The shortage of imaging specialists is one of the best-documented bottlenecks: scans are taken, but reading them takes days, sometimes weeks.
Algorithms applied to chest radiography are the most clinically validated. Used for triage, they make it possible to rank which examinations a specialist should read first.
Three methodological precautions
- Check the model was trained on comparable populations
- Keep human validation on every treatment decision
- Document false negatives, which carry the heaviest consequences in screening
Practitioners converge on the same point: the tool shortens triage time, it replaces neither the specialist nor the clinical examination.