Imaging COVID-19 News
Chest CT Demand Steady as Dose Levels Fall Post-COVID
2025 11 Oct
Computed tomography (CT) became central to diagnosing and monitoring COVID-19, reshaping chest imaging workflows across hospitals. Analysis of routine operational data from ten public hospitals spanning January 2019 to December 2024 shows how volumes and dose metrics evolved from the pre-pandemic period through the pandemic and into the post-1 Read more
DL Outperforms Radiomics in Chest X-Ray Classification
2025 05 Oct
Artificial intelligence is reshaping chest radiography by automating complex image interpretation tasks and supporting multi-class diagnosis. Two prominent strategies are compared side by side: radiomics, which extracts handcrafted quantitative features, and deep learning, which learns hierarchical representations directly from images using c1 Read more
Best Practices for Post-COVID-19 Chest CT
2025 28 Jul
Post-COVID-19 condition, often referred to as long COVID, affects a significant number of individuals who recover from SARS-CoV-2 infection, particularly those with moderate to severe pneumonia. Persistent respiratory symptoms and chest CT abnormalities are common among these patients. However, the lack of unified terminology and standardised1 Read more
Remote Breast Imaging Gains Ground
2025 28 Jul
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work reshaped many sectors of healthcare. Radiology, already well-positioned for off-site work due to its digital nature, witnessed significant adoption of home-based reading practices. Breast imaging, however, presents distinct challenges due to its close patient interaction and highly regula1 Read more
Spectral CT Reveals Airway Differences in Pneumonia Subtypes
2025 20 Jun
Quantitative computed tomography (CT) has become a valuable tool in assessing lung diseases, offering precise insights into airway alterations that are otherwise challenging to visualise. While traditionally applied to chronic conditions such as COPD and interstitial lung disease, its use in acute infections has expanded significantly since t1 Read more
Pleural Effusion in COVID-19 Patients
2024 07 Oct
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted global healthcare systems, with patient outcomes varying widely from asymptomatic cases to severe illnesses, resulting in high mortality. Understanding which factors contribute to poor prognosis is crucial in managing the disease effectively. Chest imaging has been pivotal in diagnosing and asse1 Read more
Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Lung Health in Diabetic Patients
2024 30 Jul
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the complex interplay between pre-existing health conditions and disease outcomes. One of the critical areas of concern has been the impact of diabetes on the severity and prognosis of COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, it became evident that individuals with diabetes were at a higher risk of severe illness1 Read more
How ‘invitations’ from Penn Medicine Restored Mammogram Completion Rates
2024 23 May
The first few waves of COVID-19 slowed life across the United States, affecting everything from attending school to eating out for dinner and going on vacation. Segments of health care were also affected: Services that were not considered immediately crucial to fighting the virus were slowed or stopped during the pandemic’s first wave. 1 Read more
Revised EUSOBI Guidelines on Axillary Lymphadenopathy After COVID-19 Vaccination
2024 06 Mar
Axillary lymphadenopathy is a common side effect of the COVID-19 vaccination, leading to increased imaging-detected asymptomatic and symptomatic unilateral axillary lymphadenopathy. This has threatened to negatively impact the workflow of breast imaging services, leading to the release of ten recommendations by the European Society of Breast I1 Read more
Women's Health Remains in Crisis Worldwide Even as COVID-19 Pandemic Wanes
2024 16 Jan
Third annual Hologic Global Women’s Health Index shows billions of women untested for life-threatening conditions, emotional health worsening and nearly 1 billion women living with physical pain. The world faces an emergency in women’s health even as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, according to one of the largest annual updates on women’1 Read more
Groundbreaking MRI Unveils Brain Changes in Individuals with Long-COVID
2023 24 Nov
New research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), reveals distinctive brain changes in individuals with long COVID, different to those who have fully recovered from COVID-19. Long COVID sufferers experience a wide variety of different symptoms which may persist for long time af1 Read more
The Need to Address Missed and Delayed Cancer Screenings During the Pandemic
2023 28 Sep
In a recent report, published in the journal Cancer, researchers have documented a significant decline in cancer screenings and subsequent diagnoses in the United States during the initial stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. There were notable decreases in the number of newly diagnosed cases across six types of cancer including colorectal, female bre1 Read more
Association of COVID-19 Pandemic Measures and Cancer Screening
2022 19 Jul
According to GLOBOCAN estimates, 19.3 million new cancer cases and 10 million cancer deaths occurred in 2020 due to breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer, the first, third, and seventh-most prevalent cancers worldwide. Cancer screening programmes help detect cancer at early stages and can lead to decreased mortality. In the past few years, 1 Read more
#ECR2022: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Radiology
2022 14 Jul
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in January 2020. Radiologists have played a critical role in patient management and COVID-19 diagnosis since the beginning of this pandemic. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) remains the standard of reference for COVID-19 de1 Read more
Contrast Agent Shortage Sends Ripples through Radiology
2022 23 May
Radiology departments react to a shortage of iodinated contrast media from GE Healthcare, caused by an unexpected COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, China. GE Healthcare’s manufacturing plant in Shanghai produces the iodinated contrast media, Omnipaque (iohexol) and Visipaque (iodixanol), which are used to enhance computed tomography and other imaging1 Read more
How Europeans Use PPE in Ultrasound Varies Widely
2022 15 Feb
According to a recent study published in Insights into Imaging , European radiologists providing face-to-face ultrasound services widely vary in their use of personal protective equipment (PPE). The current risks of COVID-19 exposure without PPE make this a concern for radiologists. According to a report by the Radiology Section of the European U1 Read more
Xenon MRI Reveals Lung Damage in Long COVID Patients
2022 01 Feb
Many patients experience ongoing symptoms following a COVID-19 infection. These are characterised under the umbrella term 'long-COVID', of which one of the most common is breathlessness. It is unclear whether the breathlessness is linked to changes in breathing patterns, tiredness, or lung damage. The EXPLAIN project, involving teams at Sheff1 Read more
COVID-19 Pandemic Alters Paediatric Radiology
2021 29 Dec
According to a report published in Academic Radiology , the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the demographics and clinical composition of exams in paediatric radiology practice. Massachusetts General Hospital researchers quantified changes between pre-pandemic (15 September 2019 to 15 March 2020) and pandemic (15 March 2020 to 1 May 2020) perio1 Read more
ESR Postpones Onsite 2022 Meeting to July
2021 11 Dec
Given the ongoing challenges brought about by the global pandemic, the European Society of Radiology (ESR) President Prof Dr Regina Beets-Tan announced on Friday that ESR will postpone the annual ESR 2022 meeting in Vienna to 13-17 July. She explains: ‘we are currently confronted with significant legal uncertainty regarding the organisation o1 Read more
RSNA President Urges Radiology to Refine Itself
2021 30 Nov
RSNA President, Dr Mary Mahoney, at RSNA 2021’s opening session Sunday afternoon, urged radiology to use lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to refine itself as a ‘value-based, service-oriented specialty’. Dr Mahoney’s lecture focused on using the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 crisis to move forward. The pandemic uncovered weaknesses in1 Read more