An AI tool for detection of incidental pulmonary embolus (iPE) on conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations had high NPV and moderate PPV, even finding some iPEs missed by radiologists.

Overdiagnosis of pulmonary emboli might seem counterintuitive, but the harms are real, including risks from anticoagulation therapy, radiation exposure, and nephrotoxicity.

Artificial intelligence now has a new use in medicine. It’s helping to diagnose blood clots suspected in the lungs.

Chest CT angiograms ordered to diagnose PE in the emergency department find twice as many pulmonary nodules, adenopathies, and other abnormalities as embolisms, causing a lot of anxiety for patients.

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 ...

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 ...

According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), an AI tool for detection of incidental pulmonary embolus (iPE) on conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations had high NPV ...

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.

There has been a striking increase in the number of patients undergoing CT examinations of the chest to look for clots in the lung (pulmonary embolism) over recent years, especially through the ...

Since 50% of patients admitted to the ED with deep vein thrombosis, should it be common practice to do a chest CT prior to discharge?