What personal skills are needed to achieve success in breast radiology?
Breast imaging is a highly clinical sub-specialist role that involves direct patient contact and performing clinical examinations, ultrasound scans, and image guided biopsies, together with…
How to avoid burnout: recognise the signs and seek help
Mindfulness, seven or more hours sleep a night, and spending less time on social media can all be effective ways to cope better with stress…
ESOR further extends horizons of radiological education
The European School of Radiology (ESOR) has completed thirteen years in action; thirteen years of commitment to radiological education. Since ECR 2018, when I took…
Multi-front development in x-ray tech and methodology
What is the current state-of-the-art technology in radiology, and what are the prospects of recent innovations? The rapid growth and advancement in imaging technology certainly…
AI-driven dose reduction: state of the art and limits
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology spans all fields of imaging, including radiation protection, and that has a lot to do with improving image optimisation. But how…
Ethical issues come to prominence in the fast-emerging world of artificial intelligence
Much of the excitement to date surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has been about the technical capabilities, rather than the associated moral challenges. But AI will…
ESUR: promoting the important role of innovation in genitourinary imaging
Innovations of 2020: what is currently at the cutting edge? Uro-radiology continues to evolve from anatomic to more functional assessment of disease processes. Recently, the…
Impact of inter-rater bias on training deep neural networks with biomedical data
The problem of inter-rater bias in manual segmentation of medical images is often overlooked in the context of deep neural networks (DNNs). It leads to…
Using CT radiomics to improve risk-stratification in head & neck cancer patients
Head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma (HNSCC) are tumours occurring in the oral cavity (OC), larynx, and pharynx. For males and females respectively, the estimated number…
Dynamic contrast-enhanced CT or PET/CT for diagnosis of solitary pulmonary nodules?
Patients presenting with a solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) on diagnostic imaging tests are an important group because if early stage lung cancer is treated with…