ReviewCureus2023
Impact of Magnetic Resonance Imaging on Healthcare in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Current trends and future directions of artificial intelligence in lung cancer diagnosis.Chinese journal of cancer research = Chung-kuo yen cheng yen chiu · 2026Article
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- Rotator Cuff-Related Shoulder Pain: A Survey of Current Physiotherapy Practice in Cyprus.Clinics and practice · 2026Article
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- Bridging semantics and clinical fidelity: a section-based assessment of a vision-language model (RadVLM) for chest x-ray report generation.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Multidimensional correlation magnetic resonance imaging in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities and barriers to equitable deployment.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Current diagnostic modalities for detecting myocardial relaxation function in diabetes-associated heart failure or heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.Current opinion in physiology · 2025Article
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- Embedded framework for clinical medical image segment anything in resource limited healthcare regions.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
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- Diagnostic Accuracy of Antigen ELISA and Western Blot IgG for Neurocysticercosis in People Living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Morphological Brain Analysis Using Ultra Low-Field MRI.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Emerging Role of Multiparametric MRI in the Staging of Bladder Cancer: Insights From the BladderPath Trial.Cureus · 2025Review
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Abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) played a significant role in the digital health platforms that influenced and supported modern medicine. However, there is a shortage of MRI in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The International Society of Radiology offers a detailed plan for LMICs to advance imaging quality in the global health agenda. The overarching objective of this scoping review was to determine the impact of MRI in healthcare in LMICs. This scoping review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines to identify available evidence. We systematically searched four academic databases for peer-reviewed literature published between 2018 and 2021, namely, Medline, PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus, as well as Google Scholar as a source for gray literature. The search identified 54 articles. We identified a range of reasons for introducing MRI in LMICs. Nonetheless, some challenges to accepting MRI as a method of healthcare have been reported, including technological, regulatory, and economical challenges. To implement the proposed plan, the involvement of professional and international organizations is considered crucial. The establishment of an International Commission on Medical Imaging under the umbrella of international organizations is suggested and collaboration with other diagnostic disciplines is encouraged to raise awareness of the importance of upscale diagnostics at large and to foster its integration into the care pathway globally.
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