themantalope

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by themantalope 29d ago
I’m a physician in the US. In my experience main cost drivers are administration (documentation is part of it but the way billing works is you basically do the job, document what you did, then submit to the payer. This process can take 6+ m
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by themantalope 2mo ago
Not to mention shoulder MRs can be hard to read. Findings can be subtle and have to be interpreted in context with the exam, symptoms etc.
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by themantalope 2mo ago
lol yea I wasn’t going to put in a full dictation on the internet but clearly a lot of misinterpretations from the AI
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by themantalope 2mo ago
That’s a good question. My understanding is that medical images are part of a patients record (so they must be available for the patient or other docs at the request of the patient) but whoever has collected the images does have some form o
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by themantalope 2mo ago
Somewhat. During residency I developed models for detecting liver tumors in MRI imaging. Like you said, highly specialized and a lot of manual work developing the dataset. There are now open source open weight “foundation models” coming out
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by themantalope 2mo ago
I mostly do interventional radiology, which is more similar to a surgical specialty than a diagnostic radiology practice. We do a lot of procedures , see patients in our clinic, have a service that rounds on and follows up on patients etc.
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by themantalope 3mo ago
Radiologist. I don’t read MR shoulder exams in my day to day practice, but from the few pictures shown , I can’t conclusively disagree with the original report. These models are generally terrible at reading medical images. The amount of pu
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by themantalope 3mo ago
Not sure. Image reconstruction/generation is a computationally intensive process, and in recent years DL based methods for improve image reconstruction have advanced fields like musculoskeletal MRI imaging. The physics behind this idea
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by themantalope 3mo ago
MRI uses EM radiation in the radiowave frequency band. This is using sound.
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by themantalope 3mo ago
If you could obtain volumetric/3D ultrasound data that was not operator dependent, that would be great. US is a good diagnostic tool, but it can be challenging to read because obtaining good images is very operator dependent. You need
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by themantalope 3mo ago
Other than the shapes of the tissues in the images, there is no anatomic detail. Wouldn't be useful for diagnostics. It's substantially worse than conventional ultrasound.
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by themantalope 3mo ago
radiologist here - example images don't look great
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by themantalope 5mo ago
I’ve switched to open code and openrouter. I only did the $20/month subscription since 9/2025 It was great for about 5 months, amazing in fact. I under utilized it. For the past month, it’s basically unusable, both Claude code and
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by themantalope 9mo ago
There is a lot in this comment I agree with, however I think may universities have backed themselves into a corner with the degree of tuition inflation that has taken place over the last 20+ years. I graduated from a SUNY school in 2012. At
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by themantalope 9mo ago
Interesting but how would this prevent against “off-chain” collusion? A fraudulent seller captures brokers on the buy and sell side? Seller backs out of the deal unless they know who the brokers are? I think this kind of behavior in princip
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by themantalope 9mo ago
你可以把中文版发到网上吧
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by themantalope 11mo ago
A few points based on comments I’m seeing about the article. This method of ultrasound treatment is called histotripsy. The underlying mechanism it uses to treat tumors is by focused ultrasound beams that mechanically disrupt cell membranes
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by themantalope 1y ago
Haha, I’m also an IR with AI research experience. My view is much more in line with yours and this interpretation. Another point - I think many people (including other clinicians) have a sense that radiology is a practice of clear cut findi
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by themantalope 1y ago
I am an interventional radiologist. I’ve done procedures to embolize the prostate (helps shrink it), and gonadal vein embolization (for varices). The gonadal veins are in a different vascular territory from the prostate. The prostates vascu
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Ask HN: How do you handle long PDFs?
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by themantalope 2y ago
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by themantalope 3y ago
Now in my fifth year of residency after finishing medical school, the effects of sleep debt are astounding. It’s difficult to describe how much better I feel and energetic I am when I have at least 3-4 days off work and get several consecut
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by themantalope 3y ago
I made an app for text and reverse image search. I’m a radiologist. https://raddex.ai
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by themantalope 3y ago
That’s the basic idea. You’ll still get some heating of tissue as ultrasound waves pass through other tissue but won’t be destructive. Radiation therapies use similar principles but non-target tissue is still exposed to ionizing radiation w
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by themantalope 3y ago
Saw some talks on this at the CIO meeting last month. Data so far is good but technique is limited to solid organs than can be targeted on ultrasound. Regardless it’s an interesting treatment.
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by themantalope 3y ago
I made a search engine for radiologists (I’m also a radiologist). Have some articles indexed. Working on indexing videos and streamlining the backend processing. Front end is next js. Any feedback appreciated! https://raddex.ai
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by themantalope 3y ago
This is cool. I’m a radiologist. Do you have PACS?
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by themantalope 3y ago
Weird way to say that people should talk to their doctors about how they want to die before the time is upon them. Major problem in the US. See it every day at my job.
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by themantalope 3y ago
Working as a surgery resident and now in IR, I can tell you it’s much better to be a little overprescritvie in addressing post-op pain than to get behind and underdose. Also opiates in a short term setting are good meds. Pain control is goo
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by themantalope 3y ago
I’ve used this repo. It’s ok. For very simple layouts, it probably works fine. For more complex layouts it fails miserably. I’ve also had cases where it didn’t detect half the text on the page (machine generated text).

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