AI in medicine will help doctors, not replace them

Re:AI in medicine will help doctors, not replace them by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:09PM (#21530796)

Time and effort? ML already finds lung cancer better than human radiologists, so it’s clear there are datasets that are of sufficient quality. We continue to improve datasets wherever possible.

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Re:AI in medicine will help doctors, not replace them by rscho on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:17PM (#21530857)

In a word: no. Machines can find a spot on an image better than a radiologist when it is known that there might be one.

Unfortunately, that is of very little use to the clinician. The big hype is a consequence of a big misunderstanding of the practical constraints of healthcare.

Time and effort don't fix bad data and bad statisticians.

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Re:AI in medicine will help doctors, not replace them by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:38PM (#21531037)

But time and effort does enable better pipelines to improve future data quality. Garbage in, garbage out, don’t collect garbage.

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Re:AI in medicine will help doctors, not replace them by rscho on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:42PM (#21531075)

I'm sold. Now try to convince the people who are important to convince and have a good laugh. Reliable data collection is the biggest challenge for modern medicine. A challenge far greater than getting better statistical models.

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Re:AI in medicine will help doctors, not replace them by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:45PM (#21531104)

Email in profile. Point me to decision makers and I’ll make the case on my own dime.

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