The American cartoonist Art Spiegelman has referred to comics as “a gateway to literacy,” but they can also, of course, stimulate laughter. […]
Archive for 2016
The Picture Problem
Twelve years ago Malcolm Gladwell published an article in The New Yorker entitled “The picture problem: mammography, air power, and the limits of looking.” […]
Does Sunlight Protect Us from Cancer?
Two researchers at the University of Sydney, Jacqueline Marshall and Scott Byrne, have just published a paper in Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences […]
Animations Bring Ideas to Life
A few years ago my wife and I were visiting our daughter and family in the USA and we took […]
Beyond Imaging
The theme for this year’s meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), which finished today in Chicago, was […]
The False-Negative Conundrum
As we have highlighted previously, a false-negative finding – where a tumour is missed during breast cancer screening – can have devastating […]
Shear-Wave Elastography and Deep Learning
It is well known that malignant breast tumours are mechanically stiffer than benign tumours and the surrounding healthy tissues. While […]
AuntMinnie Award for Best Paper
Towards the end of each year the online magazine AuntMinnie.com runs a campaign to identify the best and brightest in medical imaging. […]
Growing Cancer Burden for Women
The American Cancer Society (ACS) presented a paper at a congress in Paris this week, warning of an explosion in cancer deaths […]
The Microbiome in Breast Cancer
The human microbiome – an ecological community of trillions of bacteria that inhabit our bodies and outnumber our own cells by three […]