Facebook, NYU School of Medicine team up for AI MRI research - MedCity News

Social media giant Facebook and NYU School of Medicine's Department of Radiology have collaborated to examine how artificial intelligence can boost the speed of MRI scans. The project, dubbed fastMRI, will focus first on altering how MRI machines operate. Usually, scanners gather raw numerical data and turn it into cross-sectional images of internal body structures. When more data has to be captured, the scan takes longer. Overall, the scan can take anywhere from 15 minutes to more than an hour.