2023-12-04.md

2023-12-04

Agenda

• RSNA 2023

  • Top Observations
    • HOPPR
      • https://www.hoppr.ai/
      • Startup company
      • Foundation Model for Medical Imaging
      • Partnerships with Radnet and AWS
      • Demo at RSNA - trained on 250,000 Xrays and Mammograms + Reports
      • Integrated OpenAI's whisper - multi-lingual
      • Demoed with OHIF! - Power of opensource!
    • Cloud is here!
      • Questions are not IF but HOW to get to the cloud
    • Rad Partners and AWS
      • RPX - AI Orchestration engine ported from GCP to AWS
      • https://www.radpartners.com/2023/11/radiology-partners-launches-ai-integration-platform-with-aws-healthimaging/
    • LLM Application (dont know vendor)
      • Once radiologist did their report, would compare it against a LLM generated report? If any discrepencies, would send back to worklist for a second read
    • Sirona -
      • Saw demo where they opened lumbar spine MRI
        • Verterbral bodies were auto labeled by ai algorithm (S1..)
        • Report authoring tool was aware of these segmented vertebral bodies
        • Linkage between report and viewer on findings
    • United Imaging - huge booth
      • Chinese medical imaging device company
      • MR, CT, US, 5 Tesla MRI
      • https://usa.united-imaging.com/
    • Seemed to be well attended?
    • Seemed like there were fewer AI startup companies (2/3 the size of previous years?)

• AI Showcase

  • Went really well
  • Tried to raise the bar every year

• SIIM 2024 Call for abstracts due Dec 15

  • https://siim.org/learning-events/events/annual-meeting/call-for-research-abstracts/