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WCPT poster: Introduction to machine learning in healthcare

May 5, 2019

in AI, Clinical

decision-making, expert systems, healthcare, image recognition, judgement, machine learning, natural language processing, nlp, poster, prediction, robotics, wcpt

My poster and list of references for the WCPT 2019 conference in Geneva.
IBM’s Watson gave unsafe recommendations for treating cancer

Aug 8, 2018

in AI, Clinical

cancer, diagnosis, expert systems, machine learning, watson

In 2012, doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center partnered with IBM to train Watson to diagnose and treat patients. But according to IBM documents dated from last summer, the supercomputer has frequently given bad advice, like when it suggested a cancer patient with severe bleeding be given a drug that could cause the bleeding…
A.I. Versus M.D. What happens when diagnosis is automated?

Jul 25, 2018

in AI, Clinical

algorithms, clinical decision making, decision support systems, diagnosis, expert systems, machine learning, siddhartha mukherjee

The word “diagnosis,” he reminded me, comes from the Greek for “knowing apart.” Machine-learning algorithms will only become better at such knowing apart—at partitioning, at distinguishing moles from melanomas. But knowing, in all its dimensions, transcends those task-focussed algorithms. In the realm of medicine, perhaps the ultimate rewards come from knowing together. Source: A.I. Versus…