MRI images (magnetic resonance imaging) can be generated in just a few minutes using Facebook's artificial intelligence (AI). In collaboration with NYU Langone Health and Facebook's AI research team, the project called FastMRI was born.
Physicians and other medical experts had been using MRI since it was developed in 1970. This technology has been useful for garnering vital insights into the patients' organs.
NYU Langone and Facebook AI team for Fast MRI breakthrough. NYU Radiology Chair Dr. Michael Recht and Facebook AI's Nafissa Yakubova in Techstination interview. https://t.co/pzY5Bmj29O pic.twitter.com/L80xOun42s — Fred Fishkin (@ffishkin) August 18, 2020
Six radiologists, recruited by Facebook, examined two sets of MRI sequences of a patient's knee. The first one was created by traditional MRI, while the second image was generated using fastMRI. Five out of the six radiologists were unable to identify which one was developed using Facebook's AI.
Nafissa Yakubova, a researcher at Facebook AI, said that to avoid overfitting the MRI images, they need to begin with a large data set. The researcher also added that they generated thousands of MRI cases from the knee. MRI brain scans were also included, which contained as many as 800 still images in each of the scans used to improve the fastMRI model.
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Written by: Giuliano de Leon.
