Exploring the Top Trends in Radiology Science and Education | RSNA 2024

Take a closer look at the RSNA 2024 science and education sessions highlighting the most talked about topics in the field


Kate Hannemann
Hanneman

Medical imaging professionals and industry partners worldwide will gather in Chicago for RSNA 2024: Building Intelligent Connections. This year’s annual meeting theme emphasizes how building collaborative, intelligent connections between people and technology will raise the profile of radiology in the health care continuum and will redefine the ways we deliver care.

What can you expect at the world’s largest radiology forum this year? In addition to a captivating lineup of plenary speakers, RSNA 2024 will offer attendees the chance to experience an array of over 300 educational courses, more than 800 science paper presentations and nearly 3,400 education exhibits and science posters.

The Technical Exhibits halls will showcase 657 companies occupying nearly 400,000 sq. ft. of space who are ready to share their products and services with you. It will also be home to many industry presentations, events and learning opportunities, and will include 96 first-time exhibitors. Make time to immerse yourself and experience what these innovative companies have to share.

With so much to see and do at RSNA 2024, Kate Hanneman, MD, MPH, chair of the RSNA Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee (AMPPC) offers insights on the array of topics that will be covered to help attendees plan their meeting experience more effectively.

“Our committee consists of 20 subcommittees each with its own subchair and members,” Dr. Hanneman said. “They have worked diligently over the past year to build an exciting education program and identify an incredible amount of high-quality science to be presented at the meeting.”

 

Annual Meeting Learning Center

Highlighting Environmental Sustainability

Dr. Hanneman offered recommendations on several hot topics from the accepted abstracts.

“I’m interested in novel data on energy and greenhouse gas emission measurements in radiology, clinical AI applications across the radiology workflow, and outcome data from large clinical trials,” Dr. Hanneman said.

A strong advocate for environmental sustainability in radiology, Dr. Hanneman expressed particular interest in sessions covering this emerging issue.

“I’m thrilled there are two dedicated education sessions directly related to environmental sustainability in medical imaging, both sponsored by the RSNA Professionalism Committee,” she said. “There is also a science session focused on this topic.”

Consider these sessions:

  • Growing Green Radiology: Building Teams, Engaging Stakeholders, and Defining Measurements
  • Planetary Health and Radiology: Actionable Steps to Decrease Our Environmental Impact
  • Noninterpretive Skills (Beyond Imaging) Sustainability and Access to Care

“In addition to these sessions, one of four topics in RSNA’s late breaking call for cutting edge research abstracts includes environmental sustainability and I anticipate fantastic presentations in the Learning Center for a second consecutive year,” Dr. Hanneman said.

Other topics included in the call for cutting edge abstracts include multiomic and multicenter radiology AI, theranostics and low-field and mobile MRI.

Ai Theater

Bringing AI Applications Into Focus

AI coverage continues to expand across most subspecialties. “As a cardiac radiologist, I’m very interested in AI applications to optimize data acquisition and make data analysis more efficient,” Dr. Hanneman said. “There is an incredible amount of content related to generative AI in the RSNA 2024 program, including both education and scientific sessions. More broadly, there are stand out abstracts and sessions related to the impact of AI on radiology workflows and the potential to harness large language models to accelerate research and improve communication.”

  • A Custom GPT Can Effectively Answer Both Simple and Complex Questions Asked of Radiologists
  • Novel Large Language Model System for Custom-Tailored Radiology Research Using Retrieval=Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • The Impact of Large Language Model-Generated Radiology Report Summaries on Patient Comprehension: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Making Time for Non-Interpretive Sessions

Dr. Hanneman recommends that attendees explore the program and expand learning outside of imaging. “There are several other non-interpretive sessions, some sponsored by RSNA committees, that address timely and important topics for all attendees,” she said.

  • Navigating the Job Market (Sponsored by the RSNA Resident and Fellow Committee)
  • Role of Nonphysician Providers (NPP) in Radiology: Existential Threat or Unforeseen Opportunity? (Sponsored by the RSNA Professionalism Committee)
  • Artificial Intelligence Empowered Radiology: Unleashing the Power of Language Models for an Intelligent Future
  • Errors in Radiology: The Human Factor is the X-Factor (Sponsored by the RSNA Professionalism Committee and the RSNA Quality Improvement Committee)

“There is something for everyone at RSNA 2024, from education to research, networking and beyond,” Dr. Hanneman said. “Don’t miss this unmatched opportunity to earn CME while you learn and build your professional connections.”

Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee

Information for this preview was provided by Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee members

Kate Hanneman, MD, MPH, chair

Breast Imaging

Stamatia V. Destounis, MD, chair

Hiroyuki Abe, MD, PhD

Thomas H. Helbich, MD, MBA

Cherie M. Kuzmiak, DO

Vilert A. Loving, MMM, MD

Katja Pinker-Domenig, MD, PhD

Cardiac Imaging

Karen G. Ordovas, MD, MS, chair

Carole J. Dennie, FRCPC

Diana Litmanovich, MD

Michael F. Morris, MD

Ming-Yen Ng, BMBS, FRCR

Prabhakar Rajiah, MD, FRCR

Chest Imaging

Ioannis Vlahos, FRCR, chair

Saurabh Agarwal, MD

Kristopher W. Cummings, MD

Anastasia Oikonomou, MD, PhD

Claudio Silva, MD, MBA

Carol C. Wu, MD

Emergency Radiology Imaging

Manickam Kumaravel, MD, FRCR, chair

Krystal Archer-Arroyo, MD

Christina A. LeBedis, MD

Koenraad H. Nieboer, MD

Sameer B. Raniga, MD, FRCR

Claire K. Sandstrom, MD

Gastrointestinal Imaging

Courtney C. Moreno, MD, chair

Lauren M. Burke, MD

Aya Kamaya, MD

Avinash R. Kambadakone, FRCR

Jeong Min Lee, MD, PhD

Motoyo Yano, MD, PhD

Genitourinary Imaging

Antonio C. Westphalen, MD, PhD, chair

Tharakeswara K. Bathala, MD, MS

Silvia D. Chang, MD, FRCPC

Atul B. Shinagare, MD

Kerry L. Thomas, MD

Angela Tong, MD

Head & Neck Imaging

Hillary R. Kelly, MD, chair

Paul M. Bunch, MD

Luke N. Ledbetter, MD

Osamu Sakai, MD, PhD

Xin Wu, MD

David Zander, MD

Imaging Informatics

Christopher J. Roth, MD, chair

Imon Banerjee, PhD

Dania Daye, MD, PhD

Marta E. Heilbrun, MS

Felipe C. Kitamura, MD, PhD

Nina E. Kottler, MD, MS

Interventional Radiology

Rony Avritscher, MD, chair

Juan C. Camacho, MD

Florian J. Fintelmann, MD

Elika Kashef, FRCR

Gloria M. Salazar, MD

Lynn J. Savic, MD

Multisystem

Margarita V. Revzin, MD, MS, chair

Ichiro Ikuta, MD, MMedSc

Yuliya Lakhman, MD

Nariman Nezami, MD

Stacy E. Smith, MD

Sadhna Verma, MD

Musculoskeletal Imaging

Linda Probyn, MD, chair

Hillary W. Garner, MD

Andrew J. Grainger, MD

Soterios Gyftopoulos, MD, MBA

Emma L. Rowbotham, FRCR, MBBChir

Reto Sutter, MD

Neuroradiology

Achala S. Vagal, MD, chair

Hediyeh Baradaran, MD, MS

Peter G. Kranz, MD

Nancy Pham, MD

Luca Saba, MD

Max Wintermark, MD

Noninterpretive/Practice Management

Vinay Prabhu, MD, MS, chair

Matthew D. Bucknor, MD

Melissa A. Davis, MD, MBA

Jessica G. Fried, MD

Jeffrey G. Jarvik, MD, MPH

Saurabh Jha, MRCS

Kathryn P. Lowry, MD

Jay R. Parikh, MD, FRCPC

Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging

Don C. Yoo, MD, chair

Esma A. Akin, MD

Pedram Heidari, MD

Phillip H. Kuo, MD, PhD

Helen R. Nadel, MD, FRCPC

Aileen O’Shea, MBBCh

OB/Gynecology Imaging

Liina Poder, MD, chair

Susan M. Ascher, MD, BS

Nicole M. Hindman, MD

Priyanka Jha, MBBS

Edward R. Oliver, MD, PhD

Elizabeth A. Sadowski, MD

Pediatric Imaging

Andrea S. Doria, PhD, chair

Teresa Chapman, MA

Emilio Inarejos Clemente, MD

Amy R. Mehollin-Ray, MD

Marcelo S. Takahashi, MD, PhD

Teresa Victoria, MD, PhD

Physics

Lifeng Yu, PhD, chair

James M. Kofler Jr, PhD

Ke Li, PhD

Zheng Feng Lu, PhD

Erin B. Macdonald, PhD

Ioannis Sechopoulos, PhD

Radiation Oncology

Anna Shapiro, MD, chair

Megan J. Kalambo, MD, BS

Simon S. Lo, MBChB

Suresh K. Mukherji, MD, MBA

Tarita O. Thomas, MD, PhD

Meng X. Welliver, MD, PhD

Vascular Imaging

Nicholas S. Burris, MD, chair

Bradley D. Allen, MD, MS

Jordi Broncano, MD

Brian B. Ghoshhajra, MD, MBA

Kacie Kuykendall, MD

Daniel Vargas, MD