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The battle between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Radiologists

Radiology Cafe

The use of AI has already set foot in the field of modern radiology with a recent example of this being the use of Computer Aided Detection (CAD) in assisting radiologists in screening for lung cancer on Computed Tomography (4). The future of image perception in radiology: synergy between humans and computers.

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A brief history of radiology

Radiology Cafe

Tomography originates from the Greek words ‘tomos’, meaning ‘slice’ or ‘section’, and ‘graphia’, meaning ‘description of’. In the 1960s computers were increasingly available and more powerful and in 1971, the first computed tomography (CT) scan was performed on a patient. Modern trends in interventional radiology.