No, identifying the tumor is only step 1, and is the easiest step. Most non-radiologists can identify whether a tumor is present. The harder part (and the true value of radiologist reads) is everything that comes after finding the tumor: what structures are the tumor invading? Is there spread to lymph nodes? Are there secondary findings that might affect the diagnosis or treatment?These questions and their relevance changes for every individual case, and while each question by itself may be approachable with AI, getting a detailed and relevant report without meaningless noise from an AI ensemble is a very very hard problem.
908B64B197|4 years ago
These are all interesting problems where I could see an AI struggling. I guess the next step, once tumor identification becomes a solved problem, will be to train the AI on treatment data and follow-up, ie, this is an example where there was spread to lymph nodes.
Interesting times ahead!