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Review
. 2019 Nov 28;2(1):20190031.
doi: 10.1259/bjro.20190031. eCollection 2020.

The role of artificial intelligence in medical imaging research

Xiaoli Tang  1
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Review

The role of artificial intelligence in medical imaging research

Xiaoli Tang. BJR Open. .

Abstract

Without doubt, artificial intelligence (AI) is the most discussed topic today in medical imaging research, both in diagnostic and therapeutic. For diagnostic imaging alone, the number of publications on AI has increased from about 100-150 per year in 2007-2008 to 1000-1100 per year in 2017-2018. Researchers have applied AI to automatically recognizing complex patterns in imaging data and providing quantitative assessments of radiographic characteristics. In radiation oncology, AI has been applied on different image modalities that are used at different stages of the treatment. i.e. tumor delineation and treatment assessment. Radiomics, the extraction of a large number of image features from radiation images with a high-throughput approach, is one of the most popular research topics today in medical imaging research. AI is the essential boosting power of processing massive number of medical images and therefore uncovers disease characteristics that fail to be appreciated by the naked eyes. The objectives of this paper are to review the history of AI in medical imaging research, the current role, the challenges need to be resolved before AI can be adopted widely in the clinic, and the potential future.

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