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Re:Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your fie... by computerex on Sunday February 05, 2017 @09:59PM (#13576195)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3372692/

Machine learning is already used in Radiology. Chances are eventually Radiology will be the domain of machines. But it's going to take some time to get there. Healthcare is extremely regulated and closed minded.

Most of the people in the thread you listed above are clearly biased towards medicine and against computer science and machine learning. But machine learning has been having success in diagnostic medicine even well before the deep learning boom that thread talks about.

For example: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1617200/

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your fie... by code777777 on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @08:59PM (#13604008)
Agreed, in theory it's possible to create a tricorder-like system. Basically, radiology and advanced diagnostics in a box.
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