Background: The decision to perform head CT, following non-traumatic cardiac arrest, is based on clinical judgment. We examined whether such expensive testing, factored into early care decisions.

Are CT scans silently triggering a cancer epidemic — or are we being misled by speculative modeling and media-fueled fear? A ...

Regular chest CT scans are recommended for certain populations, particularly the elderly, who are considered to be at higher risk for lung cancer (7). If this examination can successfully diagnose ...

A CT scan study of the mummy of Pharaoh Seqenenre-Taa-II, an Egyptian ruler whose death eventually helped reunite the kingdom, revealed new details about how the king died. A recent paper suggests ...

The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease that primarily affects lungs. This virus has spread in almost every continent. Countries are racing to slow down the spread by testing and ...

Finding cervical cancer often starts with an abnormal HPV (human papillomavirus) or Pap test result. This will lead to further tests which can diagnose cervical cancer or pre-cancer. The Pap test and ...

Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of appropriateness of inpatient CT and MRI scans performed in Southern Italy. Methods The study was carried out by retrospectively ...

It’s ‘nature rocked, humanity shocked’ kind of incident yet again, that turned into the ‘talk of the internet’- after a rather rare medical case went viral on social media. The case was seemingly ...

We train TACNet on the inspirator thoracic CT scans with ground truth, which are generated by clinicians and evaluate on our own clinical data sets and EXACT'09 data sets. Compared with ...

An empty boat in an open sea. Image via Unsplash The incident happened off Florida’s Atlantic coast—an area teeming with marine life but increasingly busy with boat traffic. A group of ...