Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

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AI scores 1 against a knee injury common among athletes

The AI development team was guided by a sports-medicine specialist dubbed “the go-to orthopedic surgeon for many of the greatest athletes on the planet.”

October 22, 2021
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Total knee AI/AR cleared for sales in the US

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to a French startup for surgery software that combines AI with augmented reality and computer vision.

April 29, 2021
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Zebra cleared to market 3D printing for orthopedic surgery

An Israeli healthcare AI startup has earned a seventh green light from the FDA. Its latest algorithm can reconstruct X-rays of bones into 3D printouts with no less clarity than would be produced by advanced imaging modalities.

December 9, 2020
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5 notable AI advances presented at RSNA 2020

More than 105 exhibitors presented AI-specific wares in the virtual AI showcase. That was down from 2019’s pre-COVID 150 but still easily beat 2018’s head count, around 75.

December 7, 2020
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AI pioneer wins $1M prize for work in breast imaging, drug discovery

The work of Regina Barzilay, PhD, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, has focused on breast imaging, the development of new antibiotics and much more. 

September 24, 2020

AI specialists raise $53M for new ultrasound software

The solution, Caption AI, was designed to help users “without lengthy specialized training” capture high-quality images.  

July 15, 2020
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‘Doomsday predictions’ about AI replacing radiologists are unrealistic, dangerous

People have been anticipating the demise of radiologists for years, speculating that AI will soon be interpreting imaging results with the precision of a seasoned veteran.

July 2, 2020
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More exposure to AI would make med students less uneasy about radiology

During the fourth, fifth or sixth year of medical school, more than half of students across faculties in Brazil’s largest city believe AI is a threat to the radiology job market.

June 26, 2020

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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