AI, Radiology and Ethics: A Podcast Series

The most recent generation of artificial intelligence technologies is introducing a host of ethical problems to radiology practice and health care delivery. Join Dr. John Banja, a medical ethicist at Emory University’s Center for Ethics, and his guests discuss the ethical challenges that artificial intelligence presents. This podcast is made possible by grants from the Advanced Radiology Services Foundation and the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. For articles and research, please visit https://bit.ly/3vtFtI2 Questions? Email jbanja@emory.edu

Discussing the Ethics of AI and Medical Error in Radiology

This interview is reproduced with the kind permission of Dr. Maxwell Cooper, host of the DaVinci Hour podcasts.  Dr. Cooper interviews John Banja on various topics related to the ethical dimension of AI in radiology and on medical error in radiology.  Please visit Dr. Cooper’s DaVinci Hour podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-davinci-hour/id1554398921.

10-31
01:04:33

Patients, Their Data, and Their Privacy

This interview focuses on a variety of ethical vulnerabilities that big data in AI presents.  Dr. Amy Kotsenas offers recommendations for better protecting data privacy in the age of AI.  See her lead author article on “Rethinking patient consent in the era of artificial intelligence and big data” at https://www.jacr.org/article/S1546-1440(20)30965-0/fulltext.

10-26
32:37

The Complexity of Concussion and Growing a Program in AI

Dr. Yvonne Lui from NYU discusses her radiology research on brain injuries and on growing a clinical and research program in artificial intelligence.

10-25
39:46

The Business of AI in Radiology

Dr. Hari Trivedi discusses a range of issues on the economics of improving and importing AI technology along with his envisioning the near future of AI business models in radiology.  See his article in the Journal of the American College of Radiology at https://www.jacr.org/article/S1546-1440(22)00113-2/fulltext

09-20
47:01

Health Disparities Revisited: Hopes and Challenges in Medicine and Radiology Practice

This podcast features Drs. Judy Gichoya and Leo Celi discussing how various biases in artificial intelligence models can affect radiology work.  They also discuss certain strategies that might mitigate them.

05-16
40:59

On Reducing Error in Clinical Care with Artificial Intelligence

In this podcast, Pelu Tran discusses how artificial intelligence can improve workflow and reduce various kinds of errors that occur in diagnosis and treatment planning.

05-12
37:23

AI in Health Disparities, Vendor-Hospital Agreements, and Refugee Resettlement

In this podcast, Dr. Muhammed Idris talks about his work in using AI for improving self-management health-related behaviors as well as using AI for resettling refugees.

04-19
37:13

PREVIEW of Episode 10: On Pigeons, Residency Training, and the Development of Expertise.

A short snippet from Episode 10: On Pigeons, Residency Training, and the Development of Expertise for you to sample.

04-06
02:38

Avoiding Shortcut Solutions in Machine Learning Models

In this podcast Joshua Robinson discusses his work at MIT and his recent, lead author paper on how contrastive learning might lead to more reliable predictions in AI. Josh’s paper is at the NeurIPS proceedings website: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/hash/27934a1f19d678a1377c257b9a780e80-Abstract.html.

03-14
35:43

On Pigeons, Residency Training, and the Development of Expertise.

In this podcast, Dr. Elizabeth Krupinski at Emory University discusses some similarities between pigeon visual processing and humans as well as the development of expert performance in radiology.

11-15
41:37

On AI and Health Disparities with Dr. Bibb Allen

Can AI relieve some of the problems involving the social determinants of health? This podcast discusses these and other aspects of health disparities in the technological age.

11-08
32:54

It's Complicated: Reimbursing Radiology Services in the Age of AI

Melissa Chen, MD, from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discusses the complexities surrounding reimbursement for AI in radiology.

08-17
33:25

Preparing the Radiology Department or Clinic for the Future of AI

Dr. Charles Kahn, Professor and Vice Chair of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and editor of Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, discusses strategies for preparing the radiology department or clinic for the future of artificial intelligence.

07-19
27:51

AI in Radiology: The Role of Professional Organizations in Standards Development, Conflicts of Interest, and Bringing Radiology to the World

Dr. Geraldine McGinty and Ms. Michelle Yi discuss the roles of professional organizations in providing high-quality membership services and in maintaining the quality and distribution of radiology services throughout the world.

06-15
31:31

Implementing AI in Health Care Delivery: Perspectives from Executive Clinical Leadership

This podcast examines a number of issues related to the implementation of AI in our hospitals and clinics, especially in terms of how health care leaders and their executive committees might be responding to the development and marketing of these models.

05-27
35:13

How Will Artificial Intelligence Affect the Medical Malpractice Experience in Radiology?

Radiologists Michael Bruno and Richard Duszak discuss the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the medical malpractice landscape of radiology with medical ethicist John Banja.

02-22
35:24

Bias, Fairness and Generalizability

Dr. Leo Celi discusses various problems involving bias, fairness and generalizability that continue to affect the adoption of artificial intelligence models in hospitals and clinics.  Dr. Celi also makes a number of recommendations for improving relationships between health care organizations and the private sector as AI research moves forward. Articles that Dr. Celi mentions in the podcast are: Futoma J, Simons M, Panch T, Doshi-Velez F, Celi L.  The myth of generalizability in clinical research and machine learning in health care.  Lancet Digital Health 2020; 2:e489-92.  At:  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30186-2/fulltext. Stuppe A, Singerman D, Celi L.  The reproducibility crisis in the age of digital medicine.  NPJ Digital Medicine January 29, 2019.  At https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-019-0079-z. Vyas D, Eisenstein L, Jones D.  Hidden in plain sight—reconsidering the use of race correction in clinical algorithms.  The New England Journal of Medicine August 27, 2020; 383(9):874-882.  At: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2004740.

11-18
16:07

Bias: Confronting the Problem

Drs. Carolyn Meltzer and Adam Alessio comment on the phenomenon of bias in artificial intelligence models.  Their conversation focuses on the inevitability of bias, the difficulties that are confronted in eliminating it, and the state of the art in mitigation techniques.

10-14
22:31

Sharing and Selling Images

Dr. Nabile Safdar, Vice Chair of Imaging Informatics at the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, comments on the phenomenon of sharing and selling images in radiology. The discussion focuses on ethical and regulatory expectations, securing authorization from data subjects, and important considerations that radiology practices should contemplate when they are invited to participate in sharing or selling arrangements. https://www.jacr.org/article/S1546-1440(20)30843-7/pdf

09-07
14:04

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