A.I. Versus M.D.

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A.I. Versus M.D. - The New Yorker

'Hence, “deep learning.”Thrun began with skin cancer; in particular, keratinocyte carcinoma (the most common class of cancer in the U.S.) and melanoma (the most dangerous kind of skin cancer). '

'Embedded in a second group of diagnostic images were line drawings of animals; within a third group, the outlines of letters of the alphabet. '

'To prepare, I read a textbook, a classic in medical education, that divided the act of diagnosis into four tidy phases. '

'My own induction into diagnosis began in the fall of 1997, in Boston, as I started my clinical rotations. '

'In the final phase, definitive lab tests, X-rays, or CT scans are deployed to confirm the hypothesis and seal the diagnosis. '

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