This talk will discuss the state of deep learning from a uniquely clinical perspective and offer the audience member an opportunity to understand the challenges facing the clinical medical imaging community and outline opportunities for the Python community to engage with clinicians. It will examine the disconnect between what has been promised versus what’s been delivered between radiology and artificial intelligence. A brief review of the most exciting and recent research and methodologies as applied to medical imaging will be performed. We will discuss how machine learning could be applied to the full spectrum of radiology workflow beyond simply computer assisted detection and characterization. There will be a broadly applicable discussion of the Top 5 problems and mitigations necessary for individuals and organizations bringing their A.I. solutions to a clinical setting. Finally, there will be a summary of datasets and Python resources that will assist interested developers in contributing to the growing medical imaging A.I. community. This material has not been presented previously elsewhere.
Jaron Chong is an assistant professor and staff radiologist physician with the Department of Radiology, at McGill University. He is a practicing medical specialist in CT, MRI, and Ultrasound abdominal imaging with research interests in the appropriate utilization of medical resources, natural language processing, and medical applications of artificial intelligence, In his spare time, he is still trying (slowly) to learn vim, getting TensorFlow to compile, and of course hacking scripts in Python.