A chest X-ray can usually detect active tuberculosis (TB) but not latent TB. In either case, you’ll need a sputum test to confirm a diagnosis. Doctors often use chest X-rays to help diagnose active ...

Some insurance creates perverse incentives that discourage patients from seeking care — sometimes turning minor, treatable ...

Every year, approximately 2 billion chest X-rays are performed around the world. They are affordable, quick, and often used in frontline healthcare to efficiently survey for abnormalities such as ...

The chest radiography (X-ray) test, which has been a basic component of the National Health Screening for citizens aged 20 and above, will be significantly reduced to target only those aged 50 and ...

Morton Kern, MD, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in cardiology. Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of ...

Samsung’s U.S. radiology division has tapped the South Korean artificial intelligence developer Lunit to supply its chest X-ray scanners with programs that automatically highlight critical conditions.

The target group for the "chest radiography (X-ray) examination," which had previously been uniformly conducted as part of the national health ...

Seoul National University Hospital researchers have come up with an AI model that can both classify and explain bone densities in chest X-ray images. The research team collected data from ...