To become leaders in AI, radiologists must address a variety of challenges

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the biggest topics in healthcare today, and the authors of a recent analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology wrote at length about radiology's role in the development and implementation of these state-of-the-art technologies. "The radiology community has played a leading role in propelling medicine into its digital age and now has the opportunity to become a leader in exploring medical applications of AI," wrote lead author James H. Thrall, MD, department of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues. "The tens of millions of radiology reports and billions of images now archived in digital form exemplify the concept of'big data' and constitute the required substrate for AI research." Thrall and colleagues covered considerable ground, including the various challenges specialists face as they work to use AI to their advantage. "None of the challenges alone will be a showstopper but all may slow progress and need to be addressed," the authors wrote.