Peering into the Future Through the Looking Glass of Artificial Intelligence

178 Pages·2016·8.74 MB·English

by  Eliot Siegel

Eliot Siegel, MD, FSIIM, FACR
Professor of Radiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Chief Imaging Services, VA Maryland Healthcare System
Dwyer AI Session Outline
• Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, PhD
– Chief Scientist, Medical Sieve
Radiology Grand Challenge
– IBM Almaden Research Center

• Panel Discussion
– Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, MBA, Chief
Innovation Officer, University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center, Executive
Vice President, UPMC Enterprises;

– Khan M. Siddiqui, MD, Co-Founder,
Chief Technical Officer, higi, Co-
Director, Center for Biomedical &
Imaging Informatics, Visiting
Associate Professor Radiology, Johns
Hopkins University
Disclaimer

– ACR – Fuji – Philips
– AGFA – Galileo – RADLogics
– Amalga – Herman Miller – Radsite
– Anatomic Travelogue – IBM – Redrick/Evolve
– Anthro – Intel – RSNA
– Applied Radiology – Kodak – Siemens
– ATL – NIBIB – SIIM
– Barco – NIST – Sonare
– Bracco – NLM – Steelcase
– Brightfield – NCI – TeraRecon
– Carestream – Life images – Topoderm
– Cydar – McCoy – Toshiba
– Dejarnette – McKesson – Virtual Radiology
– Dell – Medrad – Vital Images
– Diagnostic Imaging – Medscape – Xybix
– Digital Art Forms – Merge – YYESIT
– Dynamic Imaging – Microsoft – Zebra
– Eizo – Montage
– Fovia – GE
Samuel J. Dwyer, III, PhD,
FSIIM (1932–2008)
• On May 4, 2002 Sam became the ninth SCAR
member to be inducted into the SCAR College of
Fellows.
• Dr. Dwyer received his PhD in Electrical
Engineering at the University of Texas-Austin
specializing in systems and signal processing
• Dr. Dwyer at the time of his retirement was a
Professor of Radiology at the University of
Virginia Health Sciences System
Steve Horii, M.D.
• I knew him to be always ready with a smile or
infectious laugh and with a perpetual gleam in
his eye that spoke of his friendly manner
• There are some who would claim the title of
“PACS Man”, but it is Sam Dwyer who led the
revolution in PACS
• Sam Dwyer was a major pioneer who brought
many of the important advances in technology to
us and helped move concepts from the realm of
engineering to that of healthcare
• I will miss Sam very much, but the strong
memory of him is never further than the PACS
workstation I use every day
R. Gilbert Jost, MD
Past President RSNA and RISC
• If one were to identify a “father of PACS”,
unquestionably it would be Sam Dwyer…
• He is truly a pioneer who has changed the
specialty of radiology for the better in
innumerable ways
Continued Relationship with
Sam
• Sam was very reassuring when we became the
world’s first filmless hospital that our problems
would not be insurmountable and that the time was
right to go filmless
• As this “kid” right out of residency aspiring to the first
filmless hospital, I think I amused Sam
• In subsequent years we got together frequently at
RSNA and he often scribbled messages and
drawings on napkins and handed them to me
• Kept in contact by phone and e-mails and always
enjoyed talking with him
• Makes me wonder what Sam would have thought
about “Artificial Intelligence” and its potential in
diagnostic imaging
Where Are We in 2016 in AI in
Diagnostic Imaging?
• Sam would be surprised that CAD hasn’t
made more progress in diagnostic imaging
• 10’s of thousands of machine learning
algorithms but almost no connection
between the research and clinical
application of these
• Relatively small incremental improvements
in fairly narrowly defined image analysis
algorithms, e.g. mammography CAD, lung
nodule detection, vascular stenosis analysis
Where Are We in 2016?
• Is there a generalized learning
algorithm/program for imaging that could
create a jumpstart to a major advance in
diagnostic imaging?
• Amazing advances in ML and AI in many
domains high publicity
• Lots of companies lately are claiming to
have made that jump
• How much is reality and how much is
hype?
Dedication: to João Louro