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AI in nuclear medicine

AI Andy Scarsbrook artificial intelligence NM nuclear medicine Russell Frood Sarah Billingsley

Artificial intelligence (AI) is defined as the ability of a computer system to carry out tasks normally requiring human intelligence. Due to technical improvements in the power of graphical processing units, development of useful AI-derived tools is now a feasible goal. There has been a resultant explosion in research assessing AI methods in medical imaging.

While still at an early phase of development there has been intense media attention, leading initially to unfounded claims that AI would replace imaging specialists. There are a number of areas in which AI could augment imaging workflow tasks, ranging from departmental planning, scan protocoling, image processing, imaging analysis and disease prediction modelling.

This article will briefly discuss a range of possible clinical applications of AI in nuclear medicine and highlight a few current and future challenges.

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