UK National Cancer Imaging Translational Accelerator (NCITA) establishes infrastructure for validation and adoption of cancer imaging biomarkers as decision-making tools in clinical trials and NHS practice. Researchers and medical experts from nine world-leading medical imaging centres across the UK come together to form an integrated infrastructure for standardising and validating cancer imaging biomarkers for clinical […]
Imaging breast cancer using hyperpolarized carbon-13 MRI
Our recently published paper “Imaging breast cancer using hyperpolarized carbon-13 MRI”, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), has shown for the first time how a new MRI technique named hyperpolarised 13C-MRI can be applied to studying breast cancer. Patients were injected with a breakdown product of glucose, termed pyruvate: more […]
International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening
Abstract Screening mammography aims to identify breast cancer at earlier stages of the disease, when treatment can be more successful. Despite the existence of screening programmes worldwide, the interpretation of mammograms is affected by high rates of false positives and false negatives2. Here we present an artificial intelligence (AI) system that is capable of surpassing […]
New Department of Radiology Twitter account @Radiology_UOC
You can now find us on our new Twitter account @Radiology_UOC, where we will be publishing our latest news and upcoming events and any last minute changes that might occur. All news and events will still be available on our website as well.
