April 08, 2021

How live was RSNA 2020?

The CEO insists that the RSNA 2020 demo was live.  But was it really live, or was only the artist performance live?

An observant anonymous commenter to this blog noticed the presence of two interesting batch files on the radiologists' displays, obviously prepared well in advance.

partial snapshot of the live recording, about 8:45 

  
The first one is named Reconstru*.bat (as in tomosynthesis reconstruction from plain 2D images), and the other one is named RSNA.bat.  Why did the radiologists and their helpers need those "automated" series of software instructions?  How live was the demo, really?

There are two other thumbnails/icons.  One is a shortcut to the RadiAnt DICOM viewer, a low-cost but capable viewer for x-ray images.  Interestingly, Nanox did not pay for the software and was using it on a trial license - not really a good sign for a company that was and is supposedly doing all these x-ray image tests in preparation of an imminent 510(k) submission...  The other thumbnail is a file folder named "live Nogah," in honor of the radiologist Nogah Shabshin, who was commenting on the (supposedly) live images during the (supposedly) live demo (and forgot to disclose its Nanox affiliation during her other RSNA 2020 presentation).  Why would she have her own file folder on Nanox equipment?

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