This paper reviews the challenges hindering the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in the healthcare industry, focusing on computer vision applications for medical imaging, and how interoperability and enterprise-grade scalability can be used to address these challenges. The complex nature of healthcare workflows, intricacies in managing large and secure medical imaging data, and the absence of standardized frameworks for AI development pose significant barriers and require a new paradigm to address them. The role of interoperability is examined in this paper as a crucial factor in connecting disparate applications within healthcare workflows. Standards such as DICOM, Health Level 7 (HL7), and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) are highlighted as foundational for common imaging workflows. A specific focus is placed on the role of DICOM gateways, with Smart Routing Rules and Workflow Management leading transformational efforts in this area. To drive enterprise scalability, new tools are needed. Project MONAI, established in 2019, is introduced as an initiative aiming to redefine the development of medical AI applications. The MONAI Deploy App SDK, a component of Project MONAI, is identified as a key tool in simplifying the packaging and deployment process, enabling repeatable, scalable, and standardized deployment patterns for AI applications. The abstract underscores the potential impact of successful AI adoption in healthcare, offering physicians both life-saving and time-saving insights and driving efficiencies in radiology department workflows. The collaborative efforts between academia and industry, are emphasized as essential for advancing the adoption of healthcare AI solutions.

In this blog post, we will discuss the best libraries that can be used in Python for medical imaging. Pydicom is an open-source library for working with Dicom files. It's what we use to load, edit, and save Dicom files! Then there's nibabel, which is the most commonly used library for dealing with nifti files. This is a very useful library for converting Dicom series into nifti files with a single function.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a tremendous impact across most areas of science. Applications of AI in healthcare have the potential to improve our ability to detect, diagnose, prognose, and intervene on human disease. For AI models to be used clinically, they need to be made safe, reproducible and robust, and the underlying software framework must be aware of the particularities (e.g. geometry, physiology, physics) of medical data being processed. This work introduces MONAI, a freely available, community-supported, and consortium-led PyTorch-based framework for deep learning in healthcare. MONAI extends PyTorch to support medical data, with a particular focus on imaging, and provide purpose-specific AI model architectures, transformations and utilities that streamline the development and deployment of medical AI models. MONAI follows best practices for software-development, providing an easy-to-use, robust, well-documented, and well-tested software framework. MONAI preserves the simple, additive, and compositional approach of its underlying PyTorch libraries. MONAI is being used by and receiving contributions from research, clinical and industrial teams from around the world, who are pursuing applications spanning nearly every aspect of healthcare.

Medical Imaging has been used in several applications in the healthcare industry. Deep Learning solutions have exceeded many healthcare tasks in detecting and diagnosing abnormalities in medical data. In January 2020, we noticed Google's DeepMind AI outperformed radiologists in detecting breast cancer, according to Nature's publication. Data management is one of the most critical steps in deep learning solutions. The size of healthcare data is reaching 2314 Exabytes of new data by 2020.

Of all the innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning space this year, the most significant ones have turned out to be in the healthcare and medicine field, the credit of which could be given to the unprecedented pandemic situation around the world. In this article, we discover some of the major breakthroughs in 2020. Termed as a groundbreaking innovation, DeepMind's AI system AlphaFold was developed to present a solution to the 50-year-old grand challenge of determining the protein structure, also referred to as'protein folding problem'. This system demonstrated high levels of accuracy in predicting the 3D structure of a protein. By bringing about significant progress over the core challenges in biology, this system paves the way for disease understanding and drug discovery, even in case of COVID-19, among other fields.

NVIDIA open sources MONAI (Medical Open Network for AI), a framework developed by NVIDIA and King's College London for healthcare professionals using best practices from existing tools, including NVIDIA Clara, NiftyNet, DLTK, and DeepNeuro. Using PyTorch resources, MONAI provides domain-optimized foundational capabilities for developing healthcare imaging training in a standardized way to create and evaluate deep learning models. The MONAI framework is the open-source tool based on Project MONAI. MONAI is a freely available, community-supported, PyTorch-based framework for deep learning in healthcare imaging. It provides domain-optimized foundational capabilities for developing healthcare imaging training workflows in a native PyTorch paradigm.