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by rasmus1610 2 hours ago
As a radiologist I have found Claude and ChatGPT to be absolutely terrible at MRI and I would not trust it one bit. It has its merits if you need to research stuff that is more text based, but radiological images is just something that they cannot interpret good enough (yet)
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lostlogin 2 hours ago
AI makes up for its poor reporting by enhancing the images.

Current Siemens MR software ‘Deep Resolve’ makes up the signal (adding about 50%), then makes up every second pixel, and then, for 3D sequences, makes up every second slice. It’s locking about 59% of the time off each sequences. And it’s really really good. I’m an MR tech.

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rasmus1610 53 minutes ago
but those are two different things. Of course something like Deep Resolve is great, as are modern model based reconstruction algorithms for CTs, but here we are talking about LLMs and their ability to interpret medical images, which has nothing to do with what you said.
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microgpt 1 hour ago
Sorry? You use AI to hallucinate medical images and that's good?
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uecker 1 hour ago
It is not really the same as LLMs. I wouldn't call it AI. And I wouldn't say "makes up". I work in this field and this is certainly based also in part on my research.
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lostlogin 10 minutes ago
‘Makes up’ is inaccurate for sure. But it’s not strictly true to call it acquired data either.

After years of collecting artifacts and errors, I have more and more respect for the tool.

But it’s jarring. I open a sequence, decrease the acquired resolution, add the AI and get a scan that’s quicker and higher resolution.

It’s an amazing time to be an MR tech.

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gavinray 1 hour ago
It's just DLSS/Frame Generation for MRI's.
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pickleRick243 2 hours ago
It's like people who expect ChatGPT to be really good at chess because chess engines with super-human performance have been around for decades, so obviously the latest frontier LLM that took billions to train should find the task trivial.

Actually, I'm curious what ChatGPT 5.5's ELO is- I wouldn't be too surprised if it's 2000+ just from its basic understanding of chess principles from all the content it has digested.

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