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.

AI newswatch: Nurses want in, transcriptionists on the way out, blockchain going up, more
If doctors are the heart of the hospital, nurses are surely the soul. And if that’s so, today’s AI has to be something like a nutritional supplement for the brains of the operation.
Real-world use of generative AI boosts radiologist productivity by up to 40%
“For me and my colleagues, it’s not an exaggeration to say that it doubled our efficiency," says radiologist Samir F. Abboud, MD, chief of emergency radiology at Northwestern.
Research review: Patients have understandably mixed feelings about AI in healthcare
A new review of the relevant scientific literature suggests many if not most patients are aware that healthcare AI’s emerging benefits exist side-by-side with its persistent uncertainties.
AI detects twice as many incidental lesions as radiologists
Prior research has suggested that these incidental lesions turn out to be cancerous in up to 70% of cases, making their timely detection critical.
A closer look at GE HealthCare's new lower-cost cardiac CT scanner
As cardiac CT continues to get used more and more, GE HealthCare has launched a new scanner designed to meet the needs of both outpatient imaging centers and larger hospitals.

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Congress is swamped with AI bills.

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UN effort afoot to address the world’s ‘governance deficit with respect to AI’

The AI advisory board of the United Nations is calling for the creation of a global AI data framework.

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AI deployment platform Ferrum Health ups fundraising total to $31M

The California company's platform allows radiologists and other clinicians to validate the performance of AI on local datasets and deploy such software in existing workflows.

Company that handles teleradiology reads for urgent care centers adds AI enhancements

Private equity-backed Experity completes over 5 million radiology studies annually with an average turnaround time of 10.78 minutes for STAT reads.

Deep learning denoising produces quality trauma head CT images at 25% of the radiation dose

Denoising algorithm produces quality trauma head CTs at a fraction of the radiation dose

Radiation doses needed for quality head CT scans in trauma settings can be reduced by as much as 75% using DL-based denoising.

ChatGPT is 'robbing applicants of their voices' in residency applications

The growing use of ChatGPT on residency applications is prompting concerns over how LLMs might affect the authenticity and value of personal statements in the future.

AI catches overlooked broken vertebra on X-rays, with sizable cost-saving implications

The software could opportunistically screen patients at a smaller cost than other interventions, given it automatically operates "in the background" on radiographs performed for other reasons.

Radiology AI firm specializing in automating MRI workflows raises $19M

Copenhagen-based Cerebriu said the Danish VC firm North Ventures led the Series A funding round with support from EIFO and Sagitta Ventures.

Artificial Intelligence

AI newswatch: Nurses want in, transcriptionists on the way out, blockchain going up, more

Real-world use of generative AI boosts radiologist productivity by up to 40%

Research review: Patients have understandably mixed feelings about AI in healthcare

AI detects twice as many incidental lesions as radiologists

A closer look at GE HealthCare's new lower-cost cardiac CT scanner