Artificial intelligence and radiomics in pulmonary nodule management: current status and future applications

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been present in some guise within the field of radiology for over 50 years. The first studies investigating computer-aided diagnosis in thoracic radiology date back to the 1960s, and in the subsequent years, the main application of these techniques has been the detection and classification of pulmonary nodules. In addition, there have been other less intensely researched applications, such as the diagnosis of...