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Interesting, thanks for getting back :)

I worked for a couple of years in medical imaging (on a RIS) and our customers were very Radiologist focussed for everything except head scans (where the neurologists also read the scans).

I would hope to see AI-based assist technology hitting the market in the next 3-5 years for X-Ray/CT. Something in the form of the different rendering modes that you can use in a viewer. It's hard to tell though because the whole field is driven by hardware not software. Software seems to be an afterthought. The software seems more focussed on lock-in (integration, meh).

I had a vision for a future where the doctor in a hospital could push an image out to the "cloud" of teleworking radiologists, with the image being read in real time. It would be like load-balancing all of the work over the entire world. Technically it's tractable but the combination of privacy issues, the aforementioned hardware-driven market and the state of Hospital IT is what makes it impossible. Well that and the scaling problem (you need a critical mass of top-quality teleradiologists on your side to do it).