Artificial Intelligence Powered X-Rays? -- AI Daily - Artificial Intelligence News

These research-based efforts were seen earlier last week, as a brand new'artificial intelligence powered X-ray device' that GE Healthcare claimed could reduce the time interval in detecting a collapsed lung by a staggering factor of 32, from 8 hours to 15 minutes, was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). GE Healthcare CEO Kieran Murphy, in an interview with CNBC, said, "The health-care industry is producing huge amounts of data from images to digital health records, we strongly believe that you have to turn that data into information and insight to improve outcomes." The device, coined the'Critical Care Suite', utilizes artificial intelligence-based algorithms to scan X-ray images and detect cases of collapsed lung. One can only assume that deep learning algorithms are put in use to identify trends and patterns in the data sets that Kieran Murphy mentions, and is assessed in its efficacy to spot recurrent themes in a new sample of data. When the AI system has reason to suspect any condition, the scan is sent off to a radiologist as a confirming measure, and as such this is another example of AI-assisted healthcare, not AI-led, as is the reasonable role of artificial intelligence given its youth in the healthcare industry.