Radiological AI may never dream of interpreting images—but don’t underestimate its virtual cognitive capacity

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In the same year three humans first orbited the moon, 1968, the sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick published Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The novel imagined a dark, futuristic society in which real people couldn’t be readily distinguished from lifelike androids.

AI algorithm reduces metal artifacts on CT imaging of metallic implants

metal artifacts on CT

CT value difference between pre-surgery images and uncorrected post-surgery images, post-surgery O-MAR images, and post-surgery dl-MAR measured in ROIs on six different locations. Credit: European Journal of Radiology

This is the first study to use paired, real-world clinical CT images to evaluate deep learning-based artifact reduction techniques.