Artificial intelligence to give Toronto doctors a 2nd opinion

Physicians may soon be able to get a second opinion on your diagnosis from a form of homegrown artificial intelligence (AI). Toronto's University Health Network (UHN) is teaming up with researchers at the University of Waterloo and the Vector Institute to develop software that can read and provide feedback on medical images like x-rays and ultrasounds. The groundbreaking technology is specifically aimed at assisting radiologists and pathologists. "We are trying to basically go after the biggest problems of medical imaging, which we call user variability," said Dr. Hamid Tizhoosh, director of the KIMIA lab at the University of Waterloo. "Different radiologists may have a different diagnosis looking at the same image – and it seems that AI can assist in removing that variability."