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Pierluigi Rinaldi

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Computer-aided diagnosis.

The evolution of logic thought in relation to the predominant recent advances in technology is analyzed. In fact, the computer was the prime mover of this major change. At present the use of sophisticated software has allowed to attain increasingly accurate levels of simulation of human reasoning. The computer has determined profound transformations in many sectors of work, study and research. Among these, it is extremely relevant how the computer has completely transformed medicine and the medical role, especially in the field of radiology. Expert systems are the most interesting and futuristic applications of artificial intelligence. These systems are able to reproduce on a computer the behavior of an expert human being. Some of the recent innovations introduced in the field of breast, thoracic and mainly neural pathology are illustrated.

Artificial Intelligence↗

Diagnostic imaging and therapy in a case of myasthenia gravis associated with thymic hyperplasia.

The diagnostic approach to a patient with myasthenia gravis to verify the presence of thymic hyperplasia/thymoma is presented. The study of the mediastinal region was necessary. Mediastinal MRI showed the presence of a mass. The differential diagnosis between a mediastinal and an extramediastinal lesion is possible with MRI for its high contrast resolution, good spatial resolution and multiplanarity that allow the detection, localization, evaluation of the extent and/or infiltration of adjacent tissues/organs based on the analysis of adipose cleavages and typing in the different pulse sequences of pathologic tissue with contrast enhancement. Definitive diagnosis of thymic hyperplasia was established. Therefore surgery should be essentially associated with the severity of the clinical presentation rather than with thymic hyperplasia.

Diagnostic Imaging↗