AI in Medical Imaging: What You Need to Know About Privacy Risks
AI in Medical Imaging: What You Need to Know About Privacy Risks Medical imaging has always involved sensitive data — X-rays, CT scans, MRIs contain not just anatomical details but often personal identifiers. Now that artificial intelligence is being used to read, analyze, and even generate images, a new layer of privacy concern has emerged. A recent article from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) framed it bluntly: AI in medical imaging “opens a Pandora’s box of privacy-related risks.” For patients who undergo scans, that warning is worth understanding. ...