2015年9月18日 星期五

Computers are getting as good as doctors at spotting medical conditions

The California HealthCare Foundation challenged coders to write an algorithm that can look at photos of diabetics’ retinas and spot the subtle signs of diabetes-related damage. Doctors agree on these diagnoses 84% of the time. But now a university statistician has written an algorithm that agrees with a doctor 85% of the time.

ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) can sometimes be put to rather whimsical...
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