MEDRADRESEARCH

Our April blog is from Dr. Tracy O'Regan. Tracy is a diagnostic radiographer who works at the Society & College of Radiographers (SCoR) as officer for clinical imaging and research. She sits on the steering committee for UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Cancer Diagnosis Network, she is a member of NHSx AI Imaging Advisory Board, and she provides officer support for a SCoR AI & Emerging Technologies Working Party who are currently consulting on a guidance document with recommendations and priorities for AI for UK professionals. In 2011 Nilsson wrote a book that explored 50 years of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (1). Nilsson described AI winters and a series of false dawns; each progressed the path to our current stage of AI with the promise of machine learning, neural networks and deep learning. Despite that development, in the main, clinical imaging and radiotherapy professionals are still discussing AI as if it is a new fashion or perhaps even the emperor's new clothes.