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RSNA 2019: AI, Machine Learning Continue To Dominate Developments In Radiology

 
• By Phil Greenfield

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning took center stage at this year’s Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago, and the pervasiveness of AI tech in new product launches was further emphasized at the RSNA’s expanded AI Showcase exhibit.

Tech Exhibit Floor 2018

At last year’s RSNA, Siemens Healthineers AG debuted its first AI-based software assistant for radiology, the AI-Rad Companion Chest CT, which automates enhanced visualization of CT images of the lungs, heart and aorta. This year, the company added two more AI-based software assistants that are designed to free radiologists from the burden of performing routine activities during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations of the brain and prostate.

AI-Rad Companion Prostate MR for Biopsy Support automatically segments the outer contour of the prostate, which can cut the time needed for this activity down to a few seconds. The radiologist then marks the suspect areas and passes the annotated MRI images to the urologist for fusion with the ultrasound images during the biopsy

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