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Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: This study analyzed multiple Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) linear and volumetric ventricular measurements in a group of subjects with iNPH (idiopathic-Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus) with the aim of: (a) evaluating the correlation with clinical...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: The aim of this study 1 is to assess the clinical utility of using interictal magnetic and electric source imaging (MSI and ESI) using dipole clustering in children and young adults with drug resistant epilepsy (DRE) having inconclusive MRI...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: To determine the predictive value of morphologic patterns and high-order radiomic features [1] obtained from advanced MRI protocol performed with contrast-enhanced susceptibility (SWI-CE) [2] and to characterize treatment response in patients with...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: In an acute trauma setting conventional CT is part of the clinical routine work up to assess osseous pathologies for potential surgical planning with the disadvantage of using ionizing radiation [1, 2]. Recently, several approaches have been...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: The purpose of this study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the most cited publications in the European Radiology journal (ER). The study aimed to identify the trends in publication and evaluate the correlations between the number of...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of an automated T1 mapping quantification of the liver parenchyma with a deep learning-based 3D T1 vibe Dixon in-phase liver parenchyma and vessels segmentation combined with voxel-wise...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: - To show a systematic, easy and fast approach to facial trauma. - To highlight potential complications of facial...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Ultra-short echo-time (UTE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has shown promise in phenotyping lung diseases, as it provides millimetre resolution and radiation-free measurement of pulmonary structural abnormality [1]. In this work, we aimed to...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: To investigate the relationships between areas of subcutaneousadipose tissue (SAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and pelvic fat volume (PFV), and analyzethe feasibility of diagnosing pelvic lipomatosis (PL) from a single cross-sectional...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Radiomics is a field of medical study that aims to extract a large number of quantitative features from medical images using data characterization algorithms. It holds potentials to uncover disease characteristics that fail to be appreciated by the...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: We developed the automated system to evaluate the complexity of the contour of invasive breast cancers (IBCs) and we previously showed that IBCs differ significantly in contour complexity among subtypes. In the present study we examined the...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: To propose an accelerated lumbar spine MRI protocol utilizing a DLbased reconstruction algorithm for highly accelerated spin-echo data acquisition. We aimed to compare the image quality and diagnostic performance of readers for degenerative lumbar...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Evaluating tumor response to treatment plays an important role in treatment decision-making. Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) criteria for MRI are currently the most used to quantify treatment response in brain tumors. These criteria are...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Selecting appropriate imaging protocols for new referrals demands radiologist attention and may interrupt emergency imaging workflow. Constant interruptions are a risk factor for errors and can decrease the efficiency of the interpretation work. [1]...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: To determine the changes in pre and post-therapeutic Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) values for Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcomas (UPS) and to correlate them with tumor treatment response. To determine the value of ADC high-order radiomic...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: To ensure reliable measurements of brain atrophy from longitudinal MR studies it is usually required that the follow-up scans of patients are acquired on the same machine [1]. This is due to the fact that images acquired in different machines are...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: To present the most impactful, current indications and strategies for denoising algorithms in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). To describe currently available denoising principles based of deep learning algorithms. To illustrate differences in...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Aims and objectives Separating Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) from dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) can be challenging, especially in DLB patients with concomitant AD pathology. It is imperative, though, to distinguish the diseases for optimal patient...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: Objective: To see how useful gadoxetic acid contrast-enhanced MRI was for qualitatively measuring liver...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: In the last decades there has been an increase in both the incidence of rectal cancer (RC) and its related mortality. In an attempt to improve RC out-come, new treatment strategies have been developed over the years, including surgical procedures...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: In the context of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR), T2* mapping is the standard technique for quantitative myocardial iron overload characterization. Based on our knowledge, commercially available software do not quantify iron using a segmental...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: 1. Explain imaging pre-requisites for volumetry and computer-aided detection (CAD). 2. Provide comprehensive overview about differential tumor component quantification in oncology with evidence-based support. 3. Explain about detection and volume...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: The reader will learn basic principles of using pairwise comparison to rank items and compare ranks. The goal is to introduce the reader to gathering and analyzing pairwise comparison data, which has proven to be useful in a many scenarios,...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: Medical databases ensure a panoramic view of certain diseases, allowing for effective health policies in preventing and treating those diseases. Access to all the previous radiological investigations of a patient can help orient physicians when a...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) is still a scarcely understood pathology, with increasing evidence of a diffuse temporal and extra-temporal grey and white matter volume reduction during the disease, both in the ipsilateral and in the contralateral...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Bipolar disorders (BD), formerly known as manic-depressive disorders, are a complex group of severe and chronic neuropsychiatric illnesses defined by a fluctuating course of alternating mania or hypomania and depression that frequently impair...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Uterus measurements are undoubtedly useful for assessing both the treatment and follow-ups of gynaecological patients. Evaluation of the size of the uterus helps describe the development and senescence of the organs, to choose the best procedures...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is an infrequent and aggressive form of extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) . It is generally confined to the brain, eyes, spinal cord and cerebrospinal fluid without demonstrating systemic...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: Practical application of Independent Component Analysis -based data-driven artifact removal methods in a resting-state fMRI...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: In recent years, deep learning has been widely used in the segmentation of adipose tissue in MRI images. In an animal study, four segmentation methods were applied to segment the interscapular BAT of mice[1]. It was shown that the neural networks...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: - To review the surgical technique of Cesarean section. - Describe the normal findings of the anterior uterine wall after cesarean section - To learn the most common acute and chronic...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: • Integration of artificial intelligence tools, holds promise in reducing the gap in precision imaging for CD • Radiomics algorithms provide models to better assess individual patient disease nuances in imaging • By augmenting classic CD...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: To overcome the challenges of the accurate identification of interscapular brown adipose tissue (iBAT), a novel automatic iBAT recognition method was developed by identifying the regions showing significant changes in the dynamic magnetic resonance...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Patients with acute distal radius fracture are prone to suboptimal MRI quality for the following reasons. First, they undergo manual reduction and splinting. With the splint on, wrist-specific coils are not applicable. Secondly, these patients are...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: Like the medical world, interpretation of radiological images has grown in terms of complexity and broadness resulting in the challenge to hold expertise in every specific pathology. Radiologists spend much of their day chasing down information to...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Environmental sustainability is now a central theme in all productive sectors, including. healthcare. In radiology departments, the main contributor to environmental pollution is caused by electricity consumption due to the use of different...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: In cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD), pathological changes of both neuronal activity and vascular responses, yet these factors have not been characterized in a longitudinal fashion using the neurovascular coupling (NVC) method. The aim of this...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Radiomics is a field of medical image analysis that involves extracting clinically meaningful quantitative features from medical images using mathematical algorithms [1] . These features can then be used to develop machine learning (ML) models that...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Quality control is a critical component of diagnostic imaging, particularly in MRI where image artifacts are common. Using AI to automatically identify images with low quality would improve overall patient care by either flagging images that need to...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Our purpose is to develop a predictive model using Machine Learning ( ML ) with pretreatment brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging ( MRI ) data, by predicting remission (absence of depression) following antidepressant treatment, that can assist...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: To review the multiple sclerosis (MS) variants, and other autoimmune demyelinating disorders such as neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD), acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (anti-MOG)...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) is defined as frequent arrhythmic episodes that last between 30 seconds and seven days, which stop spontaneously. This type of atrial fibrillation (AF)—an irregularity of the heart rhythm caused by...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: To review somatic and visceral neuroanatomy of the female pelvis. To identify the pathway of the somatic nerves in volumetric T2 sequences, providing tips for their correct location and using anatomical landmarks sometimes obscure by abdominal...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Prostate Cancer (PCa) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men, alone accounting for 26% of new cancer diagnoses [1]. The Gleason Score (GS) is the gold standard for PCa risk stratification [2]. Based on GS, PCa is usually divided into three...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: This work reviews the main features and clinical applications of 3D biomodels, virtual surgical planning and 3D printing technologies. Image requirements to obtain quality 3D biomodels are discussed as well as the key role of radiologists in this...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: Radiologic education today can be very diverse and everything from structured textbooks to YouTube channels to social media accounts can be found. Peer-reviewed content continues to be recognized as a very high-quality source of information....

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: We aim to identify the type of problems Artificial Intelligence (AI) can solve in the field of medical imaging, as well as to exemplify the different kinds of AI architectures that can be used in...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: Explain the pathophysiology leading to alterations in tractography/DTI of the white matter in migraine patients. Present the alterations in mean diffusivity, radial diffusivity, axial diffusivity, fractional anisotropy and volumes in the white...

Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Purpose: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the hippocampal volume and Alzheimer's disease cortical signature region quantitative measurements in participants with normal cognition (NC), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and dementia...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References, Learning objectives: Describe the characteristic imaging findings in CT and MRI. Recognize the image differentiation of malignant neoplasms from benign...