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Clinical scoring (which is what I assume you are referring to as linear models) is mostly useful when the diagnosis is already more or less identified, to estim
by rscho 2y ago
Clinical scoring (which is what I assume you are referring to as linear models) is mostly useful when the diagnosis is already more or less identified, to estimate prognosis and choose treatment options. They're no exploratory tools. When you 'feed the doc's expertise into a linear system', it means the expertise required to identify the problem in the first place has already done its job.
- Mathnerd314 2y agoI don't have the original reference, it was an invited talk at UChicago, but something like https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0957417408001851 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09574... for example. But regarding diagnosis, there are symptom checkers where you feed stuff in. I get the impression that multiple companies are in the process of building such tools based on crawling research papers to diagnose even very rare conditions. IIRC IBM Watson had such functionality.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoNHS should be building this for PubMed and offering it for free.
- pintxo 2y agoOne example: https://ada.com https://ada.com I mean, it's not like rocket science. More like investing the effort to build a really big decision tree.