Re:IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcar...
by andrepd on Saturday August 08, 2015 @07:42PM
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Maybe not right now, but there is nothing to say that it can't eventually surpass humans in effectiveness and critical error rate. 10-15 years ago people would have said "yeah self-driving cars are good, but as an aid for the driver, never as a full replacement".
While computers don't get tired, they also have a really hard time solving stuff like annotation tasks automatically. One thing is getting a good enough general performance, another is to never make critical errors. I see a huge potential for ML approaches in health care, but primarily as an aid for the health care professionals and not as a full replacement.