Artificial Intelligence Can Now Manipulate Medical Images Well...

Sometime in the early 2000s, while sitting in my dentist's chair, I began to wonder about the potential real-world pain that someone could potentially inflict on another human being simply by hacking the new digital x-ray system that the dentist had installed. Would it be possible, for example, for a hacker to modify the digital images from the x-rays so that the dentist would not be able to find and repair painful cavities, or to cause the dentist to perform an unnecessary root canal, filling, or other procedure? How certain could I be that the images of my own teeth were not tampered with? Several years later, when I had my a digital MRI after an auto accident, I wondered even further – could hackers modify images in such a manner so as to cause a person to have his head cut open to remove a tumor when, in fact, he had no tumors? Or to cause a scan to appear normal when the victim actually had a life threatening condition requiring immediate attention?