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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by mcguire on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:18PM (#28396162)
Flipping a coin is like 99.999% cheaper and 99.998% faster than the AI, though. I mean, as long as you don't care about accuracy...
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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by nradov on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:12PM (#28396767)
The lifetime incidence of breast cancer is 13%, and on any given annual exam it's under 1%. So you could build a >99% accurate AI radiologist by hard coding it to always produce negative results.
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Re:Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in brea... by addandsubtract on Thursday September 02, 2021 @08:23PM (#28399076)
NeverTellMeTheOdds.exe
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