As someone who works in healthcare, so much of what I read about AI makes me think that the people who are enthusiastic about healthcare AI don't have much experience doing it. The scenarios rarely seem to fit with what I'm actually practicing. Most of medicine is boring, it is largely routine, and if we don't know what's going on, it's because we're not the right person to be managing the patient. Most of my time is…
I work in radiology with MRI as a tech. We use AI slightly differently to the examples here, but it’s changing a lot of what we do. It’s more about enhancing images than directly about diagnosing. The image is denoised ‘intelligently’ in k-space and then the resolution is doubled via another AI process in the image domain (or maybe the resolution is quadrupled, as it depends on how you measure it. Our pixel count dou…
Re: AI models that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest
#161I just went through this with my knee surgeon, he was raving about the quality now coming out of the 3T scanner, saying that after the latest software update it gives better quality than the experimental 7T scanner, to the point where they are considering abandoning the 7T scanner study they were doing prematurely.