AI and medical imaging march on, hand in hand

“Between artificial intelligence and the evolution of imaging technologies, the marriage of those two forces is going to be just out of this world.”

So says Jonathan Kanevsky, MD, of McGill University Health Center in Montreal in an Aug. 16 article in The Atlantic. The piece doesn’t break any news but does a nice job summing up the state and potential of AI.

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