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To make sure patients with the most urgent needs are seen first, Prof MacMahon says: "We use AI to immediately analyse all head scans for bleeds, all chest scans for blood clots, and all bone x-rays for fractures."

That will "severely delay" applying AI to spot potential diseases and improve clinical care, points out Prof MacMahon.

But now, Prof MacMahon and the Mater's AI research fellow Paul Banahan have trained a trial AI model to create a "synthetic MRI" from CT scans, to immediately triage patients with suspected spinal injuries.

To prevent such AI from hallucinating, "you need to make sure it's penalised in its training, if it gives you something that doesn't exist," says Prof MacMahon.

It’s a mystery that won’t be probed by director Bernard MacMahon and co-writer Allison McGourty, who tick off the usual gigs and recording anecdotes on the rise to fame with a then-this-happened dutifulness.