AI is becoming a powerful tool in every industry and its impact in healthcare has become telling. In wake of the pandemic, AI is also being used heavily in the fight against COVID-19. Despite many worries and concerns that people tend to have with AI, combining it with biomedical engineering has developed some pretty powerful tools. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning and AI concerned with mimicking the function of the human brain....
The average waiting time for an MRI scan is 21 days, according to the latest Diagnostic Imaging Dataset published by NHS England. This compares to same day for X-Rays, Fluoroscopy and Medical Photography. Yet even that 21 day figure, extracted by NHS Digital from local Radiology Information Systems, masks the true extent of the problem. It’s skewed by the number of in-patients who have their test done far quicker. A third (33%) of the two million out-patients referred...
