Dear AuntMinnie Member,
The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and medical imaging was the focus of this week's Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging (C-MIMI), which just concluded on the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The event was sponsored by the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, and Senior Editor Erik L. Ridley was on hand to report on the proceedings for our Artificial Intelligence Community.
Among the presentations was a talk by an official from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who clarified the agency's approach to the regulation of AI algorithms for medical use. The FDA recently cleared a breast imaging computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) application that used AI technology as a class II device. This means that future applications will be able to use the 510(k) process rather than the more rigorous premarket approval (PMA) path. Learn more about what this means by clicking here.
In other news from C-MIMI, Google's senior healthcare leader, Dr. Gregory Moore, PhD, describes what the search engine giant is doing in the realm of AI for medical imaging. While the company has kept a low profile in this sector, its work could end up making a big impact. Read more by clicking here.
Finally, the U.S. National Institutes of Health this week released to the public a massive database of more than 100,000 x-rays that can be used in the development of artificial intelligence algorithms. Get the rest of the story by clicking here.
These articles and more are available in our Artificial Intelligence Community, at ai.auntminnie.com.
PET shows revival of comatose patient
Meanwhile, a group in France used PET along with electroencephalography (EEG) to monitor a procedure that helped restore consciousness in a man who had been in a coma for 15 years. The researchers used a pacemaker-like device to stimulate the vagus nerve of the patient, and they measured changes in brain activity with PET and EEG. Find the story by clicking here.
Best Radiology Image voting
Finally, things are heating up in the Best Radiology Image competition in the Minnies, our annual event recognizing excellence in radiology. More than 1,100 votes have been cast on our Facebook page for the competing images -- have you voted yet? All you have to do is click "like" on the image you think should win. Get started by clicking here.
