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Tomorrow’s Radiology Today: RSNA 2018
This year’s RSNA theme is Tomorrow’s Radiology Today, so attendees can expect to hear all about the latest and greatest that radiology has to offer. No one will be able to see all of the interesting sessions, but we noticed a few that might be worth checking out.
Each of the plenary sessions has a specific theme, and the lectures are always informative. For Sunday’s opening session, RSNA president Vijay M. Rao, MD, and David C. Levin, MD, will be kicking things off with the President’s Address, “How Emerging Technology Will Empower Tomorrow’s Radiologists to Provide Better Patient Care,” followed by the Annual Oration in Diagnostic Radiology, “Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, and Informatics: The Future Is Here.” There are also science sessions on emergency radiology and informatics, respectively, on Sunday.
A Monday morning controversy session looks at an abbreviated breast MRI protocol, and there’s a session on “3D Printing in Urologic Oncology,” hosted by Nicole Wake, PhD. Monday’s plenary lecture, delivered by Rao and Donald M. Berwick, MD, is called “Can Clinicians Lead Radical Redesign?”
Tuesday features a controversy session on prostate imaging as well as a session dedicated to perceptual and attentional errors. “Interoperability: Imaging and Beyond — IHE, Standards, and the RSNA Image Share,” presented by David S. Mendelson, MD, and Didi Davis, promises to provide an interesting update on current interoperability trends. Tuesday morning’s RSNA/American Association of Physicists in Medicine Symposium will look at the state of the art in CT, and Tuesday afternoon’s New Horizons Lecture by Flemming Forsberg, PhD, and Rao will be “Oscillating Microbubbles — Driving Innovation in Ultrasound.”
Wednesday morning is highlighted by a hot topic session on fast musculoskeletal MR imaging, the BI-RADS Interactive Challenge, a session on advanced cybersecurity, and another on 3D printing titled, “What We Have Learned and Where We Are Going.” The Annual Oration in Radiation Oncology, “Radiotherapy to Convert the Tumor Into an In Situ Vaccine,” will be delivered on Wednesday afternoon by Silvia C. Formenti, MD, and Edward Y. Kim, MD. There are also several controversy sessions in the late afternoon comparing CT with MRI for different conditions and exploring when to use gadolinium for MR imaging.
In addition to case-based and interactive competitions on Thursday, there’s a hot topic session on FDG, sessions on 3D printing and AI, and a return of the popular “Fast 5” session on Thursday afternoon, hosted by Tessa S. Cook, MD, PhD, a member of Radiology Today’s Editorial Advisory Board. Following that session, Rao and Fei-Fei Li, PhD, will deliver Thursday’s plenary lecture, “Toward Ambient Intelligence in AI-Assisted Health Care Spaces.”
For those who stick around until Friday, fear not, there will still be plenty to see. Sessions on radiology’s value to multidisciplinary teams and interacting effectively with referrers will be followed by the International Symposium on Musculoskeletal Radiology and the Friday Imaging Symposium, “Screening With Imaging in 2018: Who Benefits?” hosted by Hebert Alberto Vargas, MD, and Dow-Mu Koh, MD, FRCR.
Finally, make sure to check out some of the poster sessions, and stop by the exhibit hall to see what’s new in medical imaging technology. Enjoy the show.
— A Radiology Today staff report
