Explainable AI Fuses MRI and Texture Features to Stage Alzheimer’s Disease
An explainable transformer model fusing MRI with texture descriptors reached over 99 percent accuracy in Alzheimer's disease staging benchmarks, with ...
Tag: MRI
Nanomedicine Aims to Sharpen Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
A new open-access review in Cancer Nanotechnology surveys how nanomaterials could improve colorectal cancer diagnosis, targeted therapy, and personalized theranostics.
Bone Collagen Fibers Fall Into Disarray Within Weeks of Diabetes Onset in Rats
Within two weeks of diabetes onset, rats showed significantly disorganized femoral collagen fibers despite unchanged bone mineral measures, with the ...
Double Inversion Recovery MRI Spots More Spinal Cord Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis
In a cross-sectional study of 100 multiple sclerosis patients, 3-Tesla double inversion recovery MRI detected more cervical cord lesions with ...
Quantitative MRI T2* mapping distinguishes normal, partial, and complete ACL tears
A prospective comparative study found ACL T2* mapping values increased significantly across MRI-defined normal, partial-tear, and complete-tear categories, though diagnostic ...
New Mamba-based AI model segments brain tumors faster and more accurately
A new 3D Mamba-based model segments brain tumors with consistent accuracy gains and a 15x efficiency improvement over existing state-of-the-art ...
Wilson’s Disease Masqueraded as a Leukodystrophy in a Teenager
A 13-year-old boy's frontal-lobe white matter disease, initially suspected to be Alexander disease, was diagnosed as Wilson's disease after genetic ...
AI Shows Promise for Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis, Review Finds Validation Gaps
A systematic review of 26 studies finds AI models diagnosing multiple sclerosis with over 95 percent accuracy in some cases, ...
Liver MRI Scans Reveal Low Muscle Mass in Many Fontan Patients
A retrospective study found low skeletal muscle mass on existing liver MRI scans in 30% of children and 21% of ...
AI Pipeline Turns Brain MRI Saliency Maps into Diagnostic Reports
A benchmark study couples CNN saliency maps, a cortical atlas and three LLMs to generate interpretable diagnostic reports from brain ...
Ultrasound and Shear Wave Elastography Lead Review of Foot Tissue Measurement Techniques
A systematic review of 37 studies finds shear wave elastography and ultrasound have the strongest, though still incomplete, clinimetric evidence ...
Tenosynovitis on imaging emerges as early warning sign of rheumatoid arthritis
A narrative review finds imaging-detected tenosynovitis is an early pathological event in inflammatory arthritis and a strong predictor of rheumatoid ...
Choroid Plexus Ablation Eases Hydrocephalus Brain Swelling in Mice
A viral gene therapy that ablates the cerebrospinal fluid-producing choroid plexus prevented hydrocephalus-related brain swelling in mice while moderately reducing ...
Imaging Modality, Not a Single Blueprint, Defines How Theranostics Work
A narrative review argues that the imaging modality—PET, SPECT, ultrasound, MRI, CT, or optical—fundamentally determines the design, mechanism, and clinical ...
Body Fat May Set the Stage for Lymphedema, Researchers Propose
A new hypothesis paper proposes that the volume of subcutaneous fat present before lymphatic injury may determine whether lymphedema develops ...
Graph Neural Network Maps Local Brain Aging Across the Cortex in Health and Alzheimer’s Disease
A graph neural network trained on more than 14,000 brain scans maps local cortical aging at millimeter resolution and links ...
Hair Braiding Triggered Rare Subperiosteal Scalp Hematoma in 10-Year-Old Boy
Imaging of a 10-year-old boy with scalp swelling after hair braiding revealed a rare subperiosteal hematoma that mimicked a vascular ...
Children Prenatally Exposed to Cannabis Show Thinner Cortex in Frontal and Parietal Regions
A small prospective study found that seven- to eight-year-old children with prenatal cannabis exposure showed reduced cortical thickness in frontal ...
Volleyball Study Finds Leg Dominance Shapes Balance and Landing Knee Loads
A study of twenty elite female volleyball players found dominant-leg balance advantages under eyes-closed conditions, limb-specific landing asymmetries, and higher ...
Early Spinal Muscle Loss Emerges as Hidden Driver of Muscular Dystrophy
MRI studies of patients and dysferlinopathic mice reveal early fatty degeneration of spinal muscles driven by adipogenic progenitors, with GSK3 ...
