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Re:Machine learning is booming in medicine, but also facing ... by delfinom on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:29AM (#27434241)
>Some radiologists think that AI will be really good for filtering out normal images, so that they only have to review anomalies. But I don't think that a model that detects diseases will be too successful, even if they manage to make it really work.

Radiologists say this until they get malpractice lawsuits. Seriously, I once injured my wrist and the first radiologist said it was just a sprain, but no surprise the hospital was using a outsourced...overseas provider for that quick analysis. The hospital had a inhouse radiologist review it as a course of business later on in a few days and the hospital panicked with phone calls to get me back in because there were numerous wrist bone fractures and they took the first step towards liability issues

Could an AI do it? Sure. But you sure as hell need a second opinion

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Re:Machine learning is booming in medicine, but also facing ... by ixacto on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:39PM (#27442898)
Sure but why not take the best of both worlds? Make a ai analyze your wrist fracture and also a radiologist analyze it. If the results don’t agree then you need to re-analyze.

That would even drive down the possibility of malpractice.

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Re:Machine learning is booming in medicine, but also facing ... by throwaway4400 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:37PM (#27443951)
A radiologist would have insurance in place for malpractice that indemnifies her/him. So your suggestion that a radiologist would be motivated to use AI to reduce this risk does not seem applicable to me. The idea to run AI alongside the human tool seems to be the current default suggestion these days, now that we have collectively realised that AI cannot do anything serious on its own. Pair it up with a human and the two can work together, with some handholding. But it is a hard sell, the software is now just duplicating a capability, and all of the issues that raises of potentially having two answers to one question. As a radiologist business, you would have to dedicate manpower to investigating when the AI has a different answer. Honestly, if I had a radiology practice, considering the points above, my answer would be no.
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