Where hospitals plan big AI deployments: diagnostic imaging

Hospital and radiology specialists will invest some $2 billion every year to deploy artificial intelligence technologies for medical imaging, Signify Research said, and the firm estimated that will happen by 2023. Signify's AI medical imaging category encompasses software for automated detection, quantification, decision support and diagnosis as well as machine learning. Many consultants and analyst houses, in fact, are projecting big growth for AI and related technologies. Consultancy IDC estimated that the worldwide spending on artificial intelligence and cognitive computing overall technologies will grow by 60 percent to $12.5 billion this year. By 2020, it will have climbed to $46 billion.