In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become the research hotspot in both academic and industrial societies, and has been applied to biometrics, natural language processing (NLP), finance and healthcare, et al., with huge success. The most recent progress of research and application of AI in medical imaging was introduced, including intelligent imaging system, intelligent image processing and analysis, radiomics and the combination of medical image and NLP, et al. The importance and feasibility of developing full-pipeline AI techniques were elaborated, and the related innovative work from both academic and industrial societies in recent years was introduced. Research of AI in medical imaging is still in its early stage and much more work needs to be done in the future, which will make this research area a long-term international hotspot.