ESNR New Year editorial

Excerpt

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a buzz word used and misused not only by the popular press but also in neuroradiology. You may find it hard to believe but not every software tool you use today that does some fancy stuff with your images is AI: in fact, far from it! Most of these tools are actually just “plain software.” For example, do you have software that automatically numbers your spinal levels, aligns your MR-scans to the patient’s anatomy, or a tool that calculates brain volumes? If so, you might simply be using clever software programmed by clever people with many pre-programmed steps dictating how to perform specific actions, rather than utilizing AI. …