Facebook AI Research is working with NYU School of Medicine to make MRI scans up to 10 times faster through artificial intelligence.

The effort announced today uses knowledge obtained from the large corpus of images to essentially fill in the blanks in partial images to hasten the speed of MRI scans.

The goal of making MRIs 10 times faster was arrived at because that’s the speed teams at NYU and Facebook think is needed to deliver substantial benefits and move this research to clinical practice and mass adoption.

Shorter MRI times can mean more patients benefit from MRI scans of bones or soft tissue like blood vessels, but it also means people in fragile health are subjected to the loud banging noises and cramped space for shorter periods of time.

Just amazing terms and formulations. In reality all is simple - by default all insurance plans will offer only this MRI for poor (with expensive option to get real full MRI), and no, it won't be much more people, it'll be optimization of MRI by not buying or repairing existing. Such approach will allow to significantly, up to 10 fold rise the profits. But somehow this geniuses forgot to tell you about extreme margins and extreme corruption in the existing MRI equipment.