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A survey on the future of radiology among radiologists, medical students and surgeons: Students and surgeons tend to be more skeptical about artificial intelligence and radiologists may fear that other disciplines take over.

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BORIS DOI
10.7892/boris.135291
Date of Publication
December 2019
Publication Type
Article
Division/Institute

Universitätsinstitut ...

Institut für Anatomie...

Author
van Hoek, Jasper
Institut für Anatomie
Huber, Adrian Thomas
Universitätsinstitut für Diagnostische, Interventionelle und Pädiatrische Radiologie
Leichtle, Alexander
Härmä, Kirsi Hannele
Universitätsinstitut für Diagnostische, Interventionelle und Pädiatrische Radiologie
Hilt, Daniella
von Tengg-Kobligk, Hendrikorcid-logo
Universitätsinstitut für Diagnostische, Interventionelle und Pädiatrische Radiologie
Heverhagen, Johannesorcid-logo
Universitätsinstitut für Diagnostische, Interventionelle und Pädiatrische Radiologie
Pöllinger, Alexander
Universitätsinstitut für Diagnostische, Interventionelle und Pädiatrische Radiologie
Subject(s)

600 - Technology::610...

Series
European journal of radiology
ISSN or ISBN (if monograph)
1872-7727
Publisher
Elsevier
Language
English
Publisher DOI
10.1016/j.ejrad.2019.108742
PubMed ID
31734640
Uncontrolled Keywords

Medical – surveys - q...

Description
PURPOSE

To evaluate the opinion and assessment of radiologists, surgeons and medical students on a number of important topics regarding the future of radiology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), turf battles, teleradiology and 3D-printing.

METHOD

An online questionnaire was created using the SurveyMonkey platform targeting radiologists, students and surgeons throughout the German speaking part of Switzerland. A total of 170 people participated in the survey (59 radiologists, 56 surgeons and 55 students). Statistical analysis was carried out using the Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn's multiple comparison post-hoc tests.

RESULTS

While the majority of participants agreed that AI should be included as a support system in radiology (Likert scale 0-10: Median value 8), surgeons were less supportive than radiologists (p = 0.001). Students saw a potential threat of AI as more likely than radiologists did (p = 0.041). When asked whether they were concerned about "turf losses" from radiology to other disciplines, radiologists were much more likely to agree than students (p < 0.001). Of the students that do not intend to specialize in radiology, 26 % stated that AI was one of the reasons. Surgeons advocate the use of teleradiology.

CONCLUSIONS

With regard to AI, radiologists expect their workflow to become more efficient and tend to support the use of AI, whereas medical students and surgeons tend to be more skeptical towards this technology. Medical students see AI as a potential threat to diagnostic radiologists, while radiologists themselves are rather afraid of turf losses.
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https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/183468
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