Brian Casey

What strategies are imaging facilities using to bring eligible people in to get CT lung cancer screening? Several effective techniques were shared in a recent issue of the @jacrjournal.bsky.social. Read our coverage at theimagingwire.com/2026/10/25/r.... #radiology

What are Azra AI’s plans for its new acquisition, AI platform company Blackford Analysis? Azra AI sees Blackford as a key piece to leverage AI to ensure that patients with incidental findings or a cancer diagnosis don’t fall through healthcare’s cracks. Read more at bit.ly/4yYCEis. #radiology

A new HPI commentary challenges a JAMA Health Forum claim that declining imaging use has allowed the U.S. to meet demand without more radiologists. Recent Medicare data tell a different story: CT ↑38% and MRI ↑26% from 2016–2024. #Radiology #HealthPolicy www.neimanhpi.org/press-releas...

A new international study testing AI’s performance in analyzing prostate MRI exams could lay the groundwork for the technology’s broader role in prostate cancer screening. Read more at theimagingwire.com/2026/10/14/t.... #radiology #RadSky #MRI

Board presidency caps Dr. Canon's years of service as an ABR volunteer. www.theabr.org/beam/from-th...

One of radiology’s longest-running mysteries was resolved late last week when a U.S. private equity firm acquired Blackford Analysis from Bayer. Sopris Capital said it would fold Blackford into another radiology AI property it owns, Azra AI. Read more at theimagingwire.com/2026/10/11/s...

BREAKING NEWS -- Italian medical imaging company Esaote has been acquired by Chinese technology firm Midea Group. Esaote will be folded into Midea's Healthcare Division and will continue to operate as an independent company led by CEO Franco Fontana. Read more at www.esaote.com/en-BE/esaote...

Is AI ready for widespread use in mammography screening? That question was the focus of a point-counterpoint debate in AJR that discussed the pros and cons of broad-based clinical AI deployment for one of #radiology’s most high-profile exams. Read more at theimagingwire.com/2026/10/04/w....

A new study in JACR aims to fill that gap on real-world AI by detailing how AI adoption at a large imaging network in Europe affected key radiology performance metrics. Read more at bit.ly/4iZkXKC. #radiology #ImagingAI

Could opportunistic screening be driving the evolution of low-dose CT from a screening test just for lung cancer into a broader one-stop exam for multiple chest pathologies? A new study in JACR suggests as much. Read more at theimagingwire.com/2026/09/27/e... #radiology

@medscape.com is taking a poll on the USPSTF's decision to add more specialist physicians to the panel. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... #USPSTF

Nobody likes having to repeat a task, and nowhere is that more evident than in MRI. A new study in JACR quantifies the operational toll of MRI scans that have to be repeated due to patient motion, revealing both good news and bad news. Read more at theimagingwire.com/top-stories/. #MRI #radiology

Image of basal ganglia with 11.7T MRI from @jamaneurology.com. The hyperintensities within the SN (arrowheads) are associated with the signal of intact nigrosome. Read more at jamanetwork.com/journals/jam.... #MRI #radiology #neurology

A Pennsylvania hospital network described the current demand for advanced imaging as "unprecedented." www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

Radiology has long had a complicated relationship with the USPSTF, mostly due to its conservative stances on cancer screening and the adoption of new imaging technologies. Will that change with a radiologist now serving on the panel? Read more at theimagingwire.com/top-stories/ #radiology

BREAKING NEWS -- In a major milestone for radiology, radiologist Dennis Wulfeck has been named as one of eight new panelists on the USPSTF. Radiology now has a seat at the table as new screening guidelines are made. Read more in Monday's edition of The Imaging Wire, or go to lnkd.in/g-BmTtkY.

Really disturbing story from @statnews.com on lingering impact on 2025 DOGE cuts on FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/09/17/f...

Much work remains to make LDCT lung cancer screening available to as many eligible people as possible while optimizing scanning protocols. That’s according to sessions at @iaslc.bsky.social's #WCLC26. Read more at bit.ly/4hdMrd5. #radiology

Radiologist Dr. Nicole Saphier is facing the US Senate today in her confirmation hearings for Surgeon General. Here's an interesting take on it: #radiology www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/h...

The FDA updated its list of regulatory authorizations for AI-enabled medical devices, covering approvals granted through the end of June 2026. The new numbers show #radiology maintaining its strong lead over other medical specialties. Check it out at bit.ly/4yz1apI. #MedSky

AI developer Harrison.ai is expanding its business model by supporting a teleradiology venture called Frontier Radiology that’s scaling up and hiring radiologists. But the move drew unwanted attention from a critical article in the Australian news media this week. Read more at bit.ly/4xdsybR.

Big news for a respected voice in #radiology ... news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2026/09...

Big news at UCLA's theranostics program ... www.newswise.com/articles/nuc...

A “mass exodus” of radiologists from the VA’s medical center in Washington, DC, represents just the tip of the iceberg for the VA's personnel woes. Other VA centers have seen similar departures, and the VA’s teleradiology program appears to be buckling under the strain. Read more at bit.ly/4qWriZh.

What does the human brain look like on psilocybin mushrooms? Researchers performed fMRI and EEG tests on 62 people, measuring brain responses to stimuli like meditation, movies, and music. 50% of participants “ranked the experience among the most meaningful of their lives.” More at bit.ly/4x7tOgx.

New results were presented this weekend on a PET radiopharmaceutical being developed by Bayer for imaging cardiac amyloidosis. The tracer turned in promising results in a paper at #ESCcongress and published simultaneously in @jama.com. Read more at theimagingwire.com/2026/08/30/p....

Dr. Kardashian will see you now ... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w... #radiology

Radiologists enjoyed faster salary growth than physicians overall in the latest salary survey from Doximity. Radiologists also moved up several positions on the list of highest-paid doctors. Read more at theimagingwire.com/2026/08/26/r... #radiology

Excellent new article on @kffhealthnews.org examines reimbursement difficulties for women approved for breast MRI. kffhealthnews.org/health-care-... #radiology #MRI

Are you a radiologist who has recently left the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health system? We are updating our story at theimagingwire.com/2026/08/19/v... on radiologist departures from the VA and would like to speak with you on or off the record. Send me a DM if you'd like to get in touch.

Could MRI one day reduce the need to biopsy some patients with suspected prostate cancer before they get treatment? U.K. researchers raise that intriguing prospect in a new study in EJR. Read more at bit.ly/4zrR2Au. #radiology #RadSky

A new federal investigation confirms that a “mass exodus” of radiologists occurred at the VA hospital in Washington, DC, causing a backlog of imaging exams. The departures occurred in response to “return-to-office” requirements. Read more at bit.ly/4cABqkn. #radiology #RadSky

Pediatric CT for surveillance of traumatic brain injury should be limited as much as possible due to the radiation it delivers to young patients, says an article in @jamapediatrics.com. Rapid MRI should be considered instead for follow-up. Read more at bit.ly/4x4C5Tz. #radiology #RadSky

Adoption of low-dose CT lung cancer screening is growing, and that’s a good thing. But rising LDCT use is also creating new challenges, illustrated by a new study in JACR that found high variability in radiologist interpretations. Read more at theimagingwire.com/2026/08/12/h.... #radiology

While many countries have added MRI to prostate cancer workup to determine which patients need the needle, pre-biopsy MRI is used in only about one-third of U.S. prostate cancer workups – why? Insight Links editor Virginia Hunt explores this in an article at bit.ly/4zaPlY9 #MRI #radiology

BREAKING NEWS: Teledyne Technologies Incorporated has agreed to acquire digital X-ray component manufacturer Varex Imaging Corporation in a deal worth $1.1B. www.reuters.com/technology/t... #radiology #XRay

A new five-star system for rating CT image quality is described in a new paper in EJR and could help #radiology practices reduce radiation dose by establishing an easy-to-understand global metric. theimagingwire.com/2026/08/09/f...

Radiologists are taking longer to interpret medical images than they did 10 years ago … and it appears to be getting worse. New data from @neimanhpi.bsky.social, published in @jacrjournal.bsky.social, show turnaround times rose 27% between 2023 and 2024. Read more at bit.ly/4z6jE2c. #radiology

A new report claims that radiologists fled the VA health system after the agency eliminated policies allowing remote work in 2025. The article claims that plummeting morale continues to plague the health system’s radiologists. Read more at theimagingwire.com/2026/08/02/r.... #radiology

This is really sad. prospect.org/2026/07/30/v...

Some good news arrived this week in the campaign to reduce CT radiation dose. A new nationwide survey in Radiology found that radiation dose from CT scans has fallen markedly over the past decade in the U.S. Read more at bit.ly/4wyqVWQ. #radiology #RadSky

About 20.6M people worldwide were diagnosed with cancer in 2024, a nearly 7% increase from 2020, WHO.int estimates. The number is sobering, and while a new report revealed progress is being made, it isn’t being made equally. Read more at bit.ly/4foZnwW. #cancer #oncology

Mammography screening exams are some of the most challenging medical images to interpret, but many mammograms are read by general radiologists. AI-based workflow can help close the gap, leading to a 25% improvement in the cancer detection rate for general radiologists. Read more at bit.ly/4pPF9jC.

Ultrasound long ago carved out a role in breast cancer screening as a complementary tool to conventional 2D mammography. But is ultrasound still needed, now that U.S. breast screening programs have largely switched over to 3D DBT? Read more at theimagingwire.com/2026/07/19/i....

Maureen P. Kohi, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC. www.newswise.com/articles/mau...

Digital rectal exams for prostate cancer staging could become a thing of the past thanks to MRI. A new study in JAMA Network Open found that MRI performed as well as digital exams in determining the extent of prostate cancer disease. Read more at bit.ly/4w73L9E. #radiology #MRI

AI has its skeptics and superfans when it comes to interpreting medical images, inspiring a wide range of approaches to checking its work, but a new RadioGraphics paper argues the right level of oversight lies somewhere in the middle. Read more at bit.ly/4w7FgcI. #radiology #RadSky

The FDA takes a science-based approach to letting people die of cancer. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/30/f...

Interventional radiology has proven benefits for patient care, enabling life-saving procedures to be performed less invasively than open surgery. But interventional radiology procedures are being concentrated among fewer radiologists, based on new findings at theimagingwire.com/2026/06/28/i...

AI-based calculations of breast cancer risk from screening mammograms can track cancer risk over time, giving clinicians a longitudinal tool for following patients. A new study adds to the growing body of knowledge on AI-based risk analysis. Read more at theimagingwire.com/2026/06/24/a....