Category: Press Release

Developments in medical imaging and the rapidly evolving doctor-patient relationship encourage the European Society of Radiology Patient Advisory Group (ESR-PAG), bringing together imaging professionals and patients, to continuously strive for an even higher level of patient engagement within medical imaging across Europe. To meet growing expectations on the side of patients and radiologists, the ESR-PAG and the ESR are delighted to release the new strategy ‘ESR-PAG: a Strategy for 2019 and Beyond’ that, building on the fruitful collaboration...

Next year’s European Congress of Radiology (ECR 2020) will include a lecture by Prof. Nenad Sestan, the leading researcher of a Yale study, which successfully partially revived pig brains six hours after death. Prof. Sestan joins a line-up of many top scientists from across the world who will be speaking at Europe’s largest radiological meeting.

Prof. Sestan is a Professor of Neuroscience, of Comparative Medicine, of Genetics and of Psychiatry at Yale University. He is a world-leading researcher of the...

• Collaboration on events for digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI)
• Webinars and webcasts for information and discussion with radiologists
• Blog posts from Siemens Healthineers offer insights into development

With their first course under the heading “Intelligence. Innovation. Imaging – The perfect vision of AI,” held in Barcelona on April 5-6, Siemens Healthineers and the European Society of Radiology launched a collaborative arrangement aimed at promoting discussion with the radiology community. This concept had already proven itself in the Digital Experience Hall...

With more than 5,800 registrations from 140 countries for live streaming and 230 attendees onsite, the European Society of Radiology’s (ESR) event, ‘Intelligence. Innovation. Imaging – The perfect vision of AI’, highlighted the importance that artificial intelligence (AI) is playing for radiologists around the world. The event, which took place in Barcelona on April 5-6, featured more than 20 lectures and over 28 speakers from a variety of professional backgrounds and turned out to be a stunning success for the...

Registration is now open to participate from home in one of the most elite Artificial Intelligence (AI) radiology events of 2019. Professionals worldwide will be able to live stream the entire two-day AI event free of charge from any device. The course, titled ‘Intelligence. Innovation. Imaging - The Perfect Vision of AI’ will take place in Barcelona on April 5-6, and is certain to be one of the European Society of Radiology’s (ESR) & European School of Radiology’s...

A fully packed Best of ECR programme has now been finalised for the 48^th Brazilian Congress of Radiology (CBR 2019) which takes place in Fortaleza on October 10-12, 2019. The initiative, which will debut for the first time at CBR, will feature a diverse range of speakers bringing their lectures from the European Congress of Radiology to a new setting. It is the result of efforts by the European Society of Radiology (ESR) to bring the most innovative and...

March 2019 - The European Society of Radiology (ESR) is pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of Esperanto, the ESR Guide to Clinical Audit in Radiology and Clinical Audit Tool, following its launch at ECR 2019. Esperanto is a free English language document developed by the ESR Audit and Standards Subcommittee of the ESR Quality, Safety and Standards Committee. It is designed to support European radiology departments in establishing and/or developing an internal programme of clinical...

Written by Philip Ward, AuntMinnie Europe

March 12, 2019 -- One of the hidden gems at ECR 2019 came on the final day of the congress in Vienna. At the European Society of Radiology (ESR) General Assembly, Dr. Paul Parizel, PhD, delivered a seven-step mantra of an ESR president of the past, and it drew considerable praise.

Parizel was ESR president in 2017. He is chairman of the radiology department at Antwerp University Hospital (UZA) and a full professor in the...

March 8, 2019 – As the European Society of Radiology (ESR) celebrates International Women’s Day, it is time to reflect on one of the biggest success stories of ECR 2019, Women in Focus. This pioneer programme led by Prof. Hedvig Hricak, celebrated the role of women working in medicine and truly embodied the ECR’s theme this year, encouraging everyone to explore ‘The Bigger Picture’.

Women in Focus was one of the most popular highlights of this year’s congress. Each and...

Vienna, March 6, 2019 (ECR) - The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) closed on March 3 with an impressive growth in attendance, a remarkable achievement as the trend for big meetings seems to be heading in the opposite direction lately. The organisers, the European Society of Radiology (ESR), are proud to announce a total onsite participation of 23,239, including a record number of 14,602 professional delegates, which represents a 5% increase compared to ECR 2018, and a total of...