Medical Imaging Is Changing... Forever

Radiologists are in short supply. Backlogs are only continuing to build. With an aging population and burnout from COVID only making things worse, something needs to change or outcomes for patients will only get worse.

In today’s episode, we discuss how Artificial Intelligence is assisting Radiologists and their midlevels in workflow, and soon with diagnostics as well.

With hundreds of startups around the world using synthetic data generation to train AI models with a level of precision never before seen, the natural question to ask is, how will this impact radiologists within the next decade?

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

1:30 The Problems Facing Radiologists

14:37 The Hurdle of the FDA

18:05 Improving Radiology Workflow

21:15 The Data Availability Struggle

22:44 De-identifying Data

23:26 Synthetic Data

29:48 MONAI

30:37 The Beginning of the Future

38:24 Opthamology, Cardiology, Neurology

41:45 Last Thoughts

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References

World Population

• https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/

Healthcare Provider Statistics

• https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-president-sounds-alarm-national-physician-shortage

• https://www.statista.com/statistics/186269/total-active-physicians-in-the-us/

• https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291071.htm

• https://www.aanp.org/about/all-about-nps/np-fact-sheet#:~:text=There%20are%20more%20than%20385%2C000,NPs)%20licensed%20in%20the%20U.S.&text=More%20than%2039%2C000%20new%20NPs,academic%20programs%20in%202021%2D2022.

• https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291229.htm

• https://www.statista.com/statistics/209424/us-number-of-active-physicians-by-specialty-area/

• https://www.zippia.com/radiology-assistant-jobs/demographics/

• https://www.google.com/search?q=can+an+rpa+interpret+radiology+exams&oq=can+an+rpa+interpret+radiology+exams&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigAdIBCDk0NzVqMGo0qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

• https://radiologybusiness.com/sponsored/1073/mmp/topics/healthcare-management/business-intelligence/radiology-assistants-users

Radiology Backlog

• https://radiologybusiness.com/topics/healthcare-management/healthcare-economics/large-volume-radiologist-reporting-backlogs-urgent-global-issue#:~:text=The%20problem%20persisted%20at%20the,99%25)%20for%20chest%20radiographs.

• https://www.rsna.org/news/2022/may/global-radiologist-shortage

• https://www.aidence.com/articles/workload-in-radiology/