STAT+: FDA gives generative AI in radiology two breakthrough designation nods

The Food and Drug Administration has granted breakthrough designation to two devices that use generative AI to interpret chest X-rays and draft the radiology reports typically written by human radiologists. Machine learning systems have long analyzed images like X-rays and CT scans. But more recently, large vision language models have ushered in a new capability. Instead of highlighting a spot for a radiologist to review and write up, generative AI can process the entire image and draft many of ...