Errors in radiology reports can result in inappropriate or harmful decisions. The authors investigated whether large language models can reduce this error rate (Feng Pan et al.) #EuropeanRadiologyExperimental buff.ly/6QiVNGp

📰 2026 Yves Menu Review Fellowship recipient! 📰 Haoyin Cao is a Radiology Resident at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, specializing in abdominal and breast imaging. She completed a research traineeship at Johns Hopkins University, USA, deepening her expertise in radiological research.

T1ρ Mapping for Non-Invasive Liver Fibrosis Assessment 🧪 A new European Radiology article reports the clinical validation of T1ρ MRI mapping for assessing hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease, supporting its role as a promising quantitative, non-invasive imaging biomarker.

Tracking Coronary Calcium After Heart Transplantation 🫀

📰 2026 Yves Menu Review Fellowship recipient! 📰 Maurizio Balbi is an academic radiologist at the University of Turin, Italy.

What embolic agent to use for colonic diverticular bleeding? A battle between coil, gelfoam sponge particles and NBCA glue 🩸 ⚔️

This study explored the gradient changes in structural similarity based on the cortical structure of patients with lifelong premature ejaculation and further analyzed the characteristics of the associations between these changes and clinical phenotypes

📰 2026 Albert L. Baert Editorial Fellowship recipient! 📰 Diana Veiga-Canuto is a Paediatric Radiologist at Hospital La Fe (Valencia, Spain).

Kangaroo mode during neonatal brain MRI 🦘 - keeping the smallest patients warm, safe, and still

Is gadolinium-based contrast really needed to assess pleural inflammation in cystic fibrosis? 🤔 🫁

📰 2026 Albert L. Baert Editorial Fellowship recipient! 📰 Timo Auer, a native of Berlin and working at Charité – University Hospital, is a senior radiology physician specializing in interventional radiology and abdominal imaging.

This commentary by Raab et al. tackles a fundamental question in clinical AI adoption: does AI benefit all clinicians equally, or does its impact depend on baseline expertise?

After total laryngectomy, the optimal end-goal of vocal rehabilitation is acheiving "hands-free" speech through the use of an automatic speaking valve. buff.ly/UmCITMa

📰 2026 Albert L. Baert Editorial Fellowship recipient! 📰

📰 Join us through January and February as we introduce the class of 2026 - the Albert L. Baert Editorial Fellows and the Yves Menu Review Fellows! Congratulations to all recipients! 📰

Finding a needle in a haystack 🪡 - can AI help us flag the unexpected but urgent radiology findings?

Axillary lymph node involvement remains a critical factor in determining breast cancer management strategies, influencing both surgical decisions and systemic treatments.

Can AI scale from the clinic to mass screening without causing more harm than good?

Diagnosing inflammatory myopathies can often feel like solving a complex puzzle with missing pieces, until you look at the "whole" picture.

Scanning a preterm neonate is always a high-stakes balance between getting the diagnostic image and keeping the baby safe; but what if the technology finally caught up to the challenge?

This article explores whether routinely acquired contrast-enhanced mammography images contain enough information for deep learning prediction of hormone receptor status. (Alessandro Carriero et al.) #EuropeanRadiologyExperimental buff.ly/0B0KEIp

Is cardiac radiomics ready to predict patient outcomes, or is the methodology lagging behind the hype?

Is AI in radiology a financial game-changer or just an expensive add-on waiting for proof?

Cerebral blood flow in a tri-ethnic population: insights from pCASL perfusion MRI 🧠

The authors compared ultrahigh-resolution photon-counting detector CT and spectral post-processed images for coronary stent visualisation in a dynamic, anthropomorphic, and circulatory phantom. (Muhammad Taha Hagar et al.) #EuropeanRadiologyExperimental buff.ly/jnAHojW

Multi-radiotracer PET/CT for carotid plaque vulnerability 🚨

Machine learning for CT-based stroke timing 🧠 This study compares different machine learning models for classifying ischemic #stroke onset within or beyond the 4.5-hour therapeutic window using CT data.

Quantitative CT in alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) 🫁 This study demonstrates that AI-assisted #quantitative CT enables comprehensive assessment of #airway abnormalities beyond #emphysema in #AATD.

🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄 We hope you all enjoyed #Radvent 2025! Thank you for all your interactions through the month, and everyone at #EuropeanRadiology wishes you an amazing Christmas!

In our final #Radvent post of the year, we would like to focus on the value of collaboration, transparency and large dataset in research, especially in building reproducible AI models.

☃️ Radvent Day 23! ☃️ Ionising radiation is not risk-free ☢️ and this is a good time to remind ourselves to take steps to reduce unncessary radiation exposure to patients.

🎅 Radvent Day 22! 🎅 Today’s ESR Essentials feature unwraps a skill every radiologist will need more and more in the new year: high-quality segmentation.

🎅 Radvent Day 21! 🎅 As the new year approaches, it’s a great time to reflect on how we can sharpen our aim 🎯 in obtaining vascular access (pun not intended!).

🦌 Day 20 of our #Radvent journey🎄 Today we highlight “ESR Essentials: Imaging of Facial Pain”—a valuable set of practice recommendations from the @European Society of Head and Neck Radiology. 🔔

von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) disease is a rare hereditary cancer syndrome caused by germline pathogenic variants in the VHL gene.

❄️ Radvent Day 19! ❄️ Today’s ESR Essentials review unwraps a topic at the core of oncologic imaging: how to stage and assess lymphoma accurately.

Magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of trigeminal neuralgia 👀

Can we better predict the risk of lateral lymph node metastasis (LLNM) in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC)?

🩺 Incidental Findings on Screening Prostate MRI: How Common Are They?

Can we do better in assessing the hemodynamic significance of stenotic lesions in the vertebrobasilar circulation?

Superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO)-enhanced MRI can visualise draining lymph nodes and potentially metastases.

🦌 Day 17 of our #Radvent series ✨ As we continue highlighting impactful imaging resources this month, today’s focus is on “ESR Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide of Segmentation for Radiologists”—a timely and highly practical contribution from the @European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics.

Following the editorial in the previous post, this commentary by Dr. Wilhelm Kuker explores the potential of dual energy CT (DECT) in evaluating the composition of carotid artery plaque to guide management of patients with carotid artery stenosis.

This editorial highlights the growing value of perfusion imaging in the imaging workup of patients with suspected ischemic symptoms.

🎁 Radvent Day 16! 🎁 As we roll through the festive season, today’s special feature unwraps a forward-looking vision for how AI could transform breast cancer prevention.

Can #AI help reduce contrast dose in MR imaging of the cerebellopontine angle cistern?

⛄ Radvent Day 15! ⛄ Hypersensitivity reaction to contrast media: Part 2. Adding to Part 1 from yesterday, these guidelines deliver a highly usable roadmap for safe, confident contrast administration in daily practice 🩻✨

Can a “pea pod” and a thin bright stripe on MRI really stop us from overstaging early rectal cancer? 🫘✨

🎅 Radvent Day 14! 🎅 Today’s feature unwraps an update every radiologist should know: the brand-new ESUR guidelines on contrast media hypersensitivity.

🦌 Day 13 of our #Radvent journey! 🔔 Continuing our festive countdown of daily imaging pearls, today we turn to a topic that demonstrates the true impact of early detection. 🎄