A.I Versus M.D. What happens when diagnosis is automated?


In some trials, “deep learning” systems have outperformed human experts.
ILLUSTRATION BY DANIEL SAVAGE

One evening last November, a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Bronx arrived at the emergency room at Columbia University’s medical center with a grinding headache. Her vision had become blurry, she told the E.R. doctors, and her left hand felt numb and weak. The doctors examined her and ordered a CT scan of her head.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/ai-versus-md

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