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by 99052882514569 2379 days ago
>It could start erasing a ton of subtle abnormalities and this would not be possible to check for since the original scan will be lower quality.

Radiologists are notoriously conservative for that very reason. Dreamy-eyed image processing and computer vision researchers have been trying to get radiologists to abandon some of their caution for many decades. All in vain. "Hard pass", they say most of the time. The dream usually doesn't get as far as their malpractice insurers, but it certainly dies there if it makes it that far.