Recent findings suggest CT scans could be a major cancer risk, but some critics don’t think the estimates add up.

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body's internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

Are CT scans silently triggering a cancer epidemic — or are we being misled by speculative modeling and media-fueled fear? A new article warns of 103,000 additional cancers from diagnostic imaging, ...

For smokers and former smokers, getting annual CT scans of the chest to catch lung cancers early dramatically improves survival, new research shows. Many people may believe lung cancer to be swiftly ...

Computed tomography (CT) examinations (known more commonly as a “CT scan” or “CAT scan”) incorporate a series of x-ray images taken of areas inside the body and use a computer to create a ...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve the analysis of medical image data. For example, algorithms based on deep learning can determine the location and size of tumors. This is the ...