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Radiology & Imaging

Building a better CT scanner

Computed tomography (CT) scanning, which creates detailed 3D images of bones, soft tissues, and organs, is better than standard X-rays for investigating complex injuries, cancers, and vascular issues.

Neuroscience

Want to speed brain research? It's all in how you look at it.

To get a better look at brains, Harvard researchers are making microscopes work more like human eyes.

Neuroscience

AI gives a clearer picture of functional MRI brain data

Obtaining clearer functional MRI data about the brain and its disorders is possible using artificial intelligence, according to Boston College researchers who report in Nature Methods that they have developed an AI-assisted ...

Cardiology

Mammograms may reveal hidden heart risks for women, study finds

Routine mammograms are best known as a front-line tool for detecting breast cancer. But new research suggests the same X-ray images may also offer an early warning sign for cardiovascular disease—the leading cause of death ...

Oncology & Cancer

Study finds a better way to screen for breast cancer

A pioneering study has found that an individualized approach to breast cancer screening that assesses patients' risk, rather than annual mammograms, can lower the chance of more advanced cancers, while still safely match ...

Oncology & Cancer

New Raman imaging system detects subtle tumor signals

Researchers have developed a new compact Raman imaging system that is sensitive enough to differentiate between tumor and normal tissue. The system offers a promising route to earlier cancer detection and to making molecular ...

Oncology & Cancer

WISDOM trial weighs risk-based cancer screening

University of California, San Francisco investigators led WISDOM, a randomized comparison of risk-based breast cancer screening and annual mammography. Rates of stage ≥IIB breast cancers met a noninferiority threshold under ...

Radiology & Imaging

AI can detect early signs of aging from chest X-rays

Artificial intelligence may be able to reveal how fast your body is aging by analyzing a chest X-ray, according to a new study published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. ...

Oncology & Cancer

New technology reduces false positives in breast ultrasounds

New ultrasound technology developed at Johns Hopkins can distinguish fluid from solid breast masses with near perfect accuracy, an advance that could save patients, especially those with dense breast tissue, from unnecessary ...

Neuroscience

X-ray imaging captures the brain's intricate connections

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, working with the Paul Scherrer Institute, has developed a new imaging protocol to capture mouse brain cell connections in precise detail. In work published ...

Neuroscience

Pro fighters risk damage to the brain's 'garbage disposal'

The brain's waste-clearing system significantly declines in function with repeated head impacts, according to a new study of cognitively impaired professional boxers and mixed martial arts fighters. The findings are being ...

Radiology & Imaging

AI tops density in predicting breast cancer risk

An image-only artificial intelligence (AI) model for predicting the five-year risk of breast cancer provided stronger and more precise risk stratification than breast density assessment, according to a study presented at ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

An fMRI marker of Alzheimer's-related cognitive decline

Researchers at Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Radboud University and the University of Oxford's Wellcome Center for Integrative Neuroimaging, report that attenuation of the brain's intrinsic anticorrelation between the default ...

Diabetes

Shape of your behind may signal diabetes

The shape of the gluteus maximus muscle in the buttocks changes in different ways with aging, lifestyle, frailty, osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes, and these changes differ between women and men, according to new research ...

Radiology & Imaging

AI detects first imaging biomarker of chronic stress

Using a deep learning AI model, researchers identified the first-of-its-kind biomarker of chronic stress detectable through routine imaging, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society ...

Oncology & Cancer

US lung cancer screening fails most patients, according to study

In a study of nearly 1,000 consecutive patients treated for lung cancer at Northwestern Medicine, researchers discovered only 35% would have qualified for screening, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) ...

Oncology & Cancer

Diagnostics for pancreatic cancer can improve with the help of AI

Pancreatic cancer is the deadliest form of cancer worldwide, mainly because the disease is often discovered late. Symptoms associated with these tumors are often non-specific, so patients and doctors do not immediately suspect ...

Radiology & Imaging

AI can help cancer patients better understand CT reports

Medical reports written in technical terminology can pose challenges for patients. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has investigated how artificial intelligence can make CT findings easier to understand. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Underlying cause of Gulf War illness confirmed

Dysfunctional mitochondria, organelles that serve as cellular power generators, appear to cause the symptoms of Gulf War illness (GWI) among tens of thousands of veterans of the Persian Gulf War, UT Southwestern Medical Center ...

Neuroscience

Use of head CT scans in ERs more than doubles over 15 years

A new study shows large increases in the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head in emergency departments across the United States from 2007 to 2022. The study, which was published on November 19, 2025, in Neurology, ...