AI Radiology Report Formatting on The vRad Platform

AI report formatting helps radiologists keep their eyes on the images. Instead of tabbing through a template and dictating into fixed fields, the radiologist dictates findings in any style they prefer, and the order of their own search pattern. Native AI organizes the report afterward, which removes the constant report editing and rearranging that pulls attention away from the images during a read.

AI hallucination is a real concern in radiology. Some radiology reporting software uses generative AI to interpret the radiologist’s dictation and rewrite it. That can introduce changes a radiologist never intended. The vRad Platform avoids this by never modifying the words of the radiologist.

The vRad Platform avoids hallucinations with strict rules to never modify the radiologist’s dictated findings when formatting the radiology report. Qualifiers such as “probable” and “acute” and specifics such as laterality and follow-up intervals, appear in the report as they were dictated by the radiologist. Some generative-AI reporting tools modify dictation, which can drop or alter that language.

On The vRad Platform, radiology report consistency is achieved by AI technology that formats the report after dictation rather than from a template the radiologist must follow while reading. Each radiologist keeps their own dictation style, order, and macros. The practice sets report layout preferences once, such as impression placement and grouping by body region, and every report follows that style, regardless of who reads the case.

The benefit of AI radiology report formatting for referring physicians is that the report is organized the same way every time, no matter which radiologist reads the case. If the practice is utilizing The vRad Platform, findings are grouped by body region under consistent headings, so a clinician can find the element they need, such as the lungs on a chest CT, in the same place on every report.

No. AI report formatting organizes findings the radiologist dictated; an AI-generated report drafts the findings from the AI image analysis. Very few AI report-generation products are FDA-cleared today. AI report formatting is available now on The vRad Platform, along with optional AI Impressions, which generate an impression from the radiologist’s dictated findings for review before signing.