Will Radiologists lose jobs to AI?

about your your colleagues here at Stanford or your fellow radiologists what is I know there's kind of community concern people talking about jobs the future myself as a medical student what does that look like in 10 20 years what do you see from that picture you know there have been a lot of opinion pieces and editorials written about the future of radiology does this mean the end of radiology and I think that from a very superficial viewpoint you can draw those conclusions because you're seeing models deep learning models or artificial intelligence that can perform some of the tasks that we do as radiologists but I think that one of the reasons that that narrative has not really caught on in the radiology community that does the research at least is that when you really are in the weeds and you understand fundamentally the complexities of the job that we do and you hold that against the the complexities of the of the jobs that we're asking the models to do there's still a big gap now do I think in ten years things will be of course things are going to be different but but as it stands now you know we have tried to not focus as much on our own specialty as as we have tried to focus on how can we help the patients that were serving it because if it means that someone can come to the emergency room in a rural part of the country or the world and receive the proper treatment and not have to either wait for a radiologist find a radiologist or potentially be misdiagnosed then you know it sort of changes for me the stakes and makes that maybe a more important goal than to sort of fret and worry about who's gonna regulate who's going to control how am I going to get reimbursed is my job safe but what I tell medical students and this is important because there has been some concern amongst medical students I think that there is no better field to harness some of the transformative technologies in the future than radiology and I'm talking just outside of this kind of work I'm talking about virtual reality I'm talking about the opportunity to hybridize with surgery in ways that we never thought possible we're seeing advances here and I'm certain in other labs across the country where radiology is the centerpiece of some of the most amazing medical tech that's coming out so I would jump into radiology and heartbeat again and knowing everything that I know not about the research

Channel: Matt Lungren MD

Views: 26,488

Keywords: AI, Radiology, artificial intelligence, imaging, machine learning, lose jobs, automation, matthew lungren

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Length: 2min 29sec (149 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 05 2018