[Perspectives] Augmenting diagnostic vision with AI

In the span of their professional lives a radiologist will read over 10 million images, a dermatologist will analyse 200  000 skin lesions, and a pathologist will review nearly 100 000 specimens. Now imagine a computer doing this work over days, rather than decades, and learning from and refining its diagnostic acumen with each new image. This is the capability that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring to medic al care: the potential to interpret clinical data more accurately and more rapidly than medical specialists.

Source: LANCET - July 14, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Giorgio Quer, Evan D Muse, Nima Nikzad, Eric J Topol, Steven R Steinhubl Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research