ISMRM: Radiology AI technology is here -- and more is coming

SINGAPORE - AI is already changing the practice of medical imaging, and there's more technological growth to come, according to a plenary talk delivered May 4 at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) annual meeting.Charlene Liew, MD, director of cardiothoracic imaging at Changi General Hospital in Singapore, outlined the current state of AI in radiology and where it is going in a presentation called "AI in Radiology: The Past Informs the Future.""Today's radiology workforce stands at the vanguard of medical innovation, using cutting edge technologies to improve patient outcomes," she said.In the 2010s, Chinese-born American computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, PhD, built ImageNet, a dataset that consisted of 14 million annotated images allowed for advances in computer vision. More than a decade later, AI has taken hold in the healthcare enterprise, particularly in medical imaging: In fact, in 2022, 77% of AI tools approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were for radiology indications.AI is now in all stages of the radiology workflow, from patient preparation, scan preparation and execution, and reading images and reporting results, Liew noted. Its impact on radiographer workflow ranges from detecting poor image quality on x-ray; automating CT imaging protocols; and for MRI, streamlining workflows for faster scan times, image reconstruction, and using synthetic MRI sequences."The advent of AI heralds a new era in healthcare, one characte...
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