Toward automated image analysis: future possibilities in historical perspective.

This field is in its infancy. Some people look at artificial intelligence and just call it complex programming, but artificial intelligence is now being applied to image understanding and attempts to utilize knowledge about the domain of the image to analyze it. The practicality of this approach is a long way off, however, and the radiologist of today does not need to fear that computers will change the work habits of image interpretation for some time to come.