This article reviews the central issues that arise in the assessment of diagnostic imaging and computer-assist modalities. The paradigm of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve—the depe...

The following abstracts of diagnostic radiology research and training grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were awarded to principal investigators (PIs) whose primary appointmen...

Rationale and Objectives Recent health care policies and regulations have affected the manner in which patient data—especially protected health information (PHI)—are handled in both the clinical a...

Rationale and Objectives We present a method to perform full text searches of radiology reports for the large number of departments that do not have this ability as part of their radiology or hosp...

Rationale and Objectives Sonoelastography depicts the intrinsic elastic properties of a tissue which are characterized by the strain applied to achieve tissue deformation and the velocity at which...

In the preface, the authors of the Teaching Atlas of Chest Imaging state, “Radiology residents need to be exposed to a large volume of thoracic imaging cases in order to master image interpretation...

The American public expects safe, predictable, high-quality care and assumes that physicians work to remain current and competent. The American Board of Radiology (ABR) encourages each board-certif...

Rationale and Objectives Our goals were to apply perfusion CT technique to breast tumor and to evaluate the correlation between arterial perfusion value and other tumor characteristics. Materials...

Rationale and Objectives Neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NST) is the standard treatment for locally advanced breast cancer and a common option for primary operable disease. It is important to develo...

In this issue, Li, Giger et al. ( ) report on a technique that uses fractal analysis of mammographic parenchymal patterns for the assessment of breast cancer risk. Among other interesting observati...