

TL;DR: The median nerve CSA proximal and distal to the carpal tunnel and bowing of the retinaculum at the outlet are helpful in diagnosis of CTS.

TL;DR: Administration of HBB significantly improves the image quality of T2WI images, and provides evidence for the use of H BB in routine patient preparation prior to prostate mpMRI.

TL;DR: Several eponymous conditions described previously in the clinical and radiology literature are now recognised to be part of the IgG4-related disease spectrum, which includes multiple manifestations in the head and neck region, which are the subject of this review.

TL;DR: Multiple CT texture parameters, especially those in the venous phase, correlated well with pathological stage and hold great potential in predicting lymph node metastasis of gastric cancers.

TL;DR: CT quantitative parameters could predict the invasiveness of lung pGGNs and the largest cross-sectional area is the most valuable independent predictor and the mean attenuation value is less valuable.

TL;DR: TA parameters based on contrast-enhanced MRI images 1 week before and after TACE/HIFU may act as imaging biomarkers to predict an early response of patients with HCC.

TL;DR: Maxillofacial imaging encompasses radiology of the teeth and jaws, including the temporomandibular joints, and the potential role of imaging in obstructive sleep apnoea is discussed.

TL;DR: The article will begin with an overview of DECT scan acquisition, material characterisation, reconstructions, and basic considerations for implementation in the clinical setting, followed by a review of different clinical applications.

TL;DR: An integrated multi-omics model of PET/MRI-based radiomics could be the first non-invasive investigation for disease risk stratification and guidance of treatment in patients with primary ccRCC.

TL;DR: CT attenuation of SAT and VAT, and FDG uptake of VAT significantly correlated with OS in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma, independent of TNM staging and TLG.

TL;DR: This DKI method can be used to detect renal fibrosis in IgAN in a non-invasive manner and may provide additional information for characterisation and surveillance.

TL;DR: The highest hepatic iron scores and iron inside Kupffer cells were associated with the highest splenic and bone marrow deposits, suggesting systemic iron accumulation in the mononuclear phagocytic system.

TL;DR: Of women invited for MRI because of extremely dense breasts, 59% participated, and common reasons for non-participation were "MRI-related inconveniences" and "anxiety regarding the result of supplemental screening".

TL;DR: Multiparametric MRI evaluation enabled reliable differentiation of PCNSL and GBM in the majority patients, and these results support an integration of advanced MRI techniques for the diagnostic work-up of patients with these tumours.

TL;DR: SWE combined with greyscale US shows promise for end-of-treatment identification of response to NACT in women with breast cancer, with accuracies similar to breast MRI.

TL;DR: CT spectral quantitative parameters and serum tumour markers are valuable in evaluating histological types of lung cancer and in combination they can significantly improve diagnostic efficiency.

TL;DR: This review will introduce the concepts behind auditory implants, and explains how imaging is increasingly used to aid insertion and evaluation of these devices.

TL;DR: The use of intradermal "microbubbles" has shown great promise in being able to locate and biopsy the sentinel lymph node under ultrasound guidance, and raises the possibility that in the future such techniques may obviate the need for surgical SLNB in select patient populations.

TL;DR: Emean and Emax of breast lesions evaluated by SWE were positively correlated with ECM collagen fibre shape and arrangement category, which may account for the stiffness variations of breasts before surgical removal.