Asif Machhada, Lucy Osborne, Sophie Birch, Simon Rickaby, Erin Dowd, Khattab Alkhedairy, Emad Ibrahim, Anita Rhodes
{"title":"Prediagnostic chest X-rays in lung cancer: original reporting, expert consensus and artificial intelligence","authors":"Asif Machhada, Lucy Osborne, Sophie Birch, Simon Rickaby, Erin Dowd, Khattab Alkhedairy, Emad Ibrahim, Anita Rhodes","doi":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100483","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100483","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101248,"journal":{"name":"The Royal College of Radiologists Open","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100483"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sean-Tee Lim, Michael Fitzsimons, Conor Keady, Kevin Cronin, Eoin Kavanagh
{"title":"Extensive desmoid-type fibromatosis encasing the sciatic nerve: A case report","authors":"Sean-Tee Lim, Michael Fitzsimons, Conor Keady, Kevin Cronin, Eoin Kavanagh","doi":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We describe the case of a 29-year-old man who presented with painful swelling in the right popliteal fossa. MRI demonstrated an extensive infiltrative soft tissue lesion encasing the right sciatic nerve and extending along the common peroneal and lateral sural cutaneous nerves. Subsequent ultrasound-guided biopsy and surgical excision confirmed desmoid-type fibromatosis. This case highlights the characteristic multimodality imaging features of desmoid-type fibromatosis involving the sciatic nerve, an uncommon site of disease, and illustrates the importance of MRI in defining the longitudinal extent of tumour and its relationship to adjacent neurovascular structures for surgical planning. Few reports describe extensive sciatic nerve encasement by desmoid-type fibromatosis with comprehensive MRI, CT, operative and pathological correlation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101248,"journal":{"name":"The Royal College of Radiologists Open","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100620"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148737220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sunyi Zheng, Shui Liu, Jing Wang, Xiaonan Cui, Zhaoxiang Ye
{"title":"A comparative evaluation of a domain-specific large language model and GPT-4o for radiology report summarisation","authors":"Sunyi Zheng, Shui Liu, Jing Wang, Xiaonan Cui, Zhaoxiang Ye","doi":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100498","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100498","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101248,"journal":{"name":"The Royal College of Radiologists Open","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100498"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mayur Munshi, Gareth Price, Andrew Reilly, Gordon Cowell
{"title":"Integrating imaging and clinical data for enhanced lung cancer risk prediction: a weighted average ensemble approach","authors":"Mayur Munshi, Gareth Price, Andrew Reilly, Gordon Cowell","doi":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100511","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100511","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101248,"journal":{"name":"The Royal College of Radiologists Open","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100511"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Training minds for machine-age imaging: medical students’ needs, ethics and expectations for safe AI integration in radiology","authors":"Roshni Das, Ebinesh Arulnathan, Sivakumar Manickam","doi":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100515","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100515","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101248,"journal":{"name":"The Royal College of Radiologists Open","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100515"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Babajide Imran Wale-Akinyemi, Elizabeth AyoOluwa Idowu, Adenike T. Adeniji-Sofoluwe
{"title":"Artificial intelligence in breast imaging: a systematic review of the current situation in Africa","authors":"Babajide Imran Wale-Akinyemi, Elizabeth AyoOluwa Idowu, Adenike T. Adeniji-Sofoluwe","doi":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100523","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101248,"journal":{"name":"The Royal College of Radiologists Open","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100523"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tia Rijlaarsdam, Juling Ong, Luke Smith, Alexander Rickart, Simone Foti, Lara Van De Lande, David Dunaway, Eppo Wolvius, Silvia Schievano
{"title":"The identification of Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome through swap disentangled variational autoencoder","authors":"Tia Rijlaarsdam, Juling Ong, Luke Smith, Alexander Rickart, Simone Foti, Lara Van De Lande, David Dunaway, Eppo Wolvius, Silvia Schievano","doi":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100480","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100480","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101248,"journal":{"name":"The Royal College of Radiologists Open","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100480"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the educational value of an AI tutor in FRCR 2B short case preparation using longitudinal performance analytics","authors":"Girija Agarwal, Naila Hamrioui, Paymon Zomorodian","doi":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100492","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100492","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101248,"journal":{"name":"The Royal College of Radiologists Open","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100492"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AIRT: an AI-driven radiation oncology tutor: developing and validating a novel large language-model educational assistant","authors":"Aravindh Sivanandan Anand, Gautham Aravind, Gaadha Aravind","doi":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100493","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100493","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101248,"journal":{"name":"The Royal College of Radiologists Open","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James Battye, Ping Lu, Philip Conaghan, Samuel Relton
{"title":"Benchmarking CNNs and transformers for knee cartilage MRI segmentation without pre-training","authors":"James Battye, Ping Lu, Philip Conaghan, Samuel Relton","doi":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100494","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101248,"journal":{"name":"The Royal College of Radiologists Open","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148859134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}