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. 

Will CT change the way we travel?

Everyone has waited in long airport security lines only to get stuck behind a passenger who forgets to remove her laptop from the bag or leaves his shoes on. Now, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is testing CT technology that could alter the way we travel.

Tech CEO: Physicians will need to become more empathetic alongside AI

Emotional intelligence will soon become almost vital for doctors to master as the use of artificial intelligence machine learning in medicine draws near, suggests Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz.  

What allows singers to hit high notes? CT scans provide insight

We put on our headphones every day, but who considers what allows singers to reach the high notes? Swiss researchers, that’s who.

Thumbnail

AI proves capable in analyzing kidney biopsy images

A research team with Boston University of Medicine has demonstrated artificial intelligence (AI) can analyze kidney biopsy images more accurately than traditional human methods.

CT scans are giving new life to dinosaurs

A mere 200 million years ago, the South African dinosaur Massospondylus walked the earth—and now, thanks to modern CT imaging, researchers have a better understanding of the Jurassic giant.

AI system shows early promise in helping heart, lung patients

Researchers at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, United Kingdom, have created artificial intelligence that is able to read scans for heart disease and lung cancer, according to an article in BBC News.

Turning back time with a scan

Researchers used CT scan, coupled with specialized software to 'open' the pages of an ancient book thought to be permanently sealed.

New MRI brain mapping method links between connectivity, IQ

Researchers, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge, have found a correlation between interconnectivity of brain regions and individual intelligence using brain MRI, according to a study published online in Neuron.

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.