Translational research has, in recent years, become a popular agenda item at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and within the biomedical community at large. The NIH’s interest in the topic, w...

Rationale and Objectives Task-evoked functional MRI (fMRI) has been used successfully in the study of brain function and clinically for presurgical localization of eloquent brain regions prior to ...

Rationale and Objectives The purposes of this study were to retrospectively identify various etiologies underlying intracranial hemorrhages (ICHs) in term infants aged <2 years and their respec...

Rationale and Objectives Women who are invited for breast cancer screening should get enough information about the benefits and harms of screening to make an informed decision on participation. Pe...

“Listen to the patient.” —Sir William Osler Dr. Osler was perhaps the earliest practitioner of patient-centered medicine. More recently, Stewart et al divided the paradigm for patient-centered me...

Next Generation Artificial Vision Systems , edited by Anil Bharath and Maria Petrou of the Imperial College in London, is a broad-scoped review that presents current technology in the physiology of...

Rationale and Objectives Early detection of lung cancer can be problematic. Although current imaging methods can identify lung cancers, they are limited in the size of detectable nodules. There is...

This case study chronicles the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Department of Radiology at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans and the department’s subsequent efforts...

Informatics methods and systems in support of clinical care are well established in the health care enterprise. The new paradigm of patient-centered radiology creates new requirements and challenge...

A recent study conducted by our research group revealed that there may be a significant “laboratory effect” in retrospective observer performance studies that may in turn limit the relevance of inf...