Clara is also a power source of Nuance’s AI Marketplace solution, which provides direct access to more than 70 percent of radiologists across 5,800 connected healthcare facilities. In pairing its solution with ACR AI-LAB, Nuance will allow its users to develop and scale up AI solutions for their practices. AI Marketplace users who employ PowerScribe One can also access the largest storefront of AI imaging algorithms and integrate them directly into their existing reporting workflows to form a collective feedback channel.

ACR AI-LAB leverages existing ACR assets including DART (Data archive & research toolkit) and TRIAD (Transfer of Images and Data), which connects thousands of radiological practices for the ACR accreditation and registry programs and enables ACR to deliver AI computational solutions to institutions interested in developing AI algorithms on premise. Such assets are predicted by Allen to play a large role in the success of the platform.

“Data scientists can become engaged by providing "base" algorithms that can be used, trained and modified by radiologists at each site,” he said. “Eventually, we anticipate that multiple institutions and AI developers will begin working together using transfer learning to develop algorithms that can be broadly generalized to many clinical practices. By providing tools to aggregate and annotate cases, run and evaluate AI algorithms and collaborate with developers and other institutions on training AI models, we enable radiology professionals from all backgrounds to become involved.”

Demonstrations of the initial version of ACR AI-LAB will take place from May 18-22 at the 2019 ACR Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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