Re:IBM Watson correctly diagnoses a form of leukemia
by xbmcuser on Sunday August 07, 2016 @04:21AM
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Yeah I do think the large data sets and processing power available to systems like Watson and Deepmind etc can and should improve detection of many diseases. More than 100k people die in the us alone due to hospital mistakes. 12million misdiagnosed a year is huge number
It's a fat target for automation because much of the expertise is available in diagnostic protocols and few humans can hold all that information in their heads and keep it up to date. MYCIN only used a few hundred rules and it could keep track of which antibiotics to use better than MDs.