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Moore’s Law for radiologists

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Most radiologists have heard of Moore’s Law. A close colleague observed that radiologists are affected by a type of Moore’s Law. The amount of scans a radiologist is expected to shift per day is increasing year on year. Today’s radiologist is expected to shift work at an eye-watering rate. Paul McCoubrie, MBBS.

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Generative AI, radiologist shortages feature in 2024 Minnies

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The voters also zeroed in on the ongoing shortage of radiologists as the Biggest Threat to Radiology. Fishman concedes that there are barriers to educational pursuits in the radiology sphere -- not the least of which is pressure on radiologists to generate high relative value units. I'm a radiographer,' " Stewart recalled.

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Is AI ready to replace human readings in TB detection?

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. | S1-SSCH01-5 | E451A This scientific paper may increase overall confidence in the potential of using multimodal AI for tuberculosis (TB) detection, and potentially autonomous reporting, on chest radiographs in certain clinical settings. respectively, where that of three radiologists' ranged between 91.9% to 94.7%, 89.4%

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What's best practice for using AI for thoracic imaging?

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"Practical AI implementation will require objective onsite performance evaluation, institutional information technology infrastructure integration, and postdeployment monitoring," wrote a team led by Eui Jin Hwang, MD, PhD, of Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea.

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Radiologists ‘compete’ on chest x-rays reads with and without AI

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In a study described as a “competition between radiologists,” participants tasked with identifying abnormal findings on chest x-rays performed better with AI assistance than without AI assistance – though not by much and not in all cases, according to a group in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

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Can AI help rule out ‘unremarkable’ chest x-rays?

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The finding by researchers in Copenhagen, Denmark, suggests that AI could eventually help streamline high-volume radiology workflows by handling some of the more “tedious parts of the work,” lead author Louis Plesner, MD, of Herlev and Gentofte Hospital in Denmark told AuntMinnie.com. Annalise.ai ), software cleared in Europe and the U.S.

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AI improves x-ray reads for rads with varying experience

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AI assistance can improve the detection accuracy of thoracic abnormalities on chest x-rays across radiologists with varying levels of expertise, according to a study published December 12 in Radiology. In a retrospective study, a commercially available algorithm (ChestView, v. About 50% of the x-rays had abnormal findings.

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