Member updates
RadLex Released in FHIR Format
RadLex, RSNA’s comprehensive set of radiology terms for use in radiology reporting, decision support, data mining, data registries, education and research, has been released in a new format designed to make it easier to incorporate systems and electronic patient records.
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) was developed by Health Level 7 International (HL7) to simplify data exchange between health care applications while maintaining data integrity. This version allows RadLex to be a terminology binding for other FHIR resources, such as observations, using the standard FHIR format enabling coded values.
Learn more about RadLex and the foundation it provides for vital data resources used in radiology.
Open Data Repository Gets New Name
The RSNA Medical Imaging Resource for AI (MIRA) is a collection of datasets available for download and use through the Amazon Web Services Open Data Sponsorship program. RSNA has worked with research sites worldwide that have contributed imaging data for various AI challenge competitions. Expert radiologists, many recruited by their subspecialty societies, have provided annotations of the imaging data from these challenges.
To use this high-quality data for your research, access MIRA now.
Submissions Open for Lumbar MR Spondylosis AI Challenge
The RSNA Lumbar MR Spondylosis AI Challenge opens this month during the American Society of Neuoradiology annual meeting. Competitors are invited to build models to detect and classify degenerative spine conditions using lumbar spine MRI images.
Launched by RSNA in association with the ASNR and the American Society of Spine Radiology (ASSR), this new challenge includes images from more than 10 sites on six continents. The highest performing models in the challenge will be made available under open licenses to encourage additional research.
Learn more and submit your models.
Submit Your Application for Grant Funding
RSNA R&E Foundation grant applications open in October. This is a prime opportunity to secure funding that will help you succeed in your work and make an impact in the field.
The Foundation’s mission is to invest in the future of radiology by developing investigators and supporting lifelong innovative research and education. This year, the Board of Trustees approved $5 million for 81 individual grant recipients—RSNA members, just like you.
And for many, that funding is just the beginning. Grant recipients report that for every $1 awarded by the Foundation, they receive on average $60 more as a principal investigator or co-investigator from other sources such as the NIH. Foundation grants assist RSNA members in launching new projects, securing dedicated research time, investing in new equipment and resources, making new connections and establishing their reputations among colleagues.
Foundation grants are available for education and research projects of varied sizes and scope, with opportunities for all career stages.
Get ready to submit your grant applications and take advantage of a resource that has helped advance the work of RSNA members for four decades. Learn more now.
SNMMI Announces Honorees and New Leadership
During the society’s 2024 annual meeting, The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) awarded its former president Richard Wahl, MD, with the Minoshima-Pappas Transformational Leadership Award.
Dr. Wahl is a professor of radiation oncology and is the former head of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. A leader in the introduction and use of positron emission tomography (PET) to diagnose an array of cancers and other diseases, Dr. Wahl is also recognized for being at the forefront of efforts to combine quantitative data from PET scans with CT and MRI to form “fusion” images.
Dr. Wahl has contributed to several RSNA committees and played a key role in the Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance, which was recently replaced by the Quantitative Imaging Committee (QUIC). He presented the New Horizons lecture at RSNA 1999 and earned the RSNA Honored Educator Award in 2013.
Cathy Sue Cutler, PhD, was elected SNMMI president. Dr. Cutler is director of the medical isotope research and production program at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY. She has served as SNMMI secretary/treasurer and was president of the SNMMI Center for Molecular Imaging Innovation and Translation. Other officers elected include president-elect Jean-Luc C. Urbain, PhD, and vice president-elect Jason S. Lewis, PhD.