Digital chest radiology.

With an increasing number of storage phosphor computed radiography units being installed worldwide, the evaluation of digital chest radiology is no longer being confined to experimental determinations of adequate imaging variables. There has been a substantial increase in the number of clinically based studies that have compared computed radiography with conventional film radiography. The applications of computed radiography are widening and further developments in dual-energy imaging and scanning equalization radiography have become possible through the use of phosphor storage computed radiography. Computer-assisted diagnosis applied to chest radiography may shortly be revolutionized by artificial intelligence, which is capable of assimilating both radiographic and clinical data.