Computed tomography (CT) is a type of medical imaging tool that allows doctors to see inside a person’s body. Doctors may use an abdominal CT scan to look for signs of injury, infection, or disease in ...

A new study suggests that applying a deep learning algorithm to routine abdominal CT scans could help identify fall risk ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of patients receiving abdominal CT scans, an advanced type of X-ray, got them for tests they did not need, exposing them to excess radiation that could raise the ...

Radiologists are beginning to use AI-based computer vision models to help speed up the laborious process of parsing medical scans. However, these models require large amounts of carefully labeled ...

Prediction Rule Can Obviate Abdominal CT Scans in Children Seven factors can accurately predict whether a child with blunt torso trauma is at very low risk of intra-abdominal injuries and can avoid ...

Nikki Noland, 25, experienced abdominal pain, nausea and weight loss, but she was left stunned by what the X-ray scans ...

Despite concerns about exposing patients to excessive amounts of radiation from CT scans, a Massachusetts General Hospital study finds that such tests avoided hospitalization in nearly one in four ...