The Expanding Role of AI in Healthcare: Collaboration and Caution

Artificial intelligence (AI) shows great promise for use in radiology, which involves the use of medical imaging to diagnose and treat disease. Integrating AI tools into radiology could advance the diagnosis, quantification and management of multiple medical conditions. However, it is essential to acknowledge that some AI products may be add little value or even have potential to cause harm.

To ensure that AI is used appropriately, five radiology societies in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand have come together to publish a joint statement on the development and use of AI tools in radiology. This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features an interview with one of the authors of this paper. Bibb Allen is Chief Medical Officer for the American College of Radiology Data Science Institute, and a diagnostic radiologist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama.

Also in this episode, Physics World’s Katherine Skipper reports back from a workshop that looked at how the UK could boost its quantum workforce.