Radiologists do not go anywhere | Techcrunch

Nine years ago, AI pioneer Jeffrey Hinton sent shock waves through medicine, declaring “just obvious” that AI would make radiologists disappeared in a short order. Quickly forward and specialists, who do more than an analysis of images-bloom, Notes New York TimesS In fact, the field experiences explosive growth against the background of an oncoming workforce crisis. (According to the forecasts of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will face a stunning shortage of up to 42,000 radiologists and other specialists in physician by 2033))

Instead of stealing jobs, it notes that the track, AI, has become a secret weapon of radiologists, which allows them to immediately measure organs, automatically mark anomalies and even detect diseases years before conventional methods. At the Mayo Clinic, where the number of radiologists jumped 55% after Hinton’s forecast, the radiology department has increased to include a 40th team of AI scientists, researchers, analyzers and engineers who have been licensed and developed more than 250 AI models ranging from analiating Analyis.

“In five years, AI will not be used,” says John Halaka, President of the Mayo Clinic platform, who leads the digital health system initiatives in the article.