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Very interesting paper, thanks. It was time someone looked into it. I can't take these equally populist and unsupported reports anymore that some neural network

by Rochus 7y ago

Very interesting paper, thanks. It was time someone looked into it. I can't take these equally populist and unsupported reports anymore that some neural network is doing better than a medical specialist with decades of experience. It may well be that this applies in individual cases. But obviously there is a lack of proper studies and unbiased evidence.

davnn 7y ago
> It may well be that this applies in individual cases. Well from a machine learning perspective it will probably be in all cases where enough, qualitative data is available and not a lot of contextual knowledge is necessary that cannot be represented in the data. My guess is that this will be the case in a vast majority of cases and it's just a matter of time - but I'm definitely biased as an ML researcher :).
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- Rochus 7y ago
  It's still a "proof by induction". There is no reason to conclude from the individual cases that it works in all cases.
sungam 7y ago
We also looked at this for Dermatology with similar conclusions https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjd.18880 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjd.18880
- Rochus 7y ago
  Very interesting, thanks. I also find it remarkable that most affiliates of both papers are from the UK.
  - tomp 7y ago
    That's the real value (going forward) of a national health insurance system treating most people and having a financial interest in keeping them healthy long-term.