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Comment by kspacewalk2
Radiologists most definitely are trying. Our institute's entire medical imaging research arm is driven by several very motivated practicing radiologists. You just misunderstand what it is that they do, fundamentally. Diddling with some pics and publishing papers is just not in the same league as making medical diagnoses. A lot is riding on their understanding every little artifact of the algorithm/approach that gives them a modified image to interpret. They will never accept black-box automagic, and they will always evaluate the benefits of novel algorithms together with the drawbacks of having to get used to their quirks and opaque artifacts, possibly with outcomes impacted and/or lives lost in the process. Where the risk/benefit analysis is clear, they do adopt plenty of common-sense automation tools for a very simple reason - they get paid per scan read, so their time is (lots of) money, to them.