I ran across this comment[1] from four years ago by an accomplished radiologist claiming computers will never be reading images anytime soon, certainly not in h

I ran across this comment[1] from four years ago by an accomplished radiologist claiming computers will never be reading images anytime soon, certainly not in his career. Since I worked on an IBM filmless radiology system for the US military hospitals (DIN-PACS) in the late 90s, I wondered about the current state of the art in computer-assisted radiology. Turns out IBM Watson and other AI techniques are preparing to solve the fatigue problem of human radiologists reading thousands of images a day. Just like military radar operators got lots of automated assistance, radiologists will soon be backed up by automated systems. Humans are poor at estimating an exponential rate of change. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033422