Chinese AI Beats 15 Doctors In Tumor Diagnosis Competition (thenextweb.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday July 3, 2018 @01:40PM from the wiped-floor dept.

An artificial intelligence system called BioMind has managed to defeated a team comprised of 15 of China's top doctors by a margin of two to one. The Next Web reports the details: When diagnosing brain tumors, BioMind was correct 87 percent of the time, compared to 66 percent by the medical professionals. The AI also only took 15 minutes to diagnose the 225 cases, while doctors took 30. In regards to predicting brain hematoma expansion, BioMind was victorious again, as it was correct in 83 percent of cases, with humans managing only 63 percent. Researchers trained the AI by feeding it thousands upon thousands of images from Beijing Tiantan Hospital's archives. This has made it as good at diagnosing neurological diseases as senior doctors, as it has a 90 percent accuracy rate. Further reading available via Xinhua.

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Impressive by 110010001000 · 2018-07-03 13:42 · Score: 4, Interesting

This is really amazing. It is like computers are good at image recognition. I see a lot of potential in this AI.
AI as an invaluable support tool for doctors by Camembert · 2018-07-03 14:31 · Score: 4, Interesting

This is encouraging news. i had read previously of Watson helping doctors in diagnosing a baffling case of Leukemia that seemed totally untreatable, Watson correctly indicated that the patient had 2 kinds of Leukemia at once, which the human doctors didn’t realise.
Machine learning will not soon replace human doctors, I think, but you can see it becoming a powerful support tool for doctors, hopefully finding ailments earlier as well. Fascinating.