August 16, 2022

JACR® Resident Highlights — August 2022

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Breast Imaging: An Analysis of the National Mammography Database
Here you will find an interesting account of how breast imaging volume was affected throughout the course of the pandemic. Spoiler: Screening mammography has still not returned to baseline levels.

Federated Learning in Medical Imaging

These articles describe how a machine learning model can be transferred between separate medical centers allowing for pooling of multiple data sets (necessary for adequate training) without sharing sensitive data.

The Donut of Truth
This is a fun opinion piece showing the harms of overreliance and overestimation of what exactly our CT and MRI scanners can do.

Clinical Diagnoses and Outcomes After Diagnostic Breast Ultrasound by Nurses and General Practitioner Physicians in Rural Rwanda
This article takes a contentious topic and looks at it in a country where there is a real need for expanded healthcare access.