11. Conclusion

X-ray medical imaging was born over a century ago, and after a long period of stability, it underwent upheavals of several kinds between 1970 and 2015.

On the one hand, it has gone all-digital, both in terms of image acquisition techniques and image processing. The possibilities offered by the gigantic capacities of image storage, processing and distribution are far from being fully exploited, or even imagined. This is obvious at the level of image management networks (PACS), with the emergence of the cloud, cyber-security, etc., and it is also proven at the level of acquisition techniques, with greater mobility of X-ray devices since the early 2010s: for example, commercial availability of lightweight, completely autonomous digital detectors (battery-powered, equipped with wifi), digitally attached to a tablet. More than an improvement in the device's intrinsic...