Clinical Advances and Challenges in Abdominal Imaging and Intervention

Dear Colleagues,

Abdominal imaging has become a cornerstone of modern medicine, playing a decisive role in the diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up of a broad spectrum of gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, genitourinary, and vascular diseases. The rapid evolution of imaging technologies, including multi-detector computed tomography (CT), multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and advanced ultrasound techniques, provides clinicians across many disciplines with powerful tools to detect and characterize abdominal pathologies with remarkable precision. The growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and radiomics into clinical workflows is further reshaping diagnostic pathways, offering new opportunities to enhance accuracy, streamline shared decision-making, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

Alongside these advances, important challenges persist across the entire clinical pathway. They include managing the increasing volume and complexity of imaging data, optimizing protocols to balance diagnostic quality with radiation dose and resource use, and addressing the diagnostic dilemmas of acute abdominal conditions, where rapid and accurate decisions are critical. At the same time, image-guided abdominal intervention is expanding rapidly, delivering minimally invasive therapeutic options that increasingly depend on close collaboration among the specialists involved in patient care.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to abdominal imaging and image-guided interventions, with a deliberately multidisciplinary perspective. We welcome contributions of interest to the broad community of physicians and surgeons engaged in the management of abdominal diseases.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Recent advancements in CT and MRI techniques for abdominal and pelvic imaging;
• The role of ultrasound and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in abdominal emergencies;
• Artificial intelligence and radiomics applications in abdominal medicine;
• Image-guided interventional procedures in the management of abdominal disorders;
• Multidisciplinary approaches to acute abdominal pain, trauma, and emergency care;
• Optimization of imaging protocols and radiation dose reduction strategies;
• Advances in oncologic imaging, tumor staging, and treatment response assessment;
• Imaging-based collaboration across surgery, gastroenterology, urology, and oncology.

Dr. Marco Di Serafino
Dr. Francesca Iacobellis
Guest Editors

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