Medical Imaging

Deep Learning Tool Could Offer MRI Clinical Decision Support

by Jessica Kent

Applying a deep learning model to knee magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams helped increase the accuracy and speed of knee injury classification, and could provide clinical decision support for...

Big Data to See Explosive Growth, Challenging Healthcare Organizations

by Jessica Kent

The volume of big data is projected to grow faster in healthcare than it will in other sectors over the next seven years, leaving healthcare organizations with the challenge of managing extremely large...

NYU, Facebook Offer Dataset for MRI Artificial Intelligence Project

by Jessica Kent

NYU School of Medicine’s Department of Radiology, in collaboration with Facebook AI Research (FAIR), are releasing a large-scale, open source MRI dataset as part of fastMRI, a project that...

Deep Learning for Medical Imaging Fares Poorly on External Data

by Jennifer Bresnick

A deep learning model trained to identify pneumonia on a contained sample of medical images was unable to achieve the same level of accuracy when let loose on data from external healthcare systems,...

Top 5 Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging

by Jennifer Bresnick

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have captivate the healthcare industry as these innovative analytics strategies become more accurate and applicable to a variety of tasks. AI is...

MRI Images Created by AI Could Help Train Deep Learning Models

by Jennifer Bresnick

Maybe it takes one to know one – and maybe it takes one to train one.  Researchers at the Mayo Clinic, NVIDIA, and the MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science are exploring how...

FDA Sets Goals for Big Data, Clinical Trials, Artificial Intelligence

by Jessica Kent

The FDA is turning to cost-effective strategies and big data to accelerate clinical trial efficiency, medical product development, and innovations in artificial intelligence, according to a recent blog...

Deep Learning IDs Neurological Scans 150 Times Faster than Humans

by Jessica Kent

A deep learning platform designed to identify acute neurological conditions, including stroke, hemorrhage, and hydrocephalus, detected disease in CT scans in 1.2 seconds, or 150 times faster than human...

Facebook, NYU Will Use Artificial Intelligence for Faster MRIs

by Jessica Kent

Facebook and NYU School of Medicine’s Department of Radiology have announced a new collaborative research project that will study the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to make MRI scans up to...

Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging Market to Top $2B

by Jennifer Bresnick

The market for artificial intelligence (AI) tools to process and analyze medical imaging studies is slated to push past $2 billion by 2023, according to a new report from Signify Research. Healthcare...

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Radiology, Pathology

by Jessica Kent

Artificial intelligence and machine learning tools have the potential to analyze large datasets and extract meaningful insights to enhance patient outcomes, an ability that is proving helpful in...

NIH Makes Largest Set of Medical Imaging Data Available to Public

by Jessica Kent

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center has released a dataset of more than 32,000 medical images to help enhance the accuracy of lesion detection. The dataset, called DeepLesion,...

Machine Learning Tool IDs Macular Degeneration as Well as Humans

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), together with collaborators at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, have developed a machine learning tool that can...

Deep Learning Tool Tops Dermatologists in Melanoma Detection

by Jessica Kent

A deep learning tool identified melanoma in dermoscopic images with more accuracy than dermatologists, according to a study published in the Annals of Oncology. The convolutional neural network (CNN)...

FDA Clears Marketing for AI Algorithm to Detect Wrist Fractures

by Jennifer Bresnick

The FDA has cleared one of the first artificial intelligence algorithms intended to provide clinical decision support at the point of care, officials announced this week.  Imagen’s...