Comparing Fetal Weight Estimates in the Third Trimester: Clinical Examination Findings, Ultrasonographic Estimation, and Actual Birth Weight by Ayesha Ghaffar, Sabeen Ashraf, Hafiza Alia Akbar Khan, Saba Yousaf, Tallat Farkhanda, Amartur Rabbal

“…By using Johnson's formula, patients go through CEFW. The skilled radiologists performed an ultrasound on every female to obtain UEFW. …”
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Low KV-low contrast medium dose one-stop dual source CT high pitch integrated coronary-carotid-cerebral-aortic CTA improves image quality and reduces both radiation and contrast me... by Meng Wang, Chao Zheng, Lin Yang, Juan Su, Bo Wang, JieXin Sheng

“…Noise, attenuation, signal to noise ratio (SNR), and contrast to noise ratio (CNR) were compared between the groups by setting region of interest (ROI) in target vessels to evaluate objective image quality. Two radiologists assessed subjective image quality using the 5-point scale. volumetric CT dose index (CTDIvol), dose length production (DLP), and effective radiation dose (ED) were compared, while contrast medium (CM) dose was assessed by CM volume and iodine uptake (IU). …”
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An Atypical Presentation of Childhood Paraganglioma with Seizures: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Elizabeth Eberechi Oyenusi, Uzoamaka Felicia Nwigbo, Oluwadamilola Moromoke Oladipo, Blessing Ebele Kene-Udemezue, Kasarachi Pauline Akowundu, Khadijah Omobusola Oleolo-Ayodeji, Oluwaseun Adunni Afoke, Funmilayo Oluwatoyin Babatunde, Felix Makinde Alakaloko, Gabriel Kolawole Asiyanbi, Ezekiel Olayiwola Ogunleye, Abiola Olufunmilayo Oduwole, Foluso Ebun Afolabi Lesi

“…A multidisciplinary team consisting of paediatric endocrinologists, radiologists, anaesthetists, paediatric and cardiothoracic surgeons, and the intensive care unit (ICU) team was involved in the peri and postoperative management of the child. …”
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Early Radiologic Diagnosis of Pulmonary Infection in Febrile Neutropenic Patients: A Comparison of Serial Chest Radiography and Single CT Chest by Wanaporn Burivong, Thanatorn Sricharoen, Apichart Thachang, Sunsiree Soodchuen, Panitpong Maroongroge, Vichit Leelasithorn

“…Demographic and radiographic data were retrospectively reviewed. Three radiologists independently and blindly evaluated chest films and CT chests. …”
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Evaluation of Patients’ Received Doses in Chest CT Scan Protocols for COVID-19 Diagnosis by Sadegh Shurche, Tinoosh Almasi, Maryam Tima, Nima Rostampour

“…The maximum carcinogenicity was 1.09 × 10−4 and 3.05 × 10−4, respectively. Radiologists gave an overall acceptance rate of 4.9 ± 0.1 and 4.8 ± 0.2 out of a possible 5-point for images with low-dose and smart protocols, respectively. …”
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Diagnostics and Treatment of Esophageal Achalasia (Clinical Guidelines of the Russian Gastroenterological Association, Russian Scientific Medical Society of Internal Medicine, Russ... by V. T. Ivashkin, A. S. Trukhmanov, I. V. Maev, O. M. Drapkina, A. I. Martynov, O. A. Storonova, E. A. Godgello, M. P. Korolev, T. L. Lapina, P. V. Pavlov, A. V. Paraskevova, I. A. Tarasova, E. D. Fedorov, A. T. Tskhovrebov, M. P. Shapka, A. L. Shestakov, A. V. Yurasov

“…Aim: to familiarize gastroenterologists, therapists, functional diagnostics and general practitioners (family doctors), radiologists, and endoscopists with modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of achalasia of the cardia.Key points. …”
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Evaluation of Siemens Healthineers’ StrokeSegApp for automated diffusion and perfusion lesion segmentation in patients with ischemic stroke by Lynnet-Samuel J. Teichmann, Ahmed A. Khalil, Kersten Villringer, Jochen B. Fiebach, Stefan Huwer, Eli Gibson, Ivana Galinovic

“…PurposeThis study aimed to evaluate the perfomance of Siemens Healthineers’ StrokeSegApp performance in automatically segmenting diffusion and perfusion lesions in patients with acute ischemic stroke and to assess its clinical utility in guiding mechanical thrombectomy decisions.MethodsThis retrospective study used MRI data of acute ischemic stroke patients from the prospective observational single-center 1000Plus study, acquired between September 2008 and June 2013 (clinicaltrials.org; NCT00715533) and manually segmented by radiologists as the ground truth. The performance of the StrokeSegApp was compared against this ground truth using the dice similarity coefficient (DSC) and Bland–Altman plots. …”
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Assessment of factors implicated in bone fusion after percutaneous endoscopic lumbar intervertebral fusion by Zheng Huang, Xialin Li, Weihong Yi, Junfeng Gong, Yue Zhou, Yu Tang

“…Fusion was evaluated using thin-slice computed tomography scans at 12 months by 2 independent radiologists and defined as no detectable lucency between bone and graft. …”
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Inter-reader agreement for diagnosing thymic cysts on chest MRI in two tertiary referral centers by Yura Ahn, Sang Min Lee, Chu Hyun Kim, Sehee Kim, Jooae Choe, Joon Beom Seo, Ho Yun Lee

“…Internal and external reading sets consisted of different combinations of MR sequences (pre- and post-contrast T1-weighted, T2-weighted, subtracted images, and diffusion-weighted imaging [DWI]/apparent diffusion coefficient [ADC] map) and CT. Four and three radiologists independently reviewed internal and external reading sets. …”
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Comparison of MRI and CT in the Evaluation of Unilateral Maxillary Sinus Opacification by Elise Chua, Annakan V. Navaratnam, Dominic St Leger, Vincent Lam, Samit Unadkat, Alexander Weller

“…Two head and neck radiologists independently reviewed each imaging modality and recorded both a final diagnosis and Likert-scale diagnostic certainty score. …”
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MRI findings in patients with psychogenic non‐epileptic seizures: Prevalence, distribution, and classification of the findings. A single tertiary epilepsy center experience by Aleix Jareno‐Badenas, Mario Matute‐González, Luis Pintor, Estefanía Conde‐Blanco, Mar Carreño, Xavier Setoain, Camilo Pineda, Fernando Diego Choque‐Chávez, Tomás Fernández, Núria Bargalló, Sofía González‐Ortiz

“…The MRI findings were evaluated and classified by two radiologists, who reported the category of the findings, laterality, and location. …”
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Swarm learning with weak supervision enables automatic breast cancer detection in magnetic resonance imaging by Oliver Lester Saldanha, Jiefu Zhu, Gustav Müller-Franzes, Zunamys I. Carrero, Nicholas R. Payne, Lorena Escudero Sánchez, Paul Christophe Varoutas, Sreenath Kyathanahally, Narmin Ghaffari Laleh, Kevin Pfeiffer, Marta Ligero, Jakob Behner, Kamarul A. Abdullah, Georgios Apostolakos, Chrysafoula Kolofousi, Antri Kleanthous, Michail Kalogeropoulos, Cristina Rossi, Sylwia Nowakowska, Alexandra Athanasiou, Raquel Perez-Lopez, Ritse Mann, Wouter Veldhuis, Julia Camps, Volkmar Schulz, Markus Wenzel, Sergey Morozov, Alexander Ciritsis, Christiane Kuhl, Fiona J. Gilbert, Daniel Truhn, Jakob Nikolas Kather

“…While this increase poses challenges for radiologists, artificial intelligence (AI) offers potential solutions to manage this workload. …”
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Detection of Masses in Mammogram Images Based on the Enhanced RetinaNet Network With INbreast Dataset by Wang M, Liu R, Luttrell IV J, Zhang C, Xie J

“…However, this process usually depends on the experience of radiologists and is always very time consuming.Patients and Methods: We propose to introduce deep learning technology into the process for the facilitation of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), and address the challenges of class imbalance, enhance the detection of small masses and multiple targets, and reduce false positives and negatives in mammogram analysis. …”
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Is There a Mild Form of Pediatric Appendicitis? An Eight-Year Single-Center Retrospective Review by Eric Scheier, Khaled Khalilia, Pavel Peslin, Stav Amir, Luba Pasherstnik Bizer

“…To confirm the accuracy of the initial sonographic diagnosis of appendicitis in children with spontaneous resolution, two study radiologists, blinded to clinical data, reviewed the images for signs of appendiceal inflammation. …”
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Comparison of Chest Computed Tomography (CT) Imaging Patterns and Severity among COVID-19 Patients during the First and Fourth Waves in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Lensa Million Baharu, Amir Alwan, Seife Teferi Dellie, Tesfaye Kebede Legesse, Kibruyisfaw Weldeab Abore

“…Pioneer and Wudassie diagnostic centers were selected due to the high case load and availability of well-experienced cardiothoracic radiologists. Data were collected from July 1 to August 3, 2022, using a structured Google form sheet questionnaire. …”
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Dosimetry and Comparison between Different CT Protocols (Low Dose, Ultralow Dose, and Conventional CT) for Lung Nodules’ Detection in a Phantom by Cleverson Alex Leitão, Gabriel Lucca de Oliveira Salvador, Priscilla Tazoniero, Danny Warszawiak, Cristian Saievicz, Rosangela Requi Jakubiak, Dante Luiz Escuissato

“…A chest phantom containing 93 simulated lung nodules was scanned using five different protocols: ULD (80 kVp/30 mA), LD A (120 kVp/20 mA), LD B (100 kVp/30 mA), LD C (120 kVp/30 mA), and CCT (120 kVp/automatic mA). Four chest radiologists analyzed a selected image from each protocol and registered in diagrams the nodules they detected. …”
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Distribution of spinal damage in patients with axial spondyloarthritis as assessed by MRI: a prospective and blinded study by Andreas Haidmayer, Gabriel Adelsmayr, Christopher Spreizer, Eva Valentina Klocker, Franz Quehenberger, Michael Fuchsjaeger, Jens Thiel, Josef Hermann

“…After assessment of spinal mobility and function two blinded radiologists independently evaluated MRIs of 23 vertebral units in every patient. …”
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Clinical application of third-generation dual-source CT-based dynamic imaging reconstruction for pulmonary embolism imaging by Kai Liao, Biao Ye, Xi Li, Wei Liu, Tongtong Jia, Zongbao Han, Ziyi Liang, Yongli Duan, Xiaoli Sun, Jianmei Zhang, Rengui Wang, Jiao Gong

“…Simultaneously two radiologists performed a subjective evaluation of the quality of the picture images. …”
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Ultra-fast biparametric MRI in prostate cancer assessment: Diagnostic performance and image quality compared to conventional multiparametric MRI by Antonia M. Pausch, Vivien Filleböck, Clara Elsner, Niels J. Rupp, Daniel Eberli, Andreas M. Hötker

“…Methods: This prospective single-center study enrolled 123 biopsy-naïve patients undergoing conventional mpMRI and additionally ultra-fast bpMRI at 3 T between 06/2023–02/2024. Two radiologists (R1: 4 years and R2: 3 years of experience) independently assigned PI-RADS scores (PI-RADS v2.1) and assessed image quality (mPI-QUAL score) in two blinded study readouts. …”
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Critical reflection on the indication for computed tomography: an interdisciplinary survey of risk and benefit management in patients with sepsis by Maria Isabel Opper Hernando, Denis Witham, Ann-Christine Stahl, Peter Richard Steinhagen, Stefan Angermair, Wolfgang Bauer, Friederike Compton, Andreas Edel, Jan Matthias Kruse, York Kühnle, Gunnar Lachmann, Susanne Marz, Holger Müller-Redetzky, Jens Nee, Oliver Paul, Damaris Praeger, Carsten Skurk, Miriam Stegemann, Alexander Uhrig, Stefan Wolf, Myrto Bolanaki, Kerstin Rubarth, Joachim Seybold, Elke Zimmermann, Marc Dewey, Julian Pohlan

“…Responders saw the strongest indication for contrast media administration in septic patients for (1) CT examinations of the abdomen (92.7%, n = 333/359) and (2) combined CT examinations of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis (94.1%, n = 337/358). While radiologists were most likely to consider manifest hyperthyroidism an absolute contraindication to contrast media administration (43.8%, n = 14/32), most other groups of physicians opted for appropriate preparation before contrast media administration in this subset of septic patients. …”
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