Its decision drew concern from the radiology community, which has fought to increase awareness around this alternative to colonoscopy. 

Researchers with NYC Health + Hospitals detailed their large-scale quality improvement project in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The San Mateo, California-based startup said the money will help it tackle more diseases and add further functions to the company's platform. 

Experts see great promise for improving population health outcomes with such opportunistic screening via low-dose CT, according to a study published in Radiology. 

"We believe that this is a pretty profound growth opportunity across the space," CEO Peter Arduini told investors during a Q2 earnings call. 

The physician had assigned the standard, four-phase protocol for liver imaging, but the radiographer instead performed a single, portal-venous phase only.

Breast radiologists are known to have higher rates of burnout in comparison to many of their peers, but the beginning of the pandemic brought this group something not often encountered within the specialty—downtime. 

"This system is bringing with it a greater humanization of AI and therefore a more realistic representation of what we do as radiologists,” one member of the specialty said.