Comment Re: Radiologists aren't going away (Score 1) 97
I have been told since before medical school that AI would kill radiology, yet here we are 13+ years later and its nowhere close. In fact, it is a struggle for us to hire new radiologists because the demand is high right now.
Of course that doesn't mean it will never happen, but more than likely I will be retired before the need for radiologists is significantly impacted.
We have been using AI in certain parts of radiology for a while (breast and lung cancer screening being the biggest examples). I welcome it as do most radiologists because it will presumably help with the tedium and with incidental stuff that radiologists are most prone to missing.
For example, I specialized in neuroradiology. If I look through a CT of someone's thoracic spine I also see their lungs. It is such a pain in the ass to look for pulmonary nodules, and then if I find one a decision has to be made about what to do with it including the possibility of more imaging, pulmonology/thoracic surgery consult, biopsy etc. I would be so happy if AI was at the point it could screen for all of that stuff reliably.