(HealthDay News) — Chest computed tomography (CT) is increasingly being used, and can provide additional insight, in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to research published in ...

Lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Screening with low dose computed tomography (called low dose CT or LDCT) can save lives for people at high risk for this ...

Figure 1: Treatment timeline with chest computed tomography (CT) and brain magnetic resonance images (MRI) on osimertinib. (A) Pretreatment CT chest, demonstrating 18 mm spiculated mass in the left ...

Although computed tomography (CT) of the chest is generally used for diagnostic purposes, a study in Radiology suggests that incidental findings may identify persons at risk for cardiovascular disease ...

A new virtual tool helps overstressed and overworked doctors sharpen their skills at making a timely diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia based on the characteristic lung signs on computerized tomography ...

Long-term quality of life and symptoms are similar in patients with chest pain regardless of whether they’re first evaluated by computed tomography (CT) or by invasive coronary angiography (ICA), ...

Several new studies present peer-reviewed cases of COVID-19 in order to ensure that the disease is diagnosed as rapidly as possible, and thus help prevent an overwhelming spike in infections in any ...

Retrospective study of CRC who underwent computed tomography (CT) chest, abdomen, and pelvis between July 1, 2009, and March 26, 2019, at a tertiary cancer center, previously labeled for the presence ...

Incidental coronary artery calcium (CAC)—often at substantial levels as quantified by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm—is commonly found on nongated computed tomography (CT) chest scans done ...

A research team has developed a versatile machine learning model that could one day greatly expand what medical scans can ...