Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

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Maryland's Eliot Siegel discusses AI's potential for disruption in medical imaging

Health Imaging spoke with Eliot Siegel, MD, before this year’s SIIM Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging to learn more about challenges and opportunities related to artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging, how AI and machine learning should be incorporated into clinical applications and what the future holds for AI.

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AI algorithm IDs abnormal chest x-rays with 90% accuracy

Artificial intelligence (AI)-focused startup Qure.ai published a study Tuesday, Sept. 18, validating its chest x-ray algorithm trained on 1.2 million chest scans and radiology reports.

AI identifies lung cancer type with 97% accuracy

An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm created by NYU School of Medicine researchers distinguished between two forms of lung cancer with 97 percent accuracy, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.

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AI-generated synthetic brain MRI provides diverse, reliable training data

Researchers have created a deep-learning model that can generate synthetic brain MRIs to help train neural networks, according to research published in ArXiv. The technique may provide reliable, shareable training data.

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AI program may spot signs of disease 3 years before symptoms emerge

An artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by Shinjini Kundu, PhD, a physician and medical researcher at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, could find patterns of developing diseases as much as three years earlier than imaging experts.

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Open-source microscopy add-on may improve 2D, 3D brain imaging

Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel created a new microscopy method that utilizes an add-on for laser scanning microscopes to improve the quality of 2D and 3D brain imaging, according to research published Sept. 13 in Optica.

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Canadian researchers’ novel ultrasound machine costs $100 and can be controlled by a smartphone

Engineers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada who developed a new ultrasound transducer say it could lower the cost of ultrasound machines to just $100. The probe is portable, wearable and can be powered by a smartphone.

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AI differentiates between spondylitis MRIs as well as skilled radiologists

Research published online Sept. 3 in Scientific Reports concluded that an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm can differentiate between tuberculous (TB) spondylitis and pyogenic spondylitis on MRI exams with the same level of expertise as skilled musculoskeletal radiologists.

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.