Bundling isn’t just for your streaming plans anymore. In radiology, new artificial intelligence tools are getting cleared by the Food and Drug Administration to check for multiple findings at once — sometimes more than a dozen in one go.
On Wednesday, radiology AI company Aidoc announced the FDA has cleared a tool that can triage 14 critical findings in a single abdominal CT scan: liver injury, spleen injury, bowel obstruction, appendicitis, and more.
Though the FDA has approved hundreds of AI-based medical devices in radiology, health systems can struggle to deploy them because each tool typically measures or detects just one thing. If a patient gets a chest X-ray in an emergency room, separate algorithms check for collapsed lungs, pneumonia, and rib fracture. A brain scan gets analyzed by multiple tools for hemorrhage, signs of ischemic stroke, and aneurysm. Making them all work together is a massive clinical and technical challenge.
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