In 2016, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton predicted radiologists would be replaced by computers within five years, but the field has continued to grow, with the number of practitioners expected to rise by 26 percent or more over the next three decades. Radiology has nonetheless become medicine's biggest AI hotspot, accounting for about three-quarters of the 1,400 AI-enabled medical devices cleared by the FDA.
These tools can draft reports, flag urgent cases, and sometimes identify abnormalities better than human eyes, with AI-assisted colonoscopies, for example, finding more polyps than conventional ones. Rather than eliminating radiologists, AI is poised to dramatically change how they work.
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