Maxime Barat , Camille Ollivier , Linda Taibi , Véronique Nitsche , Philippe Sogni , Philippe Soyer , Lucia Parlati , Anthony Dohan , Hendy Abdoul , Marie-Pierre Revel
{"title":"Standard of care versus standard of care plus Ericksonian hypnosis for percutaneous liver biopsy: Results of a randomized control trial","authors":"Maxime Barat , Camille Ollivier , Linda Taibi , Véronique Nitsche , Philippe Sogni , Philippe Soyer , Lucia Parlati , Anthony Dohan , Hendy Abdoul , Marie-Pierre Revel","doi":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.09.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.09.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>The purpose of this study was to compare levels of pain and anxiety during percutaneous ultrasound-guided liver biopsy between patients receiving standard of care and those receiving standard of care plus the support of Ericksonian hypnosis.</div></div><div><h3>Materials and methods</h3><div>This prospective, single-center, single-blind, randomized controlled superiority trial included 70 participants. Participants were randomly assigned to either the standard of care group and received oral anxiolytic medications with reassuring conversational support, or to the experimental group, and received Ericksonian hypnosis (<em>i.e., conversational hypnosis</em>) in addition to standard of care. The primary outcome was the level of pain experienced during the biopsy, measured on a 10-point visual analog scale (0 indicating no pain to 10 indicating excruciating pain). Secondary outcomes included anxiety level during the biopsy, pain level within one hour of the biopsy measured using the same 10-point visual analog scale, amount of analgesic medication taken in the 24 h following the biopsy, and patient willingness to undergo another ultrasound-guided percutaneous liver biopsy in the future.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Thirty-six participants were included in the standard of care group, and 34 were included in the experimental group. The mean score of pain experienced during the biopsy was lower in the experimental group (2.4 ± 1.9 [standard deviation (SD)]) compared to the standard of care group (4.4 ± 2.6 [SD]) (<em>P</em> = 0.001). The level of anxiety experienced during the biopsy was lower in the hypnosis group (2.1 ± 1.8 [SD]) compared to the standard of care group (4.8 ± 2.4 [SD]) (<em>P</em> < 0.001). No significant differences in other secondary outcomes were observed between the two groups.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The addition of Ericksonian hypnosis to standard of care reduces the pain experienced by patients during percutaneous ultrasound-guided percutaneous liver biopsy by comparison with standard of care alone.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48656,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging","volume":"106 3","pages":"Pages 93-97"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laetitia Saccenti , Bilel Ben Jedida , Lise Minssen , Refaat Nouri , Lina El Bejjani , Haifa Remili , An Voquang , Vania Tacher , Hicham Kobeiter , Alain Luciani , Jean Francois Deux , Thu Ha Dao
{"title":"Evaluation of a deep learning-based software to automatically detect and quantify breast arterial calcifications on digital mammogram","authors":"Laetitia Saccenti , Bilel Ben Jedida , Lise Minssen , Refaat Nouri , Lina El Bejjani , Haifa Remili , An Voquang , Vania Tacher , Hicham Kobeiter , Alain Luciani , Jean Francois Deux , Thu Ha Dao","doi":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>The purpose of this study was to evaluate an artificial intelligence (AI) software that automatically detects and quantifies breast arterial calcifications (BAC).</div></div><div><h3>Materials and methods</h3><div>Women who underwent both mammography and thoracic computed tomography (CT) from 2009 to 2018 were retrospectively included in this single-center study. Deep learning-based software was used to automatically detect and quantify BAC with a BAC AI score ranging from 0 to 10-points. Results were compared using Spearman correlation test with a previously described BAC manual score based on radiologists’ visual quantification of BAC on the mammogram. Coronary artery calcification (CAC) score was manually scored using a 12-point scale on CT. The diagnostic performance of the marked BAC AI score (defined as BAC AI score ≥ 5) for the detection of marked CAC (CAC score ≥ 4) was analyzed in terms of sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A total of 502 women with a median age of 62 years (age range: 42–96 years) were included. The BAC AI score showed a very strong correlation with the BAC manual score (<em>r</em> = 0.83). Marked BAC AI score had 32.7 % sensitivity (37/113; 95 % confidence interval [CI]: 24.2–42.2), 96.1 % specificity (374/389; 95 % CI: 93.7–97.8), 71.2 % positive predictive value (37/52; 95 % CI: 56.9–82.9), 83.1 % negative predictive value (374/450; 95 % CI: 79.3–86.5), and 81.9 % accuracy (411/502; 95 % CI: 78.2–85.1) for the diagnosis of marked CAC. The AUC of the marked BAC AI score for the diagnosis of marked CAC was 0.64 (95 % CI: 0.60–0.69).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The automated BAC AI score shows a very strong correlation with manual BAC scoring in this external validation cohort. The automated BAC AI score may be a useful tool to promote the integration of BAC into mammography reports and to improve awareness of a woman's cardiovascular risk status.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48656,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging","volume":"106 3","pages":"Pages 98-104"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142570245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohamed S. Muneer , Rowa A. Mohamed , Tarik F. Massoud
{"title":"CT features of tension neck subcutaneous emphysema (tension pneumocollum)","authors":"Mohamed S. Muneer , Rowa A. Mohamed , Tarik F. Massoud","doi":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.10.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.10.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48656,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging","volume":"106 3","pages":"Pages 107-108"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142576623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breast arterial calcification can be integrated into mammographic reports with minimal effort from radiologists","authors":"Masako Kataoka","doi":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.11.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48656,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging","volume":"106 3","pages":"Pages 81-82"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142819708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shaping the future of MRI in upper abdominal imaging: The promise of deep learning reconstruction","authors":"Anita Paisant , Sébastien Mulé","doi":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.12.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48656,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging","volume":"106 3","pages":"Pages 83-84"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jan M. Brendel , Johann Jacoby , Reza Dehdab , Judith Herrmann , Stephan Ursprung , Sebastian Werner , Sebastian Gassenmaier , Dominik Nickel , Konstantin Nikolaou , Saif Afat , Haidara Almansour
{"title":"Deep learning reconstruction for accelerated high-resolution upper abdominal MRI improves lesion detection without time penalty","authors":"Jan M. Brendel , Johann Jacoby , Reza Dehdab , Judith Herrmann , Stephan Ursprung , Sebastian Werner , Sebastian Gassenmaier , Dominik Nickel , Konstantin Nikolaou , Saif Afat , Haidara Almansour","doi":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.09.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.09.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>The purpose of this study was to compare a conventional T1-weighted volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination (VIBE) sequence with a DL-reconstructed accelerated high-resolution VIBE sequence (HR-VIBE<sub>DL</sub>) in terms of image quality, lesion conspicuity, and lesion detection.</div></div><div><h3>Materials and methods</h3><div>Consecutive patients referred for upper abdominal MRI between December 2023 and March 2024 at a single tertiary center were prospectively enrolled. Participants underwent 1.5 T upper abdominal MRI with acquisition of spectrally fat-saturated unenhanced and gadobutrol-enhanced conventional VIBE (fourfold acceleration, 3.0 mm slice thickness, 72 axial slices) and HR-VIBE<sub>DL</sub> (sixfold acceleration, 2.0 mm, 108 slices). Both sequences had an identical acquisition time of 16 s. Image analysis was performed by three readers in a blinded and randomized fashion, with respect to image quality, lesion conspicuity, and lesion detection in liver, pancreas, spleen, lymph nodes and adrenal glands. Image quality parameters were compared using repeated measures analysis of variance. Lesion detection rates were compared using Fisher exact test. Inter-reader agreement was assessed using Fleiss κ test.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Among 744 consecutive patients, 50 participants were evaluated. There were 30 men and 20 women, with a mean age of 60 ± 15 (standard deviation [SD]) years (age range: 18–88 years). HR-VIBE<sub>DL</sub> images demonstrated superior signal-to-noise ration and edge sharpness by comparison with conventional VIBE images (<em>P</em> < 0.001 for both), with substantial interreader agreement (κ: 0.70–0.90). Lesion conspicuity was higher with for HR-VIBE<sub>DL</sub> images (3.50 ± 0.83 [SD]) by comparison with conventional VIBE images (3.21 ± 0.98 [SD]) (<em>P</em> = 0.005). There were 171 upper abdominal lesions, yielding a total of 513 for all three readers. HR-VIBE<sub>DL</sub> images yielded higher lesion detection rate (97.5 %; 500/513) compared to conventional VIBE images (93.2 %; 478/513) (<em>P</em> = 0.002).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>HR-VIBE<sub>DL</sub> images of the upper abdomen result in superior image quality, better lesion conspicuity, and improved lesion detection without time penalty by comparsion with conventional VIBE images.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48656,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging","volume":"106 3","pages":"Pages 85-92"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142682851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marc Sapoval , Olivier Pellerin , Axel Boyer , Carole Déan , Tom Boeken
{"title":"Does genicular artery embolization compromise future knee surgery in patients with knee osteoarthritis? A strategic call to the community","authors":"Marc Sapoval , Olivier Pellerin , Axel Boyer , Carole Déan , Tom Boeken","doi":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.12.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.diii.2024.12.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48656,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging","volume":"106 3","pages":"Pages 105-106"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personalized cardiac MRI: Emphasizing the need to consider age and sex in myocardial mapping and the importance of customized reference ranges.","authors":"Gilles Soulat, Paul Habert","doi":"10.1016/j.diii.2025.02.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diii.2025.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48656,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in the follow-up of patients with Fabry cardiomyopathy.","authors":"Jules Senlis, Fabien Labombarda, Julien Burel, Arthur Flouriot, Sébastien Normant, Matthieu Demeyere, Olivier Lairez, Soraya El Ghannudi, Alexis Jacquier, Olivier Ghekiere, Farah Cadour, Jean-Nicolas Dacher","doi":"10.1016/j.diii.2025.02.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diii.2025.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the follow-up of patients with Fabry disease. Our hypothesis was that LV functional parameters and native myocardial T1 and T2 values could be used to monitor treatment efficacy.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>This prospective, observational, multicenter study included patients with Fabry disease who underwent two cardiac MRI examinations performed at 1.5 T 24 months apart at five University Hospitals between March 2017 and December 2022. Changes in cardiac MRI parameters were compared between two groups of patients according to whether or not they were receiving specific treatment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-six patients with Fabry disease were enrolled. There were 17 women and 9 men, with a mean age of 45.3 ± 17.4 (standard deviation [SD]) years. Both treated and untreated patients showed an increase in native T1 values over time, but the T1 increase was higher in treated patients (global T1, +39.4 ± 28.9 [SD] ms) than in untreated ones (global T1, +14.5 ± 30.3 [SD] ms) (P = 0.04). T2 values decreased in treated patients (global T2, -2.11 [SD] ms ± 3.36 but increased in untreated ones (global T2, +0.57 ± 1.63 [SD] ms) (P = 0.02). No significant changes in extracellular cardiac volume, left ventricular functional parameters, late gadolinium enhancement or left atrial volume were observed. However, LV mass index increased in untreated patients and decreased in treated patients. Intra- and interobserver reproducibility of T1 measurements showed mean biases of -0.18 ms (limit of agreement:11.61, 11.24) and -0.64 ms (limit of agreement:23.82; 22.54), respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Variations in native myocardial T1 values at cardiac MRI are significantly greater in patients with Fabry disease receiving treatment than in untreated patients, suggesting an effect of treatment on lipid storage. In addition, changes in T2 values suggest an anti-inflammatory effect of the treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":48656,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143484315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fatma Boubaker, Michael Eliezer, Guillaume Poillon, Helene Wurtz, Ulysse Puel, Alain Blum, Pierre Gillet, Pedro Augusto Gondim Teixeira, Cécile Parietti-Winkler, Romain Gillet
{"title":"Ultra-high-resolution CT of the temporal bone: Technical aspects, current applications and future directions.","authors":"Fatma Boubaker, Michael Eliezer, Guillaume Poillon, Helene Wurtz, Ulysse Puel, Alain Blum, Pierre Gillet, Pedro Augusto Gondim Teixeira, Cécile Parietti-Winkler, Romain Gillet","doi":"10.1016/j.diii.2025.02.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diii.2025.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Temporal bone imaging has historically suffered from spatial resolution issues because the spatial resolution of conventional high-resolution computed tomography (CT) is 0.5 mm, while the smallest structure of the middle ear, the stapes, has very thin components, as thin as 0.19 mm, and small structures, such as small channels containing nerves and arteries, have historically been beyond its spatial resolution. Photon-counting and ultra-high resolution CT allow for improved spatial resolution and reduced radiation dose compared to conventional high-resolution CT. This article provides a technical approach to understanding the technical aspects of these new techniques and an updated description of the middle and inner ear, as well as a practical approach to understanding the normal and pathologic anatomy of the temporal bone in the light of ultra-high resolution imaging techniques.</p>","PeriodicalId":48656,"journal":{"name":"Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143472973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}