In the words of Martin Luther King “Only in the darkness can you see the stars”. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to loom like a specter over our country, and the world. Despite weeks of lockdown the numbers of new infections continues to rise or remain static. The only difference seems to be that the geography […]
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As recently as July 30, 2020, Dr Anthony Fauci went on record saying with typical understatement, that the conflicting guidance on mask-wearing (in response to the US president’s tweets on the subject) was ‘not helping the situation’. Even at this advanced stage of the coronavirus pandemic, the fact that the importance of one of the
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Addressing to what Dr Sona said in her article on Challenges in teleradiology in India, Dr Arjun Kalyanpur, MD, CEO and Chief Radiologist, Teleradiology Solutions, Bangalore shares his insights on quality in teleradiology reporting Teleradiology has become firmly established as a powerful clinical paradigm within healthcare delivery that permits radiology reporting to be performed rapidly and efficiently
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Earlier this month, we had the privilege of hosting the first edition of AIR, a Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Radiology jointly conducted by our Technology group TeleradTech and our Research Division Image Core Lab. Keynote lectures were delivered on AI in Healthcare by Dr Anurag Agrawal Director of CSIR- Institute of Genomics and Integrative
In preparing for my TEDX talk, I have been absorbing quite a bit of material on what makes a great talk. Recently I had the privilege of attending one in Radiology that ranks well up there in terms of Radiology lectures I have attended. Delivered by the legendary professor Kakarla Subbarao, who is known in
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The purpose of going to a conference is to speak, learn, and to meet some interesting people. If the venue is pleasant, that is a decided plus. In the case of the Horasis conference that I recently attended for the first time, all three goals were met in spades. The conference was held in the
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Four panel discussions in two days is quite a bit of talking. By the end of the third of these, my co-panelist, (Dr Nobhojit Roy of the NHSRC) sympathetically diagnosed me as having “Chronic Panelitis”! Three of the panels were at the conference on the Future of Radiology conducted by REF India Foundation and Express
Three speaking engagements in the AI space earlier in the year have brought into focus various aspects of AI in Radiology and Imaging. The first, the ISMRM workshop in Quantitative Imaging in New Delhi reinforced the fact that Quantitative Imaging forms the basis for all AI. What cannot be quantified or objectivized cannot form the
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Another RSNA has drawn to a close – I believe this is the 12th time we have had a booth exhibit there … we started in 2004 and barring one year, have exhibited each year, and this year was as exciting and rejuvenating as ever! I recall how in 2004 when we first exhibited, Teleradiology
I recently attended an interesting lecture hosted by the New India Foundation on the subject of How to Fix Primary Education in India, by an eminent speaker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof Esther Duflo, in which she elegantly described, using randomized controlled trial data generated by her organization’s field research, what is erring
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