The Future of Radiology and Artificial Intelligence

There is a lot of hype and plenty of fear around artificial intelligence and its impact on the future of healthcare. There are many signs pointing towards the fact that AI will completely move the world of medicine. As deep learning algorithms and narrow AI started to buzz especially around the field of medical imaging, many radiologists went into panic mode. In his presentation at the GPU Tech Conference in San Jose in May 2017, Curtis Langlotz, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University, mentioned how he received an e-mail from one of his students saying he was thinking about going into radiology but does not know whether it is a viable profession anymore. But the assumption that the radiologist profession is dying, is just plain wrong.