Comment Re:All radiologists do is analyze digital images (Score 1) 89
Which is peanuts compared to the recurring $500-600k cost of a radiologist's annual salary.
It's not peanuts at all, which is precisely why there is also competition in the medical industry to reduce radiologists, and push more work onto larger centralized corporately hosted radiology mills.
I don't get the sense that these models are ready to replace radiologists yet
They're not even close.
LLMs outperform doctors in diagnostics. ImageNets do not outperform them clearly*.
but the closer we get the more tempting it'll be for individuals like the CEO quoted in this article. The ROI is massive.
Radiologists today are being "replaced" (in that more work is piled onto less radiologists now augmented by AI)
That is still replacement.
* there are some cases where ImageNets do outperform radiologists, and there are also cases where they do significantly poorly.
VLMs also have a very noted problem in the way that they're trained that leads them to producing reports that are quite bad when evaluated by other radiologists (implying the trainers aren't using radiologists to train the output)