Diagnosis based on image recognition is something machines are already very good at, even without recent deep learning techniques (although I am sure they will

Diagnosis based on image recognition is something machines are already very good at, even without recent deep learning techniques (although I am sure they will help). For instance in college I worked with a radiologist to write an image-recognition program to identify osteoporosis from 3D MRI data. We used some super-basic image segmentation algorithms to identify the bounds of the bone layer that we cared about. From there a model was able to determine mechanical properties of the bone and therefore make an assessment with much more granularity than the human eye. This was a first-year grad student class and I was coming at this totally naive with some Matlab scripts, and we managed to get usable results in weeks. Here's a sample of that professor's research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2926228/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2926228/ While I am not in the camp of "machines will replace doctors", I think radiology and other similar fields are in for a sea-change in technique and a large reduction in the use of human judgement.