From: Huge@nowhere.much.invalid
On 2017-04-04, JAB wrote:
> Note - Long essay
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> Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote a recent piece in New Yorker called "What
> happens when diagnosis is automated?"
>
> Annals of Medicine April 3, 2017 Issue
> A.I. Versus M.D.
> What happens when diagnosis is automated?
>
> Snipped
>
> In June, 2015, ThrunÂ’s team began to test what the machine had learned
> from the master set of images by presenting it with a "validation
> set": some fourteen thousand images that had been diagnosed by
> dermatologists (although not necessarily by biopsy). Could the system
> correctly classify the images into three diagnostic categories—benign
> lesions, malignant lesions, and non-cancerous growths? The system got
> the answer right seventy-two per cent of the time. (The actual output
> of the algorithm is not "yes" or "no" but a probability that a given
> lesion belongs to a category of interest.) Two board-certified
> dermatologists who were tested alongside did worse: they got the
> answer correct sixty-six per cent of the time.
They did well. According to my dermatologist friend, the correct diagnosis
rate by visual inspection is about 50:50.
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