JAMA: 7 forces will drive adoption of AI in healthcare

Digital imaging in all of its forms is becoming more powerful and more integral to medicine and healthcare. Deep learning can capitalize on all of the patterns that can be extracted from very large datasets and used for interpreting still and moving images, according to Naylor. "Deep learning and related machine-learning methods can also learn from massively greater numbers of images than any human expert, continue learning and adapting over time, mitigate interobserver variability, and facilitate better decision-making and more effective image-guided therapy," he wrote.