Three Benefits to Deploying Artificial Intelligence in Radiology Workflows

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the capability to provide radiologists with tools to help improve their productivity and decision making, possibly leading to quicker diagnosis and improved patient outcomes. As evidenced by the great number of vendors entering the market, it is initially deploying as a diverse collection of assistive applications and tools. These are allowing radiologists to augment, quantify and stratify the information available to them and has the promise to provide major opportunities to enhance and augment the radiology reading and richness of the resulting reports. It is also improving access to medical record information with the goal of helping to give radiologists more time to think about what is going on with patients, diagnose more complex cases, collaborate with patient care teams, and perform more invasive procedures. Deep Learning algorithms in particular have promise to transform the foundation for decision making and workflow, as these types of algorithms have the ability to "learn" by example to execute a task as well as interpret new data.