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AI Better Than Dermatologists At Detecting Skin Cancer, Study Finds (cbsnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: For the first time, new research suggests artificial intelligence may be better than highly-trained humans at detecting skin cancer. A study conducted by an international team of researchers pitted experienced dermatologists against a machine learning system, known as a deep learning convolutional neural network, or CNN, to see which was more effective at detecting malignant melanomas. The results? 'Most dermatologists were outperformed by the CNN,' the researchers wrote in their report, published in the journal Annals of Oncology. Fifty-eight dermatologists from 17 countries around the world participated in the study. More than half of the doctors were considered expert level with more than five years' experience. Nineteen percent said they had between two to five years' experience, and 29 percent had less than two years' experience. At first look, dermatologists correctly detected an average of 87 percent of melanomas, and accurately identified an average of 73 percent of lesions that were not malignant. Conversely, the CNN correctly detected 95 percent of melanomas. The study has been published in the journal Annals of Oncology.
Or I completely misunderstood the summary because I don't know medicine.
TFA is not much better. It is horrible journalism. It is unclear if the "AI" is actually better, with false positives and false negatives rates mingled together. It also seems to say that the humans and AI were shown DIFFERENT IMAGES, and that the humans were given additional information that the AI did not have. So the comparison of results may be meaningless.
The only thing that can be said with certainty is that CBS produces some garbage journalism.