How AI is impacting neuroradiology in Arkansas [Video]

AI can be helpful in many ways; in this case, it’s making a positive change in the radiology department at Baptist Health.

“It’s like another second set of eyes,” Baptist Health North Little Rock’s Vice President of Operations Jessica Rivera said.

That’s how Rivera described the hospital’s new computer software improving neuroradiology.

“It helps the radiologist determine early detection of ms, early detection of something called Aria, which is micro bleeding in the brain,” Rivera said. “Then the other thing that it does, which is very impressive, is it’ll take old MRIs and compare them to new ones so that they can early detect if there’s any progression of a disease process within MS.”

Besides helping with early detection, Rivera said it’s quicker for their radiologist to read the brain images, making a more …