AI For Imaging: Experts Delve Into Its Promise

Will artificial intelligence (AI) replace radiologists? During a session on AI and imaging yesterday at the Big Data in Biomedicine conference, panelists preempted this question (which keeps some radiologists up at night) by clarifying how, at least for now, AI isn't a replacement for doctors, but a tool to help them. "The human-machine system always performs better than either alone," said Curt Langlotz, MD, PhD, a professor of radiology and biomedical informatics at Stanford. And while AI is achieving human-level performance, it's not necessarily superseding it -- yet. All panelists spoke about AI's capacity to increase efficiency.