NIH, radiology societies map path for AI research in medical imaging

Editor's Note

A new report from the National Institutes of Health, Radiological Society of North America, American College of Radiology, and The Academy, provides a roadmap for translational research on artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging.

The report summarizes key priorities:

• creating structured AI use cases that define and highlight clinical challenges potentially solvable by AI
• establishing methods to encourage data sharing for training and testing AI
• establishing tools to validate and monitor performance of AI algorithms to facilitate regulatory approval
• developing standards and common data elements for seamless integration of AI tools into clinical workflows.

This report and a companion report summarize conclusions from an August 2018 workshop.