Women's Health

The women’s health channel includes news, videos, podcasts and other content related to technology used to detect and treat breast cancer and cervical cancer, including mammography, breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), automated breast ultrasound (ABUS), breast ultrasound, breast biopsy and breast radiation therapy.

Mammograms of a 49-year-old woman with invasive lobular carcinoma on the right-side breast

News | Artificial Intelligence

AI-assisted Radiologists Can Detect More Breast Cancer with Reduced False-positive Recall

February 11, 2020 — A new study, published in Lancet Digital Health, shows the added value of AI-aided breast cancer ...

February 11, 2020

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itnTV Conversations: How AI Factors Into Efforts to Detect Breast Cancer

ProFound AI is an FDA-cleared artificial intelligence (AI) system for reading 3-D breast tomosynthesis images. At RSNA19 ...

February 06, 2020

Advances in Mammography, Breast imaging.

Feature | Breast Imaging | By Barbara Smith

Technologies to Watch in Breast Imaging

Women in the United States have a 1 in 8 (or about 13 percent) lifetime risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer ...

February 03, 2020

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Webinar | Mammography

WEBINAR: Advanced Diagnostic Technology for Accurate Imaging

The COVID-19 pandemic had a huge impact on the radiology community. Hospitals, doctors’ offices and clinics found ...

March 03, 2022

News | Breast Imaging

University of Chicago Offers Mammosphere from Life Image to Support WISDOM Study Participants, Improve Research

January 29, 2020 — Life Image announced that it will provide Mammosphere, a breast health data access tool, to the ...

January 29, 2020

ringing the cancer bell can do more harm than good, says an ASTRO study

News | Radiation Oncology

Is it Time to Stop Ringing the Cancer Bell?

January 27, 2020 — It's a scene that some cancer patients dream about: they celebrate the end of a course of radiation ...

January 27, 2020

A 50-y-old postmenopausal woman with fibroadenoma (arrows) in left breast

News | PET-MRI

PET/MRI Identifies Notable Breast Cancer Imaging Biomarkers

January 27, 2020 — Researchers have identified several potentially useful breast cancer biomarkers that indicate the ...

January 27, 2020

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Videos | Artificial Intelligence

VIDEO: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Radiologists Workflow

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more common place in radiology practices, and emerging technologies are ...

November 11, 2020

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itnTV "Conversations:" Latest Advancements in Fujifilm 3-D Mammography

Imaging Technology News Contributing Editor Greg Freiherr interviewed Henry Izawa, vice president of modality solutions ...

January 24, 2020

Virtual reality during chemotherapy has been shown to improve breast cancer patients’ quality of life during the most stressful treatments

News | Virtual and Augmented Reality

First Italian-American Study on Virtual Reality and Breast Cancer Shows Promising Results

January 21, 2020 — Virtual reality during chemotherapy has been shown to improve breast cancer patients’ quality of life ...

January 21, 2020

This is a lung X-ray reviewed automatically by artificial intelligence (AI) to identify a collapsed lung (pneumothorax) in the color coded area. This AI app from Lunit is awaiting final FDA review and in planned to be integrated into several vendors' mobile digital radiography (DR) systems. Fujifilm showed this software integrated as a work-in-progress into its mobile X-ray system at RSNA 2019. GE Healthcare has its own version of this software for its mobile r=ray systems that gained FDA in 2019. #RSNA #

Feature | RSNA | Dave Fornell, Editor

Photo Gallery of New Imaging Technologies at RSNA 2019

Here are images of some of the newest new medical imaging technologies displayed on the expo floor at the Radiological ...

January 20, 2020

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Table 1. Compared to 2-D mammography, which yields four images per patient, digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), or 3-D mammography, produces hundreds of images per patient. While this provides more information for clinicians, the exponential increase in data can result in reader fatigue and burnout, which may ultimately affect patient care.

Case Study | Artificial Intelligence

From Surviving to Thriving: How Regional Medical Imaging Enhanced Productivity

As the largest independent imaging group in Michigan with 10 locations across the state, Regional Medical Imaging (RMI) ...

April 09, 2020

Videos | RSNA

VIDEO: Editors Choice of the Most Innovative New Radiology Technology at RSNA 2019

ITN Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most innovative new medical imaging technologies displayed on the ...

January 13, 2020

The study found that DBN laws helped some women understand they had increased breast density, but not that breast density is associated with a higher risk of breast cancer or that dense breasts limit the ability of mammograms to detect cancer

News | Breast Density

Breast Density Notification Laws not Effective for all Women

January 9, 2020 — A new study suggests that state-mandated notifications on mammogram reports intended to inform women ...

January 09, 2020

Videos | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

VIDEO: Use of Cardiac MRI in Congenital and Women's Heart Disease

Karen Ordovas, M.D., MAS, professor of radiology and cardiology at the University of California San Francisco (UCFS) ...

January 06, 2020

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Figure 1. R MLO view from four different years. The skin mole is marked with a circular skin marker (TomoSPOT REF# 782, Beekley Medical) on the far-left image. These images demonstrate the potential for significant variability in location of the skin lesion due to movability of the skin during positioning.

Case Study | Breast Imaging

Use of Mole Markers in DBT Improves Clinical Workflow and Patient Safety

Christina Jacobs, M.D., Director of Breast Imaging (Bronson Health System) is always looking for ways to work more ...

April 09, 2020

Sponsored Content | Videos | Digital Radiography (DR)

itnTV "Conversations": How Konica Minolta Goes From Images to Insight

At RSNA19, David Widmann, president and CEO of Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, discussed innovation, stressing the ...

January 03, 2020

Videos | MRI Breast

VIDEO: Use of Breast MRI Improved Cancer Detection in Dense Breasts in Dutch Study

Gillian Newstead, M.D., director of global breast imaging and former professor at the University of Chicago, explains a ...

December 26, 2019

Patient inclusion flowchart shows selection of women in the training and validation samples used for deep neural network development, as well as in the test sample (current study sample). Exclusions are detailed in the footnote. PACS = picture archiving and communication system. Image courtesy of Radiological Society of North America.

News | Artificial Intelligence

AI Improves Breast Cancer Risk Prediction

December 17, 2019 — A sophisticated type of artificial intelligence (AI) can outperform existing models at predicting ...

December 18, 2019

A new market report focuses on breast imaging devices, paying special attention to their recent emergence

News | Breast Imaging

Global Breast Imaging Device Market Forecast

December 17, 2019 — The "Breast Imaging Device Market Size, Outlook and Growth Opportunities, 2019- 2025" report is now ...

December 17, 2019

Researchers recently conducted the largest population-based long-term retrospective analysis of non-cancer causes of death among patients with breast cancer

News | Clinical Trials

Study Examines Causes of Death in U.S. Breast Cancer Survivors

December 16, 2019 — Survival rates for patients with breast cancer have improved significantly in the last four decades ...

December 17, 2019

Timothy Whelan is a professor of oncology at McMaster University and a radiation oncologist at the Juravinski Cancer Centre of Hamilton Health Sciences. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Breast Cancer Research. Photo courtesy McMaster University

News | Breast Imaging

Long-term Study Finds Faster Breast Cancer Radiation Treatment as Effective as Long Course

December 6, 2019 — A shorter course of higher-dose radiation treatment to part of the breast is showing promise in women ...

December 06, 2019

#RSNA19 GE Healthcare introduced Serena Bright, the healthcare industry’s first contrast-enhanced mammography solution for biopsy

News | Mammography

GE Healthcare Unveils Novel Contrast-enhanced Mammography Solution for Biopsy

November 30, 2019 — To help empower clinicians and patients in their fight against breast cancer, GE Healthcare ...

November 30, 2019

This bar graph shows breast cancer presentation by screening interval #RSNA19

News | Breast Imaging

Biennial Mammography Screening Yields More Advanced-stage Cancers

November 28, 2019 — Cancers found in patients undergoing annual mammography screening are smaller and less advanced than ...

November 28, 2019