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For Second Opinion, Doctors Consult a Computer?
- danso 14y agoWhy not for a first opinion? http://books.google.com/books?id=TA7Q27RWlj0C&q=radiologists#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=TA7Q27RWlj0C&q=radiolog... > Experienced radiologists who evaluate chest X-rays as "normal" or "abnormal" contradict themselves 20% of the time when they see the same picture on different occasions Seems like computers/machine-learning could handle a majority of diagnoses, with a human being needed to come in and reevaluate the tricky edge cases.