Health Imaging May 11, 2018
The growing consensus around artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology is trending toward the two developing a symbiotic relationship—rather than AI leading to a fateful end for radiologists.
However, still plenty of skeptics remain, such as Robert Schier, MD, with Radnet in Orinda, California who penned the recent article in the Journal of the American College of Radiology titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Radiology: An Alternative View.”
“What we will eventually see in radiology are diagnostic image interpretation systems that have read every textbook and journal article; know all of a patient’s history, records, and laboratory reports; and have memorized millions of imaging studies,” wrote Schier. “It may help to imagine these systems not as a collection of circuits...