Santos Josilene C, Wong Jeannie Hsiu Ding, Pallath Vinod, Ng Kwan Hoong
Department of Nuclear Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Phys Eng Sci Med. 2021 Sep;44(3):833-841. doi: 10.1007/s13246-021-01036-9. Epub 2021 Jul 20.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an innovative tool with the potential to impact medical physicists' clinical practices, research, and the profession. The relevance of AI and its impact on the clinical practice and routine of professionals in medical physics were evaluated by medical physicists and researchers in this field. An online survey questionnaire was designed for distribution to professionals and students in medical physics around the world. In addition to demographics questions, we surveyed opinions on the role of AI in medical physicists' practices, the possibility of AI threatening/disrupting the medical physicists' practices and career, the need for medical physicists to acquire knowledge on AI, and the need for teaching AI in postgraduate medical physics programmes. The level of knowledge of medical physicists on AI was also consulted. A total of 1019 respondents from 94 countries participated. More than 85% of the respondents agreed that AI would play an essential role in medical physicists' practices. AI should be taught in the postgraduate medical physics programmes, and that more applications such as quality control (QC), treatment planning would be performed by AI. Half of the respondents thought AI would not threaten/disrupt the medical physicists' practices. AI knowledge was mainly acquired through self-taught and work-related activities. Nonetheless, many (40%) reported that they have no skill in AI. The general perception of medical physicists was that AI is here to stay, influencing our practices. Medical physicists should be prepared with education and training for this new reality.
人工智能（AI）是一种创新工具，有可能影响医学物理师的临床实践、研究及整个行业。该领域的医学物理师和研究人员评估了人工智能的相关性及其对医学物理专业人员临床实践和日常工作的影响。设计了一份在线调查问卷，分发给世界各地的医学物理专业人员和学生。除了人口统计学问题外，我们还调查了关于人工智能在医学物理师实践中的作用、人工智能威胁/扰乱医学物理师实践和职业的可能性、医学物理师获取人工智能知识的必要性以及在医学物理研究生课程中教授人工智能的必要性等方面的意见。我们还了解了医学物理师对人工智能的知识水平。共有来自94个国家的1019名受访者参与。超过85%的受访者同意人工智能将在医学物理师的实践中发挥重要作用。应该在医学物理研究生课程中教授人工智能，并且人工智能将执行更多诸如质量控制（QC）、治疗计划等应用。一半的受访者认为人工智能不会威胁/扰乱医学物理师的实践。人工智能知识主要通过自学和与工作相关的活动获得。尽管如此，许多人（40%）报告称他们没有人工智能技能。医学物理师的普遍看法是，人工智能将持续存在并影响我们的实践。医学物理师应该为应对这一新现实做好教育和培训准备。
