About this episode

The episode discusses how CT-based screening is transforming preventive care through various health assessments.

Host Dr. Celina Nahyun Jo sits down with Dr. Perry Pickhardt to explore how opportunistic CT screening is transforming routine imaging into a powerful tool for cardiometabolic risk assessment, bone health evaluation, liver disease detection, and body composition analysis. Together, they discuss the role of explainable AI, the future of CT-based biologic age, and why value-added imaging has the potential to reshape preventive care. CT-based Opportunistic Screening for Adding Clinical Value:How I Do It. Pickhardt et al. Radiology 2026; 319(1):e252106.

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Celina Nahyun Jo

Guest: Dr. Perry Pickhardt

Topics covered

• CT screening
• preventive care
• cardiometabolic risk assessment
• bone health evaluation
• liver disease detection
• body composition analysis
• explainable AI

Keywords

• CT screening
• preventive care
• cardiometabolic risk
• bone health
• liver disease
• body composition
• explainable AI
• biologic age

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Radiological Society of North America

Books & works: CT-based Opportunistic Screening for Adding Clinical Value:How I Do It, Radiology

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