Tomography: Artificial Intelligence

(asked on 28th August 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of using artificial intelligence to read PET CT scans.


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Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 10th September 2020

The National Health Service Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory is undertaking a discovery project to look at medical imaging, which will examine the value and benefit of the use of AI in medical imaging.

The potential for the application of AI methodologies to PET/CT imaging has been widely investigated in the research community. From the academic and commercial research performed to date, AI methodologies in PET/CT have been shown to provide benefit in, but not limited to: the improvement of image quality and lowering of CT dose delivered to the patient; lesion and disease detection; tumour segmentation; and in the prediction of disease recurrence.

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