Detection of Incidental Pulmonary Embolism on Conventional Contrast-Enhanced Chest CT: Comparison of an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm and Clinical Reports. American Journal of Roentgenology ...

The study enrolled 756 patients with clinically suspected pulmonary embolism, of whom 82 were deemed to have high clinical probability of having PE and were sent for CT, which produced positive ...

Ultimately, the commercial AI tool had NPV of 99.8% and PPV of 86.7% for detection of iPE on conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations (i.e., not using CT pulmonary angiography protocols).

At the same time, US deaths from pulmonary embolism dropped only from 12.3 to 11.9 per 100 000.

Patients presenting with low-risk pulmonary embolism are managed in different ways based on CT scan findings and not clinical risk factors, according to study results published in JAMA Network ...

by Liz Bonis & Megan Burgasser, WKRC Wed, October 18th 2023 at 4:28 PM ...

Emergency physicians are still too often turning to CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) to evaluate suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), recent data from two US metropolitan areas indicate. Of more than 1.8 ...

In fact, only about 6% of patients in 2002-2003 had findings of pulmonary embolism, Dr. Prologo said. That compares to about 25% in 1997-1998.

"CT is the nearly universal first-line imaging choice for the diagnosis of PE. This is not surprising considering its accuracy is well established," said Jha. Provided by American Roentgen Ray ...

Software that uses artificial intelligence to flag and triage cases of pulmonary embolism found in chest CT scans has been cleared by the FDA, Israeli radiology AI company Aidoc announced on May 15.