How AI Will Make MRI MUCH More Valuable
In the not-too-distant future, AI will change medicine and make radiologists extinct. In fact, several new research studies show that this AI imaging revolution is already quietly happening. Let’s dig in. Current MRI Imaging is Held Back By Having a Human in the Equation Today’s MRI begins with a patient being placed inside a superconducting magnetic ring which aligns all other protons in their tissue. All sorts of data are collected when the tissues are exposed to radiofrequency energy, causing all of the aligned protons to spin out of equilibrium. When the radiofrequency pulses are turned off, energy is emitted which is picked up by sensors. All of the information in that energy is then used to create a picture that makes sense to a human. It’s that last part of making pretty pictures that have held this technology back and that AI will now release into its full potential. Let’s Think about MRI in Terms of our Human Eyes Credit: Wikipedia Commons Above is a diagram ...