Attendance at RSNA24, the annual conference of the Oak Brook, Ill.-based Radiological Society of North America, held every year at Chicago’s McCormick Place, is up slight over attendance at RSNA23 last year. As of Monday afternoon, Dec. 2, an RSNA media relations spokesperson reported that the estimated in-person attendance was 38,000 attendees as of Sunday, and stated that the number was expected to rise to 40,000 by Tuesday, including approximately 2,000 virtual attendees. Even without the 2,000 virtual attendees, the 2024 figure was expected to be at least 11 percent higher than the 34,175 confirmed at last year’s gathering, also at McCormick Place.
And 2023’s attendance figure had been essentially equal to that of 2022, with 34,385. The 2022 figure was dramatically higher than that of 2021, with just 21,300 attendees, in the first year since the conference had had to go virtual in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, the number of technical exhibitors this year was 715, approximately the same number as the year before.
Artificial intelligence continued to be a major theme at this year’s conference, as it had been in 2023. In his President’s Address on Sunday, Dec. 1, Curtis P. Langlotz, M.D., Ph.D., told the radiologists gathered at McCormick Place that “Forming intelligent connections from machine to machine, human to machine, and human to human will lead us to an exciting future. Building these intelligent connections will yield amazing technological innovations, with reduced stress, a more balanced life, and ample time to nurture the most intelligent connections of all—the ones we build with each other, Dr. Langlotz said.
