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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FDA clears AI screening tool for cardiac amyloidosis
Ultromics designed EchoGo Amyloidosis to evaluate routine echocardiogram results for signs of cardiac amyloidosis. It received the FDA's breakthrough device designation back in 2023.

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New AI model predicts cancer risk based on breast asymmetry

The program is a simplified modification of the popular Mirai deep-learning algorithm, developed by researchers at MIT to predict future cancer.

March 25, 2024

Radiologists are not a monolith: AI impacts members of the specialty differently

“Surprisingly,” experts wrote in Nature Medicine, experience-based factors such as a physicians’ subspecialty or previous AI use failed to reliably predict the technology's impact.

March 22, 2024

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March 22, 2024

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AI alone won’t save lives or improve health: Kaiser Permanente AI exec

Imperfect algorithms. Resistant clinicians. Wary patients. Divisive disparities. The plot ingredients of a flashy techno-thriller coming to a cineplex near you? No—just a few of the many worries that provider organizations take on when they move to adopt AI at scale.

March 22, 2024

Deep learning-based MRI reconstruction software produces considerable cost savings

Oulu University Hospital believes AI will allow it to deliver the same level of service with one fewer scanner, enabling annual savings of over $436,000.

March 21, 2024