Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Radiologists?

摘要

As computer performance on complex vision tasks approaches that of clinical experts, radiologists look over their shoulders. Some of the ebullience for these new systems arises from the allure of creating beings in our own image (1). But the excitement is powered primarily by real innovation (2). Medical image analysis projects that once took years now can be completed in a matter of days or weeks. These huge leaps in computer vision have inspired dreams of health care transformation. But the extreme optimism often overshoots reality and dissipates during scientific “winters” of disregard (3). Artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology has, so far, followed this script.