This Surprising Healthcare AI Trend is Making Doctors Uneasy
When once-promising open source AI libraries reveal dangerous flaws, medical teams struggle with what comes next. Learn why industry leaders argue tighter regulation may be the only path forward. The flexibility of DICOM image viewer built on open source libraries allowed developers to rapidly deploy AI screening tools during the pandemic. However, as hospitals relied more heavily on these systems, few anticipated what would come next. Open Source AI: A Brief History AI has advanced rapidly thanks to open source code. As the table below shows, some of the most popular libraries used by healthcare systems are open source: Library Users Open Source TensorFlow Leading AI teams globally Yes PyTorch Meta, NVIDIA, AWS, Microsoft Yes OpenCV Healthcare imaging tools Yes Open source libraries accelerated AI capabilities, but lacked oversight. ...