Screening for disease, including cancer, can cause harm —during screening, diagnosis and treatment. With lung cancer ...

The new lung cancer screening program needs to be independently evaluated to keep it on track, and to minimise the harms.

This research aims to present a suitable method for feature extraction from chest CT scan images to enhance the accuracy and speed of detecting the coronavirus. In today's world, the role of ...

Lung cancer becomes one of the diseases with a high mortality rate. The identification of lung nodules as a representation of lung cancer becomes a very important part. One method of identifying lung ...

Objectives To examine the accuracy and impact of artificial intelligence (AI) software assistance in lung cancer screening using CT. Methods A systematic review of CE-marked, AI-based software for ...

BACKGROUND Low attenuation areas (LAA) on computed tomographic (CT) scans have been shown to represent emphysematous changes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the ...

Your scan may reveal a nodule on your lungs, but that doesn’t mean that you have cancer. Nodules are found in up to half of adults who have a chest X-ray or CT scan of the lungs. [3] But, less ...

Your scan may reveal a nodule on your lungs, but that doesn’t mean that you have cancer. Nodules are found in up to half of adults who have a chest X-ray or CT scan of the lungs. But, less than ...

The woman's first CT scan was ordered after she had a consultation with the respirologist in November 2023. At that time, the paperwork for the scan indicated that it was for lung cancer screening ...

For example, low-dose chest CT scans performed for lung cancer screening use lower doses than multi-phase abdominal/pelvic CT scans that are required to stage a person with pancreatic cancer.