Saving the Robot Radiologists

Futurists sometimes claim that artificial intelligence (AI) will make radiologists obsolete. Their argument has been that compared to humans, algorithms are better and faster at analyzing medical images such as X-rays. So why has this hype failed to become reality? In this opinion piece, Ulysses Isidro and Saurabh Jha write, “For radiology AI to be widely adopted, it needs to overcome several barriers. Most of all, it needs to make the radiologist’s work simpler.” Isidro is a MD/MBA student at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School. He has a diverse range of experiences across radiology, health care management, health policy, and global health and plans to become a diagnostic radiologist. Jha is...