Medical Imaging AI Raises New Privacy Risks: What Patients Should Know
Medical Imaging AI Opens a Pandora’s Box of Privacy Risks: What Patients Should Know Introduction Artificial intelligence is transforming medical imaging—helping radiologists spot tumors, fractures, and abnormalities faster than ever. But the same technology that analyzes scans also has an unintended, unsettling ability: it can sometimes reconstruct a patient’s face or other identifiable features from anonymized medical images. Recent research presented at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting has brought this emerging privacy risk into sharp focus, raising questions about whether current data protection rules are enough. ...