Anton Becker, MD, PhD

#FOAMrad Prostate MRI tip for #RadRes ❗Beware of mucinous prostate cancer Though rare, these often unsuspicious-looking lesions can harbor high Gleason disease The entire tumor or large portions will have high T2 signal, up to cystic appearance, and lack diffusion restriction

💫 Meet the Tae Hyung Kim, MD, MS. He is diagnostic radiologist with specialized training in oncologic imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,New York. 🏅 Winner of the Reviewer of the Year 2024 – Reviewing Excellence Award with Special Distinction

@benwhitemd Would only be somewhat true if he was talking about image acceleration or dose reduction

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, hallucinating about the current impact of AI in radiology: "Radiology, for example, has largely been converted to AI-driven radiology." Is he wrong by ignorance, or is it a cynical PR angle? Rest of the quote is in the article: benwhite.com/radiology/hall…

Ever feel like this when it comes to RCC in hereditary syndromes? My colleagues have got you covered with our latest article, spearheaded by the amazing Dr. Charlotte Charbel and @swoo_rad: rdcu.be/eRsjT (👈free access)

🤠The Wild West of PSMA PET Reporting: check out our new paper on real-life inconsistencies, heterogeneity, underutilization of scoring systems/ interpretation frameworks, & SO many incidental findings! pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ra… HT: @stefanofanti4 @ProfKHerrmann @MatthiasEiber @becker_rad @swoo_rad #prostatecancer

✨Highlights from @NYUImaging’s Michael Macari Radiology Resident Research Symposium!✨ Outstanding oral & poster presentations by @NYURadRes, plus inspiring lectures from Dr. Sodickson & Dr. Reeder. Congrats to all mentors & mentees! @CMercadoMD @DanielSodickson @ScottReederMD

The average radiology trainee will finish residency in their early 30s and hopefully enjoy a 30-plus year career if they like it (and otherwise make enough money fast enough to retire early if desired). 30 years is a long time. benwhite.com/medicine/30-ye…

@ehlJAMA @_ClimateCraze Small island surrounded by a lot of ocean, hardly representative of most places where people live.

The Hockey-stick graphs result from the synthesis of data from various sources with various corrections. If one looks at a single source of unfiltered data such as actual high-quality temperature measurements from the Mauna Loa observatory, no substantial time-related average temperature change is observed. This graph represent daily temperature measurements obtained between 1/1/1968 to 1/21/2025. The redline is the mean - with allowance for nonlinearity by spline-fitting.

Hockey-stick temperature graphs are as fake as wooden nickles. Even inside the imaginary world of the climate alarmists' hockey-stick graphs, they fail to see that doubling CO2 will only produce 1% additional warming -- and there's not enough oil to get there.

@hochhegger @northwoods1980 Thanks great point! The issue I have with your original post is the "always". The nodule is not quite typical for a LN in the beginning. Perhaps I should read your post as: "Don't dismiss something just because has one or two benign features"

@becker_rad @northwoods1980 Dear Anton, not all perifissural nodules should be triangular. Lungrads also accept oval and lentiform….jacr.org/article/S1546-… This is also reviewed here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC79…

Take care with Perifissural nodules and always perform Lung cancer screening annually! We always could be wrong …..

@hochhegger @northwoods1980 IMHO this does not have features consistent with intrapulmonary lymph node to start with. No triangular shape, and the fissural distortion is atypical as well.

@northwoods1980 It is a nodule consistent with intrapulmonary lymphnode. The final diagnosis was NSCLC.

@sethmhardy @WillyRontgen @AnnalsofSurgery @drsxr @drjohnm @northwoods1980

@WillyRontgen @AnnalsofSurgery @drsxr @drjohnm @becker_rad @northwoods1980 This kind of research is so tiresome. We see the same stuff out of the breast community. Raging cancers with poor grades are going to rage and kill people.

Patients under IPMN surveillance were more likely to have early-stage concomitant cancers—and better outcomes—than those diagnosed outside surveillance. journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

@ghoshhajra @WillyRontgen This. Also should take into account age, gender+/- body height.

@WillyRontgen “Hint”: ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

@panscan27 @northwoods1980 @WillyRontgen Either it's this huge thing that somehow all insurers are missing --or it has some obscure legal reason we're not familiar with

@northwoods1980 @WillyRontgen Ya I’ve never understood how pre auths don’t stop all this stuff. You have patients with actual malignancies where there’s a fight to get a pet or restaging but we can always do an US for grandmas 5 mm thyroid nodule

Can someone please tell NPs and PAs to stop scouring the findings sections of radiology reports looking for useless crap to work up? If someone buries a 1mm pulm nodule it’s not important.

@northwoods1980 @WillyRontgen @dougbeall @francisdeng @sethmhardy *Ideally* the findings and impression sections are short enough so that the recipient can just always read both by default

Now, I'm not saying that One should put impressions into the findings or not bring the important findings and recommendations into the impression but, I think it's fine to make individuals ordering these exams, take the time to read through the nonemergent findings section. And in my opinion, I feel better with some sort of trigger letting them know that. Now, how that should exactly be noted in the impression section, I'm not certain.

Attention radiologists: when you see edema associated with a facet joint in the cervical spine, especially when it has an effusion, it’s almost always painful. Don’t miss it & waste time in the report on routine degenerative changes without a focus on what is likely to be painful

@Urology_MD @EvanKovac @dr_coops @uroegg @NjmsUrology @NJMSDeptSurgery @RutgersCancer At least add some vowels please. ProNeLoMaP or something..

@EvanKovac @dr_coops @uroegg @NjmsUrology @NJMSDeptSurgery @RutgersCancer I’m in favor; but also…”Hey chatGPT, Think of a better name for Gleason 6 than PrNLMP”

For those who believe Gleason 6 should be re-named “not cancer”, please see our latest editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Let’s make PrNLMP (Prostatic Neoplasm of Low Malignant Potential) happen! Thoughts @uroegg @dr_coops ?? @NjmsUrology @NJMSDeptSurgery @RutgersCancer

Beautiful paper by @adamcifu: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… Same could be said for radiologists: "a physician with a low level of confidence in his or her level of diagnostic accuracy will [overrecommend], whereas an overconfident physician will [underevaluate imaging findings]"

#MEDSTUDENTMONDAYS: picking up colon cancers can be tough; this turned out to be a sigmoid adenocarcinoma #yaleradedu #yaleradiology #MedStudentMondays #FOAMrad #FOAMed #radres @RadDiscord #MedTwitter

Can AI help catch errors in radiology reports before they go out? 🧐This study by @pengyifan, @csun_nlp, and colleagues shows how fine-tuned generative language models significantly improved error detection. Promising step toward smarter, safer reporting! pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ra…

@Hopkins_Rad @vsyedavalli Congrats @vsyedavalli !! Well deserved I'm sure 🎉

Thrilled to share that Dr. Vivek Yedavalli(@vsyedavalli ), has been elected Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) by the Stroke Council! This honor recognizes his excellence and lasting contributions in scholarship, education, and service in stroke research.

@WillyRontgen Website looks very impressive. What are you currently using?

Do any rads out there have experience with New Lantern as a cloud PACS solution? newlantern.ai