Will radiologists and surgeons soon be replaced by Artificial Intelligence?

What will this mean for the future of health care?

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On this episode of Rhona Ask, Rhona is joined by Dr. Stephen Aylward, to discuss the implications of A.I in medical image analysis.

Dr. Aylward is is Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Kitware. Kitware provides software research and development services in medical image analysis, computer vision, simulation, and scientific visualization. Kitware’s services build upon the open-source software that it manages, such as 3D Slicer, CMake, VTK, ITK, and ParaView.

Stephen is also an adjunct associate professor in computer science at UNC and chair of the MONAI deep learning system advisory board. His research is focused on point-of-care ultrasound applications and vascular network characterization for disease assessment.

In this episode, Rhona and Dr. Aylward discuss:

• Why there will always be aspects of human care that A.I’s may never reach.
• How A.I in healthcare may close the gap between developed and developing countries.
• How A.I will improve the accuracy of a surgeons performance in the near future.
• Why augmented reality and virtual reality technologies will be game changers for the medical world.

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QUOTES:

“When the technology exists for A.I to replace doctors and are capable of doing it, people are still going to want to see that human side of things.” - Dr. Aylward

“Sometimes a little more logic needs to go into these decisions, and so I think it will, overall, be an improvement in healthcare.” - Dr. Aylward

“The regulations are going to have to be placed by the government, because we as individuals aren’t going to be able to protect ourselves is these systems get put in place. What are we going to do about it? We’re going to stop going to the hospital? No. I think this is were governments are going to have to step in to protect the individuals rights.” - Dr. Aylward

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