Aspiring radiologists should consider specializing in interventional radiology over diagnostic radiology as artificial intelligence (AI) could possibly take on the task of interpreting medical images, according to the co-founder of Singapore-based Parkway Cancer Centre (PCC) on Friday.
“If anyone wants to do radiology, you should not do diagnostic radiology. You must be an interventional radiologist,” Dr. Ang Peng Tiam, medical director and senior consultant of PCC, said during a media launch.
“(This means) that you must be the person who does the angiogram, to block off the vessels, the one who does the biopsy, and not the one who just reads the X-rays.”
“Because that reading in the future will all be done by computer and AI. So this is a whole learning process,” he also said.
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