'Time is brain': How to identify and respond to a stroke
Imagine you're at a dinner party and the person sitting across the table from you suddenly stops making sense, and not ...
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Awad Lab: Predicting and preventing strokes and brain bleeds
In the newest episode of Inside the Lab, visit Prof. Issam Awad and learn about his team's mission: to prevent strokes before they happen.
This medical test may cause cancer due to ‘unfathomable’ mistake — and it’s performed 93M times a year in the US
As the federal government investigates America’s chronic disease epidemic, some experts are warning that a popular diagnostic tool may be a contributing factor. CT scans, a go-to for diagnosing ...
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Some CT scans may have too much radiation, researchers say
Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients undergoing CT scans. Under new Medicare regulations effective this year ...
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Cerebrovascular Accident: Identifying and Treating a Stroke
A cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is a medical term that refers to types of strokes. In a CVA, blood flow to the brain is interrupted. Signs of a CVA may include weakness, numbness, confusion, or loss ...
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Deep-learning-assisted detection and segmentation of rib fractures from CT scans: Development and validation of FracNet
2Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China 3MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, AI Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China ...
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Brain Scan AI System Can Describe What You See
But the groundwork is being laid now. Various groups have demonstrated the ability to decode certain kinds of thoughts, particularly what people are looking at, based on functional MRI brain scan ...
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Innovative CT scan technique could improve prognosis and treatments for head and neck cancers
CT scans are a standard pre-treatment diagnostic tool for patients with HNSCC and are used by oncologists to create individualized treatment plans. In this study, researchers took a closer look at ...
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Update: Pope Francis’ CT scan shows ‘normal progression of the lung inflammation’
The Vatican also reported that the chest CT scan carried out Tuesday evening “showed a normal progression of the lung inflammation.” It said that “the mild kidney insufficiency observed in ...
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6,000 Brain Scans Reveal the Many Faces of Schizophrenia
Researchers analyzed thousands of brain scans to uncover how schizophrenia varies at a structural level. While some brain areas differ greatly between patients, others share a common developmental ...
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Pope Francis in critical but stable condition, has CT scan, Vatican says
Pope Francis remains in critical but stable condition after undergoing a CT scan on Tuesday, the Vatican announced. Vatican officials say the pope, 88, returned to work in the evening, making a ...