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Ct scans aren't really used to look for brain tumors. We use mri for that mostly. Ct is used for screening of stroke, trauma and other things. Source: radiol

Ct scans aren't really used to look for brain tumors. We use mri for that mostly. Ct is used for screening of stroke, trauma and other things. Source: radiologist / me. I work on radiology image segmentation also. And I agree it is solvable with machine learning. But even if software could do a job of a radiologist, it wouldn't replace one any more than your ekg reading program replaced cardiologists.

kevinalexbrown 10y ago
> Ct scans aren't really used to look for brain tumors. I can see how my phrasing was confusing, but I didn't mean to suggest that Ct scans are used to look for brain tumors. My work segmenting brain scans was not tumor-related, just gray/white matter segmentation.
Toenex 10y ago
> But even if software could do a job of a radiologist, it wouldn't replace one any more than your ekg reading program replaced cardiologists. I don't think the radiologist is going anywhere soon but the role is changing. Radiologists are increasingly having to deal with more and more derived information. They need to understand the algorithms being used as well as the biology, anatomy, physiology and disease being investigated. I can see a time when algorithmic specialists become a regular part of their multidisciplinary team.