A useful radiology report

Effective dose: a useful concept in diagnostic radiology.

Effective dose (E) was introduced by the International Commission of Radiological Protection (ICRP) to provide a summation of radiation doses to tissues and organs for radiological protection. For a non-uniform irradiation, E is designed to provide an estimate of the corresponding uniform whole-body dose that would result in the same stochastic detriment. E, which has the same units as equivale...

Chest radiology in cystic fibrosis: is scoring useful?

Effectively Crowdsourcing Radiology Report Annotations

Crowdsourcing platforms are a popular choice for researchers to gather text annotations quickly at scale. We investigate whether crowdsourced annotations are useful when the labeling task requires medical domain knowledge. Comparing a sentence classification model trained with expert-annotated sentences to the same model trained on crowd-labeled sentences, we find the crowdsourced training data...

Radiology by nonradiologists: is report documentation adequate?

OBJECTIVE To determine if the quality of medical imaging reports differs significantly between radiologists and nonradiologists. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective nonblinded review of randomly selected chest and long bone x-ray reports by orthopedists and primary care physicians compared with randomly selected imaging reports generated by radiologists. METHODS We randomly selected 1 report from ...

The radiology report of the future.