March 5, 2019 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) is one of seven professional societies behind a new consensus document on the ethics of using artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology. The authors are taking comments on the draft guidance through April 15, 2019, and a finalized document will be produced within the following six months.

The ACR was joined by the following societies in drafting the guidance document:

European Society of Radiology (ESR);

Radiological Society of North America (RSNA);

Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM);

European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (ESMII);

Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR); and

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)

The document explores ethical considerations for artificial intelligence from several angles, including data use, algorithms and trained models, and actual practice. The writing team reviewed current literature from the fields of computer science and medicine, as well as historical ethical scholarship and material related to the ethics of future scenarios. The document was produced through the combined efforts of philosophers, radiologists, imaging informaticists, medical physicists, patient advocates, and attorneys with experience with radiology in the U.S. the European Union.

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Reference: JEFF ZAGOUDIS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR in the ITN.