Quests

Automated IVC Filter Detection

There is so much talk in medicine, and radiology in particular, about the coming AI boom that will perform everyone’s...

DICOM Processing and Segmentation in Python

DICOM is a pain in the neck.  It also happens to be very helpful.  As clinical radiologists, we expect post-processing,...

RandomForest

RandomForest

Machine learning tools continue to improve in accuracy and ease of use. R has multiple packages implementing many of the...

Creating a RSNA Word Cloud

The RSNA conference will take place in Chicago in 1 month. If you’ve already started looking at the meeting program,...

NLP Basics – Preparing Radiology Report for Tokenization

We all want order in life, but working with radiology reports computationally sometimes is like giving an Easter bunny to...

Watson Plugin for R

IBM’s Watson has been all over the news in the past few years as powerful machine learning continues to advance...

How Predictive Analytics Helps Assess Your Missing Data

For years, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided claims Physician/Supplier Procedure Summary Master File for any researcher ...

Digging into Inpatient Radiology Patterns from Scratch

There is an ever increasing push in radiology towards value-based imaging. In the US, many inpatient stays are reimbursed as...

Exploration of ED Radiology Studies

Medicare Data by State – Lumbar MRI and Mammography