AuntMinnie May 4, 2018
Much of what radiologists do today will be automated in the future, and it would behoove them to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) early to ensure their future value in healthcare, according to a presentation on April 27 at the Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR) annual meeting in Montreal.
Speaking at the meeting about how AI can make healthcare better, Dr. James Min noted that machines are already outperforming radiologists in some tasks. It’s not a good use of a radiologist’s time to duplicate readings of images if deep learning, as an example, yields 93% accuracy, he said.
“Machines are better than us in almost everything we do where pattern recognition is involved and the task...