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the European Society of Radiology

This blog aims at bringing educational and critical perspectives on AI to readers. It should help imaging professionals to learn and keep up to date with the technologies being developed in this rapidly evolving field.

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Deep learning for the determination of myometrial invasion depth and automatic lesion identification in endometrial cancer MR imaging

Endometrial cancer (EC) has the highest rate of malignancy in women in the entire world, including China, which has the largest population. Accurately staging EC prior to an invasive procedure still poses a challenge for clinicians. In the present study, we used more than five hundred EC patients’ MR images to train the computer to establish a deep learning diagnostic

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Can training data help radiologists to open deep learning black box?

Deep learning has recently pervaded the radiology field, reaching promising results that have encouraged both scientists and entrepreneurs to apply these models to improve patient care. However, “with great power there must also come — great responsibility” [1]! In most cases, the complexity of deep learning models forces their users, and sometimes also their developers, to treat them as black

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Looking outside the box: inspector robots, machine learning helping to catalogue history, and sanitizing work spaces without humans

This week in artificial intelligence (AI) news, we take a look at systems being utilized for quality control in factories while some workers are in quarantine, cataloguing print media over the past 200 years using machine learning technology, and robotics in Boston helping local organizations to sanitize their workplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rise of the COVID-19 pandemic has

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Automated classification of solid renal masses on contrast-enhanced computed tomography images using convolutional neural network with decision fusion

The purpose of this study was to develop a deep learning-based method for the automated classification of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) from benign solid renal masses using contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) images. The authors determined that a semi-automated majority voting convolutional neural network (CNN) based methodology enabled the accurate classification of RCC from benign neoplasms among solid renal masses on

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Development and validation of machine learning prediction model based on computed tomography angiography–derived hemodynamics for rupture status of intracranial aneurysms: a Chinese multicenter study

Decisions regarding the optimal management of unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs) depend on a comprehensive comparison of the risks between aneurysm rupture and interventional treatment. The accurate prediction for UIA rupture risk is important for clinicians and patients. Our study further proves that the hemodynamic parameters can improve prediction performance for rupture status of UIAs. Moreover, the AUC of model integrating

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Looking outside the box: facial recognition to enforce wearing masks, robotics saving coral reefs, and virtual partners during quarantine

This week in artificial intelligence (AI) news, we take a look at facial recognition technology being used to monitor citizens and whether or not they are following best health practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, the potential of robotics and AI to help save the disappearing coral reefs, and an augmented/virtual reality app to help solve the loneliness crisis. In the

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Optimal matrix size of chest radiographs for computer-aided detection on lung nodule or mass with deep learning

In this study, the authors retrospectively collected 2,088 abnormal and 352 normal chest radiographs from two institutions in order to investigate the optimal input matrix size for deep learning-based computer-aided detection (CAD) of nodules and masses on chest radiographs. This resulted in the matrix size 896 as having the highest performance for various sizes of abnormalities using different convolutional neural

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New algorithm hopes to fight COVID-19 in international effort

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen doctors, healthcare institutions, and companies come together in an international effort to drive innovative solutions in the fight against this disease. AI-powered technology is one path that is being utilized to manage the heavy burden placed on clinicians as their workload increases. Dr. Dorin Comaniciu, who serves as Senior Vice President for Artificial Intelligence and

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Implementation of eHealth and AI integrated diagnostics with multidisciplinary digitized data: are we ready from an international perspective?

Increasing numbers of publications document the potential of radiomics and artificial intelligence (AI)-aided diagnostics, and the Corona pandemic made the importance of digitally well-connected health systems even clearer. However, although the essential technologies are already available, the progress into clinical routine application is considerably slow. Thus, we intended to perform a comprehensive analysis to learn from the experiences of pioneering

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Looking outside the box: IBM halts facial recognition, journalists replaced by AI, and navigating the high volume of COVID-19-related articles

This week in artificial intelligence (AI) news, we take a look at IBM’s decision to halt the development of facial recognition software, Microsoft using an AI systems to replace teams of journalists who curate news stories for its website MSN.com, and sifting through the extremely high volume of articles and research being published on COVID-19. IBM’s recent decision to stop

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