Emerging Value-Based Radiology in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

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Seong K. Mun, PhD
Arlington Innovation Center: Health Research, Virginia Tech, Washington DC Region
Shih-Chung B. Lo, PhD
Arlington Innovation Center: Health Research, Virginia Tech, Washington DC Region
Kenneth Wong, PhD
Arlington Innovation Center: Health Research, Virginia Tech, Washington DC Region
Dow-Mu Koh, MD
Professor in Functional Cancer Imaging, Consultant Radiologist in Functional Imaging the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Fred Prior, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Professor of Radiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Abstract

Radiology has a long history of adopting state-of-the-art digital technology to provide better diagnostic services and facilitate advances in image-based therapeutics throughout the healthcare system. The radiology community has been developing diagnostic artificial intelligence (AI) tools over the past 20 years, long before AI became fashionable in the public press. Currently, there are approximately four hundred Food and Drug Administration approved imaging AI products. However, the clinical adoption of these products in radiology has been relatively dismal, indicating that the current technology-push model needs to evolve into the demand-pull model. We will review the current state of AI use in radiology from the perspective of clinical adoption and explore the ways in which AI products will become an ensemble of critically important tools to help radiology transition from volume-based service to value-based healthcare. This transition will create new demands for AI technologies. We contrast the current “technology-push” model with a “demand-pull” model that will aligns technology with user priorities.


We summarize the lessons learned from AI experience over the past twenty years, mainly working with computer-aided detection for breast cancers and lung cancers. The radiology community calls for AI tools that can do more than detection with increasing attention toward higher workflow efficiency and higher productivity of radiologists. Major radiological societies of North America and Europe promulgated the emerging concept of value-based radiology service, an integral part of overall value-based healthcare. The transition to value-based radiology will happen and that higher value will come from the effective use of AI throughout the radiology workflow.


The value-based radiology will need to work with a full range of machine learning tools, including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, as well as natural language processing and large language models (e.g., chatbots). The engineering community is rapidly developing many concepts and sophisticated software tools for data orchestration, AI orchestration, and automation orchestration. Current radiology operation has been supported by PACS, a monolithic IT infrastructure of past generations. This system will need to migrate to an intelligence management system to support the new workflow needed for high value radiology. 

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MUN, Seong K. et al. Emerging Value-Based Radiology in the Era of Artificial Intelligence. Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 11, n. 5, may 2023. ISSN 2375-1924. Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/3915>. Date accessed: 26 apr. 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i5.3915.
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