Tag: AI
Vascular Specialist–April 2024
In this issue:
Bad reading: Worrying new data demonstrate a consistent shortfall of more than a fifth in net revenues over a four-year period...
Adoption of AI into workflow associated with faster time to assessment...
An abstract presented at the 2024 American Venous Forum (AVF) annual meeting (March 3–6) revealed that, in the treatment of patients with pulmonary embolism...
FORS-powered LumiGuide 3D imaging technology is rolled out at specialized centers...
Andres Schanzer, MD, has hailed it "one of the most exciting changes" seen in imaging during the course of his career. Philips’ LumiGuide "human...
Consortium led by vascular surgeon-scientist secures $6.4 million funding to develop...
The European Union Horizon Europe, with joint funding from UK Research Innovation, has awarded the NetZeroAICT Consortium €6 million ($6.4 million) in funding to...
Trial assessing AI-powered tissue microsensor technology in PAD begins enrollment
Sensome has announced enrollment of the first patients into a feasibility clinical study using the Clotild smart guidewire in peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Clotild was designated...
University of Pittsburgh awards $100,000 grant to SVS member for AI-based...
Last October, the University Pittsburgh’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute hosted its 10th Pitt Innovation Challenge (PinCh), providing a total of $550,000 in prizes,...
EVS 2023: Putting artificial intelligence to use in vascular practice
The potential for large language-learning models like ChatGPT to take over tedious writing tasks such as emails and parts of PowerPoint presentations—or even be...
New clinical data support AI solution for improved PE detection and...
Viz.ai has announced new clinical data supporting advancements in pulmonary embolism (PE) detection. Two studies have demonstrated the real-world clinical efficacy of Viz.ai’s PE module to...
First patient treated in global strategic collaboration involving Cydar Maps technology
Cydar Medical has announced the successful treatment of the first patient in a strategic collaboration with Medtronic. The collaboration, which spans 40 sites across...
‘Vascular surgery should be a key member of pulmonary embolism response...
“PERT care is the coalition of the willing,” quipped Dennis Gable, MD, a vascular surgeon at Texas Vascular Associates in Plano, Texas. He was...
New study reports positive performance of AI-powered assessment of biomarkers for...
The characterization of aortic tissue by means of three key biomechanics-based biomarkers bundled into a compound Regional Areas of Weakness (RAW) Map showed “very...
Bias and the silver bullet: Gender partiality seen within AI algorithms...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a central focus within various spheres, from commerce to medicine—including applications in patient care. Sharon Kiang, MD, talks to...
Creating an AI-based tool to help clinicians perform precision AAA analysis
For University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, vascular surgeon Randy Moore, MD, the route to a world of precision care for individual abdominal aortic aneurysm...
STEVECO trial calls into question randomization in the venous stenting field
Recruitment proved to be a major challenge for the STEVECO (Stent versus conservative treatment in patients with deep venous obstruction) randomized controlled trial (RCT),...
Conference watch: Submit research to VRIC, VAM
Submissions already are open for 2023 Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC), which will be May 10, 2023, in Boston. The conference includes abstract sessions,...
Viz.ai announces positive new data from large aortic dissection AI real-world...
Viz.ai recently announced new data from a large aortic dissection artificial intelligence (AI) real-world study that supports the use of its AI technology for the detection...
Artificial intelligence could make endovascular aortic repair outcomes more predictable, CX...
At the 2022 Charing Cross (CX) International Symposium (April 26–28) in London, England, Tom Carrell, MD, a vascular surgeon in Cambridge, England, and founder of...
Philips integrates cloud-based AI and 3D mapping into its mobile C-arm...
Royal Philips has announced physicians will now have access to advanced new 3D image guidance capabilities through its image-guided therapy mobile C-arm system—Zenition. The...
Viz.ai reveals launch of new AI-powered modules for pulmonary embolism, aortic...
Viz.ai—a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intelligent care coordination—today announced the U.S. commercial launch of its AI-powered modules for pulmonary embolism (PE) and...
AI and transforming vascular surgery
The 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) Roy Greenberg Distinguished Lecture saw delegates hear about the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform vascular surgery....
VAM: Spotlight on Thursday
It’s Thursday and the Vascular Annual Meeting is in full swing. Here are some sessions today for you to consider, including the first Presidential...
AI triage solution for PE and aortic dissection receives FDA clearance
Medical imaging artificial intelligence (AI) specialist, Avicenna.AI, recently announced that it has received certification in the U.S. and European Union (EU) for CINA CHEST, its...
Innovation: ISET audience hears what’s on the horizon for CLTI patients
“I am going to give you reasons to be excited about your critical limb practice,” Peter Schneider, MD, professor of vascular and endovascular surgery...
‘Nearly nothing’ in surgery will go untouched by AI, ACS Clinical...
Almost nothing will go untouched by artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and surgery, notably in the quickly evolving world of vascular and endovascular surgery,...
Study shows novel AI technology is better predictor of stroke than...
Boston-based medical technology company Elucid Bio, maker of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared and CE-marked vascuCAP software, announced Wednesday, July 1, that its...
Technology drives vascular future
Decades ago, “picture” phones were an idea straight out of science fiction. As the saying goes, the future is now. FaceTime and Skype are...
Medical education requires a reboot in the digital age, argues stent-grafting...
LAS VEGAS—Medical education is confronted by huge opportunities with the coming of what has been termed the fourth industrial revolution—that of the intersection where...