We are probably still quite some way off from seeing Artificial Intelligence (AI) replace doctors, but there are already lots of proven use-cases where AI is being used to augment the medical profession. One proven area is in medical imaging where AI and computer vision is helping with medical scan and imaging analysis to help support radiologists and other clinicians.
One startup operating in this space is AIdoc Medical. The company has built what co-founder and CEO Elad Walach describes as an AI that can spot visual abnormalities in medical scans. The technology is designed to fit into a radiologist’s existing workflow to help make their job more efficient.
“Over the past few years, the amount of CT and MRI exams have increased dramatically, while the amount of radiologists have remained basically the same. This has led to medical image interpretation becoming a severe bottleneck in healthcare today,” he tells me. “We support the radiologists in this process. They are working extremely hard to handle the increasing demands, but there’s a limit to how much you can do with tools that are completely manual”.
The Israeli startup’s solution is an AI system that can look at an anatomical area and detect high-level visual abnormalities, based on what the radiologist would like to…