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Google’s lung cancer detection AI outperforms 6 human radiologists

27 pointsby jseipalmost 6 years ago

6 comments

avgDevalmost 6 years ago
Having seen many specialist&#x2F;doctors I generally think they suck at diagnosing, unless its something you could literally discover yourself by a google search and access to a specific test. I don&#x27;t think they are bad doctors, I just learned that sometimes diagnosis can be rather difficult.<p>Then, you have a computer, it can reference recent studies compare symptoms with hundreds of diseases and generate a test plan accordingly based on probability of a disease or urgency. Frankly, I am surprised not more work is being done with algorithms in medicine.<p>Humans are biased, egoistic and most don&#x27;t like being told they are wrong.
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j7akealmost 6 years ago
Aren&#x27;t these algorithms trained on expert-annotated data? If so how does it end up performing better than radiologists? Or are these radiologists only mediocre at detecting cancer?
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jseipalmost 6 years ago
It&#x27;s only a matter of time before all X-Ray, CTScans, etc. use algorithms for secondary if not primary screens.
ashleynalmost 6 years ago
What makes this different from where IBM Watson failed?
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option_greekalmost 6 years ago
One thing for sure is that all these AIs (or their creators) are pretty good at marketing than the actual doctors :).
Davieyalmost 6 years ago
What is the Google&#x27;s long term goal here? Is there a plan to monetise this?
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