Stroke thrombectomies can improve outcome, but implementation issues remain
Endovascular therapy for stroke is progressing fast and now has strong clinical evidence behind it, but more trained radiologists and specialist services are needed to…
Ultrahigh-field MRI systems make progress, but practical difficulties remain
Ultrahigh-field MRI is pushing the boundaries of imaging science and has the scope to improve clinical care in specific, particularly neurological, applications. However, the consensus…
Spinal interventional neuroradiology, spinal instability and stenosis: what we can do
Lumbar spinal canal and foraminal stenosis (LSCS) has long been considered a simple ‘degenerative’ disease, despite the recent discovery of a genetic predisposition, related to…
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…
Belgian residents at forefront of AI performance and workflow integration in the emergency department
At the emergency radiology department of the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), an artificial intelligence (AI) tool supports on-call residents in detecting intracranial haemorrhage (ICH)….
What the future holds for MRI
MRI’s unmatched richness of contrast has made it an essential modality in many settings, such as abdominal, brain, cardiac and MSK imaging. Equipment that provides…
Central European radiologists boost their visibility and profile with ESR Meets session
The culture, healthcare organisation, and practice of radiology in Croatia, Slovakia, and Slovenia come under the microscope this morning at ECR 2020. Speakers from these…
Visualising the invisible in Alzheimer’s
A century has been lost searching in the wrong places for a cure to Alzheimer’s disease (AD). But with the contribution of imaging, researchers may…