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James Finigan

Pulmonologist and Director of Respiratory Centers of Excellence at National Jewish Health, specializing in lung nodules and lung cancer.

Oct 20, 2026

9:02
What is the difference between assistive and augmentative AI? And does the technology fit into the natural program?
9:12
Yeah, that's a good question.
9:13
So assistive... broadly, assistive does things that people can already do.
9:20
So, for example, sticking with lung nodules for a second, radiologists can identify lung nodules on a CAT scan.
9:27
There are AI tools, and they're deployed across the U.S. in different locations, that can identify a nodule for the radiologist and can help the radiologist or assist the radiologist and say, hey, on this CAT scan, there's three nodules, and here's where they are.
9:43
The radiologist can get an can then look at them, decide, yes, these are nodules or, you know, in certain cases, these are not nodules.
9:50
And they can then sort of incorporate that into their read and physicians can incorporate that.
12:56
Speak about that in your PowerPoint presentation about this.

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