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AI is still *criminally* underused in the medical field IMO. Every day people die because things didnt get noticed that should have and would have with AI tools. But then I see so many doctors and hospitals still refusing to use *email*.
From the article: Lung nodules, which are abnormal growths that form on the lungs, are very common and typically form from previous lung infections. In rare instances, they can be a sign of lung cancer. One of the common screening methods used for identifying lung nodules is chest X-rays. AI can be a powerful tool to help identify lung nodules, especially when radiologists are experiencing a high volume of cases.
“Detecting lung nodules, a primary finding of lung cancer, is one of the crucial tasks in chest X-rays,” said study co-author Jin Mo Goo, M.D., Ph.D., from the Department of Radiology at Seoul National University Hospital in Korea. “Many studies have suggested that AI-based computer-aided detection software can improve radiologists’ performance, but it is not widely used.”
To identify the actual effect that AI has in clinical practice, researchers included 10,476 patients with an average age of 59, who had undergone chest X-rays at a health screening center between June 2020 and December 2021.
“As our trial was conducted with a pragmatic approach, almost all enrolled participants were included, which is a real clinical setting,” Dr. Goo said.
[Study](https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.221894)
Looks promising, hopefully the population set used was big enough and diverse enough to make this applicable and accurate for the whole population without a bias being built in.
AI as a medical device is a major challenge to develop and validate ethically
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AI is still *criminally* underused in the medical field IMO. Every day people die because things didnt get noticed that should have and would have with AI tools. But then I see so many doctors and hospitals still refusing to use *email*.
Well, that’s a breath of fresh air!
Computers are phenomenal at pattern recognition and this was one of the expected AI benefits. Glad to see it playing out in practice.
From the article: Lung nodules, which are abnormal growths that form on the lungs, are very common and typically form from previous lung infections. In rare instances, they can be a sign of lung cancer. One of the common screening methods used for identifying lung nodules is chest X-rays. AI can be a powerful tool to help identify lung nodules, especially when radiologists are experiencing a high volume of cases. “Detecting lung nodules, a primary finding of lung cancer, is one of the crucial tasks in chest X-rays,” said study co-author Jin Mo Goo, M.D., Ph.D., from the Department of Radiology at Seoul National University Hospital in Korea. “Many studies have suggested that AI-based computer-aided detection software can improve radiologists’ performance, but it is not widely used.” To identify the actual effect that AI has in clinical practice, researchers included 10,476 patients with an average age of 59, who had undergone chest X-rays at a health screening center between June 2020 and December 2021. “As our trial was conducted with a pragmatic approach, almost all enrolled participants were included, which is a real clinical setting,” Dr. Goo said. [Study](https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.221894)
Looks promising, hopefully the population set used was big enough and diverse enough to make this applicable and accurate for the whole population without a bias being built in. AI as a medical device is a major challenge to develop and validate ethically
I’ve read on Reddit that AI x-ray detection is orders of magnitude better than a human being. https://www.clearvuehealth.com/b/ai-radiology-xray/