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Tip 3: Do Not Miss the Big Ones

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My next tip, don't miss the big one.

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So I gave you an example of someone who

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identified the lung cancer

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and the mediastinal lymphadenopathy,

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but missed the healed rib fracture.

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Great. You know, if you have to make mistakes,

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make mistakes on old things

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that have no clinical importance,

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but you have to maintain your vigilance

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and be even more highly vigilant on things

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that are the big ones, the rule out ones.

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So for me, you know, strokes, aneurysms on, on, uh,

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CT scans of the head and CTAs.

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Those are the biggies.

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But you know, you're gonna focus more carefully in the

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screening of cancers for blood vessel detection,

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detect dissections and emboli.

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Um, you know, when we do RAD p

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or when we do peer review missing

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minor mucosal thickening in the trachea

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or minor mucosal thickening in the bladder

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or minor mucosal thickening in the sinuses,

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I can handle those type of mistakes.

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I feel horrible if I've missed a cancer, missed an aneurysm,

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missed a bleed, for example.

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So that's okay.

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You know, be humble about missing cases and,

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but when there are minor problems,

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you can sort of dismiss them.

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I think that this is where

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artificial intelligence detection software really will

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help radiologists.

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It's already very useful for breast imaging

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and mamma mammographic screening.

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Um, I see it as sort of a solution for some

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of the misses that we have, particularly at the end

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of shift when we're exhausted.

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So, um, I would say to the extent

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that your practice can afford it

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and has made the judgment that with the risk benefit

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or time lost, time gained benefit

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that you employ artificial intelligence for these big

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deals of cancers, aneurysms, strokes, bleeds, et cetera.

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In the breast imaging world,

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obviously double reads are often useful

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for not missing a breast cancer.

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Um, hopefully AI will serve as

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that sort of double read for increasing

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applications in radiology.

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So make sure that these diagnoses are paramount in your

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head.

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Faculty

David M Yousem, MD, MBA

Professor of Radiology, Vice Chairman and Associate Dean

Johns Hopkins University

Michael A. Bruno, MD, FACR, MS

Professor of Radiology & Medicine, Vice Chair for Quality and Chief of Emergency Radiology

Penn State University

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