Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning

A high-quality blog series by Luke Oakden-Rayner, a radiologist (MD) who is doing a PhD focusing on applying machine learning to medical images and text.<p>The End of Human Doctors:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;the-end-of-human-doctors-introduction&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;the-end-of...</a>

Bit of an aside, but I&#x27;d love to know if said Deep Learning could possibly learn to detect whether a pneumonia was merely eosinophilic (no invader, just white cells gone wild.) I&#x27;m hoping that maybe a more general distribution would be characteristic of eosinophilic pneumonia, I suppose.

I&#x27;m currently taking an ML seminar through my university&#x27;s computer science department while in medical school, and it blows my mind daily. I&#x27;d love to contribute, but know that I don&#x27;t have the time or patience to become an effective ML researcher in medicine. Cheers to these fantastic individuals pushing the application of ML in medicine, potentially saving human lives.