Top 3 technology trends in medical imaging
Posted on 27-January-2020
Top 3 technology trends in medical imaging
medical imaging: The technology - future is known to bring along massive & innovative technology trends that will be embraced extensively. The world of radiology and medical imaging is always changing. While some things already exist and are common finds in the medical imaging field, other fresh technology trends are ‘prime pickings’ to drastically change the sector.
Medical imaging saves millions of lives every year, helping doctors to detect and diagnose a wide range of diseases, from cancer and appendicitis to stroke and heart disease. It’s important to stay on top of the latest advancements and trends in medical imaging.
Here are the top 3 technology trends in medical imaging leading to major future development.
- Advanced Wearables
Being not only a top healthcare trend for upcoming years, but wearable medical devices has revolutionized diagnostic imaging in 2020. They are known to be the advanced wearables. The following are the remarkable ones:
- MRI glove: The MRI gloves can provide clear, constant imagesng joints and tendons & can be worn next to the skin. This newest glove-shaped MRI device has been unified with garment-like detectors, and the resulting images provide a crystal clear map of the anatomy of the hand, aiding in everything starting from surgery to the design of meticulous prosthetics.
- Portable MEG brain scanner: “Worn like a helmet which measures brain activity while people make natural movements such as stretching, moving legs, drinking tea, and even playing thumb-fights ” known as the portable MEG brain scanner. The lightweight MEG wearable scanner brings improved imaging potentials to patients with disorders that cause unprompted body movements.
- Artificial intelligence
AI has the potential to revolutionize the medical imaging industry. With hundreds of AI technology solutions being developed, AI needs to provide life-changing insights into a variety of diseases, injuries, and conditions that may be hard to detect without the supplemental technology.
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- iCAD’s solution: An AI-powered solution for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), which helps radiologists to view each tissue layer independently and thereby detect cancer earlier by 8% reducing the time spent on reading breast scans by 50%.
- Cardiac diagnostics by AI: How AI can improve cardiac MRI diagnostics? A solution to this will be known soon. Siemens and Intel’s AI-enabled instant segmentation technology enables specialists to safely check patients each day with the time saved via the automatic segmentation.
The medical imaging market of AI is estimated to rise from $20.28 billion in 2018 to a projected value of $252.75 billion by 2026.
- 3D imaging & VR
Not only the entertainment industry but the medical industry is also amazed with the 3D imaging &virtual reality world. The advancing technology has blown out a new augmented reality system like EchoPixel True 3D, which have made it possible for radiologists or physicians to take slices of MRI pictures to create a 3D image. Isn’t that outstanding? With these, physicians can examine with 3D glasses, a VR headset, or even print using a 3D printer and special plastic. These would completely replace the 2D MRI & CT scans preferred by physicians currently.
Also, Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles, virtual reality arcades in the market has proved that the medical imaging world is also not going to get enough of VR.
