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Radiologist daring to look beyond pixels l Healthcare & Lifesciences Technology Innovation l Venture Addict

Genève, Suisse
Joined August 2013
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@AmineKorchiMD
Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
I am impressed by the thickening of climbers’ finger bones to adapt to heavy loads The human body is an amazing machine ! Source: Pr. Schweizer, hand surgeon… and climber - @derbalgrist #ESSR
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2 years
Chest X-rays are the most challenging exams in radiology !
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Dr Amine Korchi
8 months
Today I learnt a new thing in #Neuroradiology ! These last months I noticed in 3 MRI a small nodular extra-axial lesion in the foramen magnum (hyper FLAIR). 2 of them enhanced I reported both as non agressive lesions of unknown origin, possible XI schwannoma or epiderm cyst 1/4
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
Brain imaging from 1971 to date ... #radiology
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
Windowing is KEY to not miss pulmonary embolism on CT ! Optimal windowing is C: 100, W: 700 Optimal slice thickness < 1mm Optimal visualization: Coronal MIP #IDKD2022 Pr. A. Christe
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
8 Radiology Secrets Be quick as a wink for simple cases Be protocol agnostic Be tolerant with image quality Master your gaming mouse Keep your reports short & simple Keep Radiopaedia at your fingertips Take care of your hand tendons Don’t forget to breathe What’s yours ?
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
Radiologist’s Best Friends …
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Dr Amine Korchi
9 months
Knee #MRI in less than 3 minutes 🚀 Protocol on Siemens MAGNETOM 3T VidaFit by Bac Nguyen ! Ready for Walk-in MRI services ?
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1 year
Radiology, 128 years of blurriness
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2 years
Gratitude makes you happier As a radiologist, I am grateful that @Radiopaedia is freely accessible What are you most grateful for today?
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
Impressive #MRI nerve imaging... Pr Casselman, Bruges / Belgium 🇧🇪 #ECR2021 #radiology
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
I recently attended the Series A investors presentation of an #AI #radiology #startup I asked the founder if the team has #HealthIT competencies with knowledge of softwares such as RIS, PACS, EMR He replied that most of team members are experts in these programming languages
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
12 years in #radiology and never been at #RSNA Should I plan a trip to Chicago next year ? I’ll take Likes as encouragements 👍 😃 ✈️
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Dr Amine Korchi
11 months
That’s impressive Embolization reduces bone edema in knee #osteoarthritis ! « This pilot study suggested that GAE effectively reduces BML area and volume and improves pain and physical function in patients with knee OA accompanied by BML » @JVIRmedia
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
An intriguing intracranial mass incidentally found on a facial CT made for sleep apnea. #MRI performed. What’s your diagnosis ? GIF only - Answer in 24h 🧠 🕛 #Radiology #NeuroRad #Neurosurgery #Neurology
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
The #TerraVision & Google Earth of the human body ! 👉
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
1st experience on the other side of radiology today for a shoulder MRI You have to live it to believe how Noisy, Lengthy, Uncomfortable & Narrow it is MRI needs innovation for better patient experience & I’ll think twice before requesting additional sequences to my patients
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
A message to non-pediatric radiologists (including myself) : Children are not small adults ! #idkd2022
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
📺 Images Only 📺 Axial T2, T1 Gado & CT What’s your diagnosis ? Why ? Answer in 24h 🧠 🕛 #Radiology #NeuroRad #Neurosurgery #Neurology
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
Due to inflation, 1,5T MRI is now 3T
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
ENT #radiology is like real estate It’s all about location, location, location ! #idkd2022
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Dr Amine Korchi
8 months
Today a colleague told me she saw a similar case few months ago and it was described in the literature as « Benign Enhancing Foramen Magnum Lesion » ! These lesions are of unknown origin. 1 resected lesion consisted of arachnoid, dense fibrotic & collagen tissues 2/4
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
Here is a useful & visual #PIRADS calculator for Prostate #MRI reporting made by colleague Dr @OlivioDonati from Zurich 👉
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Dr Amine Korchi
5 years
Carpal tunnel syndrom treated by interventional #radiology under ultrasound guidance through a #pinhole ! #irads
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
Radiology is actually the perfect job if you have attention span issues because you open a study and it’s pretty and you… get interrupted by a call, then you … get interrupted by another call and then you … get another call but finally you… get interrupted by another call….
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Radiology is actually the perfect job if you have attention span issues because you open a study and it's pretty and you find the problem and you dictate it and then omg look another study it's pretty it looks normal you dictate it and omg look another one it's pretty
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Dr Amine Korchi
1 year
Prostate MRI (mpMRI) is the male mammogram, and they called it the Manogram ! (Trademarked)
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2 years
What a first time … Thank you #RSNA2021 !
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2 years
I see elephants in the radiology room 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 Quality of radiology analysis isn’t factored in most performance evaluation formulas High volume does not equal performance
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Dr Amine Korchi
8 months
Biotech : We successfully completed the phase 1 study of a drug intended to treat a deadly disease Market :
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Dr Amine Korchi
1 year
2 interesting things I read recently in #neuroradiology : - Choroid plexus volume is inversely correlated with brain atrophy in MS - Frontal internal hyperostosis could be a recovery mechanism for intracranial hypotension Have you heard of this folks ?
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
The way you report a degenerative spine MRI says more about your personality than your skills
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
Did you know that some #fractures in children are accompanied by a displacement of the #periosteum ... in the growth plate !!! Excellent presentation about trauma MSK imaging in children by Dr John Carrino from @HSpecialSurgery #idkd2022
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
Honored and Grateful for the 2019 #JVIR Distinguished Laboratory Investigation #Award ! Our work & publication has been selected among hundreds of articles published in 2019. Thanks to my international team 🇨🇦🇯🇵🇩🇰🇫🇷🇨🇭and to JVIR Editor-in-Chief @ZHaskal ! @JVIRmedia
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
Radiology is the best medical specialty if you want to become a social media influencer
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Dr Amine Korchi
6 months
RSNA should be renamed RSNAI
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Dr Amine Korchi
1 year
MRI ZTE (Zero TE) sequence is a CT-like image & improves the diagnosis in certain situations without adding a CT : - Lumbar pain of adolescents -> isthmic lysis - Joint in the context of a trauma -> fracture - Extensive unexplained edema -> calcification
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
@uber_trips @uber_trips : you are at the forefront of reality... it is a privileged place to share prevention messages (if those dare to listen...)
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
Did you know that up to 70% of head CT scans performed in an emergency setting are NORMAL ? An #AI algorithm able to classify normal exams would truly transform this clinical pathway, accelerate patient discharge and care, and reduce costs significantly.
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
The overhyped notion that #AI will replace #radiologists was based on idealized view of AI capabilities & lack of understanding of complexities in the #healthcare . Similarly, the idea that AI can be implemented seamlessly, as off-the-shelf algorithm, is also a myth. @RadKottler
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Dr Amine Korchi
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Meet the Stanford of Europe… @ETH_en Zürich! Some facts about ETH #startups spinouts : - 545 companies founded - 93% survival at 5 years - 10% have exited - 12 unicorns 🦄 - combined value is €15.7bn
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
I will never forget the day I told my grandmother that I was soon completing my training in radiology Baffled, she told me : “I thought you were a doctor”
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Dr Amine Korchi
9 months
I systematically MIP 3D T1 Gd of brain #MRI to speed up enhancement detection & it works crazy I thought of testing it in a study but some already did ! @GregZ_MD 😉 « use of MIP for brain metastases detection yields reduced reading time without sacrificing sensitivity » 1/2
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
Radiology is not efficient In most exams, only a small fraction of the pixels is informative and contributes to the diagnosis, but we spend most of our time analyzing the non-informative, mostly normal, pixels !
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
No one sees an issue with the fact that radiologists analyse images in DICOM format on high resolution screens while #DeepLearning are mainly trained on png or other non-DICOM formats and manipulated on non-medical screens ? #AI #radiology
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
The undoing, HBO series with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant A waist of ressources ... below average series...
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Dr Amine Korchi
10 months
#AI strikes again ! Mind blowing AI detects dynamic cardio-vascular biomarkers & valvular diseases on static chest radiographs 🩻 🫀 🇯🇵 With impressive performances, especially since no human #radiology expert can do this ! Read more here :
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
📺 Images Only 📺 Axial T2 & T1 Gado What’s your diagnosis ? Why ? Answer in 24h 🧠 🕛 #Radiology #NeuroRad #Neurosurgery #Neurology
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Dr Amine Korchi
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#AI replaces 1 radiologist for #breast #cancer mammography screening, improves cancer detection by 4% and reduces radiologist workload by HALF ! 🚀 Link to study :
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
What’s your diagnosis ? 🤓🔎🏁 ⏳ Answer in 48h ⏳ #Radiology #Neurorad #Neurosurgery #Neurology #SkullBase
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Dr Amine Korchi
1 year
The impact of AI on medicine will be as profound as the impact of computers and digital technologies on our everyday lives
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
I am a heavy user of @Radiopaedia since the beginning of my #Radiology journey. It's free, comprehensive, accurate & at one's fingertips. Today I donated a modest amount to support Radiopaedia growth & #openaccess education. Thank you @frankgaillard !
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
Have you ever seen a surgeon constantly interrupted during an intervention ? Apparently not all physicians’ jobs are made equal A radiologist
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
Ataxia, dysmetria and dysarthria 11 months after left pontine #stroke What’s your diagnosis (GIF only) & explanation (✍️)? Answer in 24h 🧠 🕛 #Radiology #NeuroRad #Neurosurgery #Neurology
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
MRI-based synthetic CT improved specificity for erosion & sensitivity for sclerosis/ankylosis detection compared with T1-MRI in sacroiliitis The generation of CT-like images from #MRI will enable faster diagnosis; no radiation exposure; one stop shop !
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
📺 Images Only 📺 Axial T2 What’s your diagnosis in GIFs ? Answer in 24h 🧠 🕛 #Radiology #NeuroRad #Neurosurgery #Neurology
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
Radiology carries the weight of the entire hospital on its shoulders Cuz it’s in the basement
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
@DrTravisScott @Vilavaite Why a CT has been performed ??
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
Radiographers in some #UK centers report independently chest, MSK and abdominal pain films with 98,8% accuracy. #radiology #ECR2021
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
📺 Images Only 📺 Coronal T2 & T1 Gado What’s your diagnosis ? Answer in 24h 🧠 🕛 #Radiology #NeuroRad #Neurosurgery #Neurology
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
🦠 #COVID19 came to Switzerland, stayed 2 weeks, found it over expensive and decided to go back to Italy ! #Coronavirus #laughingtofightparanoia
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Dr Amine Korchi
5 years
Well said @chrissyfarr : “They have a preference for the Mark Zuckerberg approach of "move fast and break things," while while failing to realize that the most important doctrine in medicine is "first do no harm."
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Dr Amine Korchi
8 months
This lesion is present in 3% of brain MRI and the differential includes : - venous varix, - ganglion/pseudoganglion of spinal accessory nerve, - ectopic glial nest, - heterotopia in the leptomeninges - schwannoma - meningioma 3/4
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
I finally came to the conclusion that the only person who understands the relationship between K-space and MRI final images is Mr Fourier #RSNA21
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Dr Amine Korchi
8 months
#PortableMRI proving its health economics #value in rural #Canada 🚀 In this experiment @Hyperfine #Swoop enabled an estimated «cost savings of $854,841 over 1 year. 5-year budget impact analysis showed $8 million dollars saved» 💰 $HYPR Read more 👉
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
I would like to introduce a new fellowship program in radiology The Private Practice Fellowship Program
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
There are 2 separate tasks in #radiology - Addressing the clinical question of the radiology order - Reporting the exam in totality beyond the clinical question The majority of the professional burden comes from the second task
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
If you are a Medical Doctor with interest in technology, innovation and fields outside of medicine Tell us what book(s) you are currently reading ? 👨🏻‍⚕️ 📚 🧑‍⚕️
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
Structured reporting in radiology is more than a mere format standardization It’s a structuration of your thoughts and analysis, and it leads to better, shorter, simpler and faster reporting
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
@WendeNGibbs Most relevant features: - restricted diffusion - spontaneously hyperdense on CT -> hyper cellular / high cyto-nucleic ratio - homogeneous diffuse enhancement - lobar/periventricular Fast growing lesion Would be interesting to see the signal on T2 !
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
Sunday morning craniectomy
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
Portable #MRI is perfectly suited for bedside ICU #brain imaging during #COVID19 pandemic without disrupting ICU workflows and continuity of care, and without risking an environmental contamination. My viewpoint on @radiology_rsna :
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
I hear a lot of people saying that if #AI surpassed humans at Chess and Go, so it will replace human doctors and radiologists ! Chess and Go are rules-driven games. Medicine and Radiology aren’t rule-based !
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Dr Amine Korchi
1 year
AI in Radiology will gradually evolve from “Nice-to-Have” to “Must-Have” and here’s why 👇
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
The cure for burn-out in #radiology Radiology request : Suspicion of PE Radiology report : No PE
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Dr Amine Korchi
5 years
the biggest problem is actually not to flag the intracranial bleeding when the CT is performed; the most pressing and serious problem is to flag the patients who have an intracranial bleeding while they are at home or waiting in the emergency room.
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
When I was in Academia, I used to attend morning teaching conferences to improve my knowledge & skills Today, I scroll through #Twitter during my morning commutes and continue to learn a lot about #radiology #medicine and #healthcare #innovation !
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
It's funny to see this on the investors presentation of a company valued at more than $ 1 billion 😀 I will not judge, typos happen !
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Dr Amine Korchi
1 year
Manufacturers of radiology contrast agents are at risk of disruption ! AI has the potential to drastically reduce or even eliminate the need for contrast media… These companies will have to reinvent themselves...
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
AI will become a fantastic educational tool for radiology residents in a not so distant future
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
Dr Michael Recht from @NYUImaging introduces the #TikTok #radiology report with cinematic ! #idkd2022
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
The biggest tragedy in HealthTech Medical doctors think they understand AI AI engineers think they understand medicine
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
@BrianFeroldi 50% loss on $100: $50 😄 5% loss on $10,000: $500 🤨
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
A software that automatically identify the rib level on any #CT plane would be hepful when reporting a rib lesion such as a fracture ! #AI #radiology
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
Besides the fact that RT-PCR has a significant false negative rate for #COVID19 , this study is interesting and well constructed ! "An #AI system can identify characteristics of COVID-19 on chest radiographs with performance comparable to six human readers."
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
Every radiologist is contractually obliged to have a radiograph of an improbably large household object lodged in the rectum - @PMccoubrie #Radiology Rule #31
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
AI in Radiology will gradually evolve from nice-to-have to must-have
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Dr Amine Korchi
3 years
I introduce … the human brain from organ to cell 🧠 Source:
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Dr Amine Korchi
1 year
AI in Spinal Imaging : Applications and Products ! Join us Thursday June 8th at 6pm ET (midnight CET 😬) to learn about #AI for #Spine #Radiology at the @virtualspine conference 👉 @atmghn @AliBaajMD @WendeNGibbs
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Dr Amine Korchi
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A gifted #AI engineer who transitioned into corporate consumer tech after spending many years as an entrepreneur at a #HealthTech startup (in #radiology AI…)
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
The future of MSK #radiology is actually now at @derbalgrist in Zurich Inspiring presentation by Dr Reto Sutter @SutterBalgrist at #idkd2022
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Dr Amine Korchi
9 months
@macromik Récemment une personne que je connais, fit, non fumeur, consommation occasionnelle d’OH, en bonne santé habituelle et s’exerçant régulièrement, Fait un score calcique en raison de facteurs de risque familiaux Score au plafond ! Épreuve effort et Scinti normales heureusement
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Dr Amine Korchi
4 years
💇🏽‍♂️We are now entering the #HaircutAtHome phase of the #COVID19 crisis and confinement !
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Dr Amine Korchi
2 years
Sinusitis used to be a clinical diagnosis with eventually an X-Ray Nowadays it’s a brain MRI diagnosis
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