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Digital Healthcare Innovation in Medical Imaging: The Past, the Present and the Future

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "TeleHealth and Digital Healthcare".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2025 | Viewed by 679

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Dr. Barbara Brogna

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Department of Interventional and Emergency Radiology at National Health Institute, San Giuseppe Moscati Hospital, Contrada Amoretta, 83100 Avellino, Italy
Interests: healthcare; emergency radiology; chest and abdominal radiology; COVID-19; artificial intelligence
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Many advancements have been made in medical imaging in recent years, including AI-aided X-ray interpretation, dual-energy imaging, tomosynthesis, computer-aided diagnosis, and digital mobile radiography. The COVID-19 pandemic has also highlighted the important role of using teleradiology. On the other hand, through the development and progression of radiomics and artificial intelligence, imaging can provide non-invasive biomarkers for cancer diagnostics, prognosis, and treatment response monitoring. Therefore, technological innovation is essential for improving patient care in all medical fields.

We are pleased to invite you to submit high-quality manuscripts on the following topics:

  • How medical imaging innovations can improve clinical practice in diagnosis and medical management, including forensic medicine;
  • How the use of teleradiology could improve clinical and radiological practice, including its use during the COVID-19 pandemic;
  • How the use of radiomics and artificial intelligence in imaging can impact (positively or negatively) clinical practice, including the perspectives of the author/authors;
  • The use of imaging as a biomarker with prognostic and predictive indicators.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Oncology imaging, forensic medicine, emergency medicine, artificial intelligence, and teleradiology.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Barbara Brogna
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • imaging innovation
  • teleradiology
  • radiomics
  • artificial intelligence
  • forensic medicine

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The Many Faces of Intestinal Tumors in Adults, Including the Primary Role of CT Imaging in Emergencies and the Important Role of Cross-Sectional Imaging: A Pictorial Review
by Barbara Brogna, Francesca Maccioni, Dolores Sgambato, Fabiana Capuano, Lorenzo Iovine, Salvatore Guarino, Lorenzo Di Libero, Alfonso Amendola, Lorenzo Faggioni and Dania Cioni
Healthcare 2025, 13(9), 1071; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13091071 - 6 May 2025
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Background/Objectives: Small bowel tumors (SBTs) encompass a diverse range of tumor types, with benign tumors being the most prevalent. However, the incidence of malignant SBTs is increasing, particularly small bowel adenocarcinoma; this poses a diagnostic challenge for clinicians and radiologists due to the [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Small bowel tumors (SBTs) encompass a diverse range of tumor types, with benign tumors being the most prevalent. However, the incidence of malignant SBTs is increasing, particularly small bowel adenocarcinoma; this poses a diagnostic challenge for clinicians and radiologists due to the varied and nonspecific clinical and radiological presentations associated with SBTs. In fact, SBTs can present differently in emergencies, often mimicking inflammatory diseases or manifesting as complications such as intussusception, small bowel obstruction (SBO), intestinal ischemia, perforation, gastrointestinal bleeding, or metastatic disease. These tumors can remain asymptomatic for extended periods. Methods: We present a pictorial review on the role of imaging in evaluating SBTs, focusing on the emergency setting where diagnosis can be incidental. We also include some representative cases that may be useful for radiologists and residents in clinical practice. Results: Despite these challenges, contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) is usually the best modality to use in emergencies for evaluating SBTs, and in some cases, a diagnosis can be made incidentally. However, when possible, multimodal imaging through cross-sectional imaging remains crucial for the non-invasive diagnosis of SBTs in stable patients, as endoscopic procedures may also be impractical. A complementary CT study with distension using negative oral contrast media, such as water, polyethylene glycol, or mannitol solutions, can improve the characterization of SBTs and rule out multiple SBT locations, particularly in small bowel neuroendocrine tumor (NET) and gastrointestinal tumor (GIST) localization. Positive water-soluble iodine-based oral contrast, such as Gastrografin (GGF), can be used to evaluate and monitor the intestinal lumen during the nonsurgical management of small bowel obstruction (SBO) or in suspected cases of small bowel perforations or the presence of fistulas. Magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) can aid in improving the characterization of SBTs through a multiplanar and multisequence study. Positron emission tomography combined with CT is generally an essential modality in evaluating metastatic disease and staging and assessing tumor prognosis, but it has limitations for indolent lymphoma and small NETs. Conclusions: Therefore, the integration of multiple imaging modalities can improve patient management and provide a preoperative risk assessment with prognostic and predictive indicators. In the future, radiomics could potentially serve as a “virtual biopsy” for SBTs, allowing for better diagnosis and more personalized management in precision medicine. Full article
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