Why AI in radiology failed

In this opinion piece, Andrea Isoni (AI Technologies; London, UK), author of Machine Learning for the Web, provides his outlook on why applications of AI in radiology have been lacking and his thoughts on how the field will evolve in the future. It was around 2018 when pressing news came that AI would soon be able to replace radiologists (mostly led by the publicized IBM Watson, but not solely). Doctors themselves dropped studying radiology as a specialization in mass. In this case, AI failed. And we may now have an actual shortage of radiologists. Today AI diagnostic accuracy scores are...