Special Report: Imaging AI

During Covid-19, NHSX set up an initiative to support innovation in imaging AI, but has it made a difference? Vivienne Raper reports.

In March 2020, Dr Mark Halling-Brown contacted NHSX about using imaging artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle the national crisis around Covid-19.

“We contacted them to say we’ve got experience with our breast screening database where we’re using it to share data, train and validate AI, and we should have the same sort of thing for Covid,” he explains.

Halling-Brown, who is head of scientific computing at Royal Surrey County Hospital, swiftly discovered that the British Society of Thoracic Imaging (BSTI) had started a similar project. The BSTI had started setting up processes for...