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I left radiotherapy for this reason: they haven't the faintest idea what they are doing, and are constrained by whatever manufacturers managed to get the FDA to
by brnt 5y ago
I left radiotherapy for this reason: they haven't the faintest idea what they are doing, and are constrained by whatever manufacturers managed to get the FDA to approve, which is 20 year old tech at best. Not that radiotherapists/logists know how to deal with modern tech... A small hint: our software repo was migrated TO svn in 2014.
When people do 'AI' in radiology, they mean making little with scripts in Tensorflow. Sure, it's a beginning, but I've seen entire institutes being unable to get to grips and move past that stage. You wouldn't be able to tell from their slides, of course.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoNot sure how modern AI is going to help here. > they haven't the faintest idea what they are doing, and are constrained by whatever manufacturers managed to get the FDA to approve (...) If you take this layer of proprietary magic nobody understands, and add DNNs to mix, you'll get... two layers of proprietary magic which nobody understands (and possibly owned by two different parties).
- brnt 5y agoIf only there were two layers of proprietary magic ;)
- mikekij 5y ago@brnt It's great to see someone else from radiotherapy on HN. I'd love to chat if you're down. Shoot me an email.
- brnt 5y agoI've left the field for greener pastures ;) Looked at your website, interesting, but curious how you deal with all the legacy software. Java was considered quite recent at one of the places I worked, they were rolling Delphi in 2019 and were not planning to switch!
- mikekij 5y agoIt is an interesting market, for sure. The fact that these vendors are reluctant to upgrade tech stacks actually creates a bunch of opportunities. (Although we wish they'd just upgrade their Windows version:)