Artificial intelligence has been shown to be just as good and even slightly better than human doctors in making medical diagnoses using images.
A thorough analysis of various studies that were published since 2012 was carried out by the researchers. The AI used in the studies used deep learning in classifying the images based on certain features, which were compared to visuals of diseases.
To come to such conclusions, the scientists made an effort to whittle down the list of often-poor studies they looked at from 20,000 to just 14 which had the best quality data. In these studies, the deep learning systems used images from datasets that were separate from the ones used to train them. These same images were then shown to human experts.
The researchers found that AI was able to correctly pinpoint illnesses 87% of the time. That's compared to 86% for healthcare pros. The AI was also right in clearing people of diseases 93% of the time, in contrast to 91% of human experts. One caveat to this statistic was that the healthcare workers tested were not given extra info about patients that they would have had in real-world situations.
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Not WebMD it just says I have cancer.
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