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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by make3 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:37PM (#28395693)
way cheaper than 90%, and way faster than 99%. Radiologists are crazy expensive, at least 50$ per scan. Let's say you use a 1000$ GPU (which you don't need to as these models are usually tiny in practice because of the limited size of medical datasets and because you're not doing hundreds of scans per second.. a CPU is very likely fine). Then.. just 20 scans in you make your money. Let's say the license cost is 5$ per scan. Still make your money very fast.
Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by cratermoon on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:40PM (#28395741)
> Still make your money very fast.

Not much consolation for the families of the dead patients that your software misdiagnosed.

Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by anchpop on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:05PM (#28396011)
I doubt your reasoning will be much consolation to the families of people who didn't get a scan because it cost $50 rather than $5
Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by nradov on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:15PM (#28396809)
US medical insurers are required to fully cover mammography screening at no cost to the patient.

https://www.hrsa.gov/womens-guidelines/index.html

Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by colinmhayes on Thursday September 02, 2021 @06:02PM (#28397940)
Many americans don't have insurance.
Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by detaro on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:07PM (#28396025)
note that GP assumed still charging $50 for some nice profit.
Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by cratermoon on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:35PM (#28396361)
And didn't take into account the additional costs and risks of unnecessary treatments or surgery if the AI returns a false positive.