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Re:Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as ... by newyankee on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:33PM (#13486393)
Why do you think so, if you have the right data with many different algorithms running on it (even the one you are not interested in) i am sure it will uncover those. I am not doubting the hunch your Doctor felt due to his expertise was useless, but with continuous data ingestion and analyses coupled with as granular as the features can get this can only improve

In fact complicated algorithms with so many streams of data that are probably not directly shared by specialists until it is needed may uncover new things even before traditional Doctors spot it

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Re:Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as ... by jimbokun on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:59PM (#13487094)
Because the programmers building the anesthesiologist machine learning model probably didn't think to include that check in the model, as they don't have the appropriate training.
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Re:Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as ... by btian on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:27PM (#13487608)
And for some reason you don't think some programmers are building ML models to classify all diseases known to man kind?
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