Re: Sigh
The worst bit is when they train their algorithms on the imaging presentation data instead of the raw data. Every manufacturer applies their secret sauce to the raw data before it's shown to a physician. Trying to highlight important structures while keeping out the noise. This means an algorithm trained on one manufacturer will only work for that manufacturer AND only at that time. As the manufacturers adjust these post processing things all the time.
You can get the raw data from the machines but that generally requires extra setup steps and those images are generally not stored in PACS as they're so much larger.
Whenever I see a study or press release about some magical new AI/ML algorithm and they say they trained on the presentation images I basically ignore it as the algorithm is useless in the real world.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
