What if your old chest scans—taken years ago for something unrelated—held a secret warning about your heart? A new AI tool called AI-CAC, developed by Mass General Brigham and the VA, can now comb ...

Low dose chest CT scans have been added to Australia's national diagnostic reference levels to support optimisation of patients' radiation ...

CT scan results revealed that the patient had a congenital diaphragmatic hernia on the left side, causing his stomach, spleen ...

“Using AI for tasks like CAC detection can help shift medicine from a reactive approach to the proactive prevention of disease,” said Dr. Hagopian. He pointed to the potential for fewer heart attacks, ...

New study warns that frequent CT scans may cause 5% of annual cancers, urging reduced usage and safer radiation doses ...

The coronary calcium score may help doctors identify which patients truly benefit from statins—and who might not need them at ...

Internal review of over 4,000 scans highlights structural abnormalities in lungs of individuals in their 20s and 30s, raising ...

The new lung cancer screening program needs to be independently evaluated to keep it on track, and to minimise the harms.

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

For example, low-dose chest CT scans performed for lung cancer screening use lower doses than multi-phase abdominal/pelvic CT scans that are required to stage a person with pancreatic cancer.

From July, eligible Australians will be screened for lung cancer as part of the nation's first new cancer screening program ...