Radiologists do not go anywhere Techcrunch

Nine years ago, Amnesty International, Jeffrey Hinton, has sent shock waves through medicine by announcing it “completely clear” that artificial intelligence would make radiologists become extinct in a short time. Fast forward and specialists-who do more than images analysis-thrive, The New York Times notes. In fact, this area suffers from explosive growth in the manpower crisis that is looming on the horizon. (According to the projections of the American Medical Colleges Association, the United States will face an amazing shortage of 42,000 radiologists and other doctors ’specialists by 2033.)

Instead of job theft, this piece notes, and AI became a secret weapon for radiologists, allowing them to measure organs immediately, automatically deformities, and even detect diseases years ago before traditional methods. In Mayo Clinic, where radiation numbers have increased by 55 % since Hinton predictions, the radiology department has grown to include a team of 40 people of artificial intelligence scientists, researchers, analysts and engineers who licensed and developed more than 250 artificial intelligence, ranging from tissue analyst.

“After five years from now, it will be wrong practices not to use artificial intelligence,” says John Hallamka, the head of the Mayo Clinic platform, who supervises the digital system’s digital initiatives.