‘Akin to a spell check’: Coroner suggests radiologists use AI to review images after missed cancer diagnosis
'Obvious' signs of gastric adenocarcinoma were missed by two radiologists looking for recurrence of a patient's bladder cancer, the SA Coroner found.
The SA Coroner has recommended that AI be used to support imaging reviews after radiologists failed to detect signs of gastric adenocarcinoma when looking for recurrence of a patient’s bladder cancer.
Claus Burg, 70, died in September 2019, approximately 10 months after being diagnosed with stage IV incurable gastric adenocarcinoma.
He had been successfully treated for transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder a decade earlier and had undergone regular monitoring — including chest, abdomen and pelvic CT scans — in the decade since.
However, “observable” and “obvious” signs of cancer were missed by two different radiologists on scans in February 2017 and February 2018, found SA State Coroner David Whittle.
