Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

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ASNR honors neuroradiology fellow for deep learning research

The American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) announced that Peter Chang, MD, a neuroradiology fellow at the University of California San Francisco, has received the Cornelius G. Dyke Memorial Award for his recent research involving deep learning technologies.

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Machine learning identifies lymphedema in breast cancer survivors with 94% accuracy

Researchers from the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing have found machine learning using real-time symptom reports to be accurate in identifying lymphedema early in breast cancer patients. Findings were published in the May 2018 issue of mHealth.

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Machine learning trumps conventional analysis in detecting lymphedema

Machine learning algorithms can now identify lymphedema—a chronic side effect of breast cancer treatment—with 94 percent accuracy, New York University researchers reported this month in mHealth.

3D-printed model can be cheap, effective in surgical planning for hip condition

Utilizing a 3D model in the preoperative planning of osteoplasty for a hip impingement condition can alter the location and extent of the preparation, potentially improving patient outcomes at minimal cost.

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ASCO 2018: Advanced MRI—aided by AI—classifies brain tumors based on mutation status, decreasing diagnostic uncertainty

Research presented at ASCO 2018 found that using contrast perfusion-weighted MRI enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) and texture analysis can differentiate between brain tumors according to their mutation status.

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AI imaging software highly vulnerable to cyberattacks

“The most striking thing to me as a researcher crafting these attacks was probably how easy they were to carry out," said study lead author Samuel Finlayson, a computer scientist and biomedical informatician at Harvard Medical School in Boston, in an IEEE Spectrum story.

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2 AI-related lessons radiologists can take from self-driving cars

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to change transportation with self-driving vehicles, Kimberly Powell, with the Nvidia Corporation, and colleagues believe their work on the subject can also be applied to radiology.

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Curt Langlotz at SIIM 2018: AI's impact will be 'real and profound'

The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine’s 2018 annual meeting wrapped up with a keynote address from Curt Langlotz, MD, PhD, with Stanford University, on the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).