Re:Why doctors in America earn so much
by rqtwteye on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:51PM
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Agree about AI. It would be way more patient and take its time to talk to the patient than doctors have these days.
Re:Why doctors in America earn so much
by haldujai on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:57PM
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AI has had the opposite effect on false positives. Statistically, most patients aren't (that) sick and don't have zebras.
Taking radiology as an example (because that's my specialty) ~90% of studies are normal and some types (e.g. CT for pulmonary embolism, CT for transient ischemic attack/vertigo) are closer to 98-99% normal.
Every diagnostic AI application I've seen implemented as of 2023 that merely replicates the work of a human has done nothing but increase false positives.
The extreme class imbalance makes this a non-trivial problem.
Aka it doesn't always happen but that is the goal.
Honestly disease diagnosis is the one area I could see AI being super helpful in which might lower this burden from extreme memorization to facilitating collecting data for analysis and being a guard on false positives.