Category: Imaging & mpMRI

When you think of Sweden—which you probably don’t do often—what springs to mind? Maybe it’s tall blonde people, IKEA, or those cute painted horse carvings. Perhaps you picture Hollywood legends Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman, or you recall the cocktail party where the hostess served tasty Swedish meatballs. If you’re a music lover, you can keep reading

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) has boomed with countless applications in virtually every field of technology and learning, medicine is also benefitting. A branch of AI called Deep Learning (DL) is modeled after the layers of neural networks involved in the brain’s learning processes. By layering algorithms, to process data, DL mimics how the brain thinks, keep reading

If you’ve been diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer, chances are your doctor has said you may be a candidate for Active Surveillance (AS). The National Cancer Institute defines AS as a cancer management strategy to avoid or delay treatments with side effect risks. It “involves closely watching a patient’s condition but not giving any treatment keep reading

Once called the sport of kings, thoroughbred racing is not as popular as it once was. Still, every once in a while, a racing event comes along that sparks public interest and imagination. Secretariat, the 1973 winner of racing’s Triple Crown, was so famous that year that he made the June 11 cover of Time. keep reading

If your PSA is unusually high or your digital rectal exam finds an abnormality, how do you know if it’s prostate cancer? Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is now the universally preferred noninvasive method for identifying prostate cancer (PCa) prior to having a biopsy. In the years leading up to this, researchers worked toward agreement over keep reading

Who doesn’t love to save millions of dollars? Multiparametric MRI offers huge savings in healthcare spending by ruling out need for a prostate biopsy—not to mention saving thousands of men the anxiety of being rushed into something unpleasant that may be totally unnecessary. keep reading

With an ever-increasing array of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in radiology, it’s a boom time for turning MRI into a powerhouse. In particular, both machine learning (ML) and deep learning (a particular type of ML) enable MRI of the prostate to branch out in new radiological directions. Out with the old, in with the new. keep reading

Do you use products labeled as eco-friendly? As a consumer, do you spend your dollars on goods and services that claim to do less (or no) damage to the environment? If so, you have joined the multitude of individuals who are aware that personal choices and actions can impact air and water pollution. Since the keep reading

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common non-skin cancer in men, and it’s one of the most curable if it’s detected early. In addition, the American Cancer Society points out, “Catching cancer early often allows for more treatment options.” This is definitely true for PCa, since the number of available treatment methods has grown in keep reading

Since the early 1990s, prostate needle biopsy using transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guidance has been the reigning method for diagnosing prostate cancer. Compared to prior biopsy methods, it was a relative walk in the park. Transrectal ultrasound not only made prostate biopsy less invasive, it also had... keep reading