A chest X-ray does not directly show pulmonary embolism. However, it may help a doctor rule out health problems that cause similar symptoms, such as pneumonia and some heart conditions.

Medically reviewed by Jurairat J. Molina, MD A chest X-ray cannot diagnose asthma but can provide valuable information during a severe attack or when someone is hospitalized with asthma complications.

Your doctor has several ways to try to diagnose your heart disease. One of those is a chest X-ray. You don’t need to do anything to get ready for it. But you do need to let the technician know ...

Chest X-ray findings can help a doctor find nodules, masses, or lesions that indicate colonies of TB bacteria and damage to tissues from infectious bacteria. These usually show up as brighter ...

A chest X-ray can show where in your lungs the tumor is growing. It can also help determine the type of NSCLC. Common types of NSCLC include: adenocarcinomas, which are on the outside of the lungs; ...

A chest X-ray or CT scan often detects lung nodules—small growths in the lungs—incidentally. While most lung nodules are benign, here’s to finding out if they are cancerous.

Doctors may find it challenging to differentiate TB from pneumonia on a chest X-ray. Both conditions can present similar features, such as lung infiltrates and effusions.

X-rays can also show changes in other organs, such as the lungs. You usually have x-rays in the imaging department of the hospital, taken by a radiographer. Why you have them. A chest x-ray can show ...

Researchers have developed a deep learning-based AI algorithm that automatically analyzes chest X-rays to rapidly detect COVID-19 infection with more than 98% accuracy, distinguishing between ...

A deep-learning model using information from a single chest X-ray reliably predicted atherosclerotic CVD risk and statin eligibility when compared with a common risk calculator, researchers ...

Early research suggests a promising use of artificial intelligence to predict the 10-year risk of death from a heart attack or stroke from a single chest X-ray.

India has a powerful AI-assisted chest X-ray tech to screen presumptive TB cases. qXR, developed by Qure.ai, can detect TB in less than a min, incl. subclinical cases. 43% of TB cases would have ...