Rich Ulrich wrote:
> Computers do better than experts in making medical
> diagnoses when the correct answer has to be from a narrow set.
I think that some of the early systems also were better than humans
at identifying the possibility of unusual diagnoses. AFAIR it took the
humans to reach a final diagnosis, but the computer could raise options
that the human might not have thought of. [Sort of reassuring if
you have a medical emergency in the small hours, with only an
overworked/underslept junior doctor to perform the diagnosis.]
Again going back a few years, tropical diseases might not even be
considered as a diagnosis for UK residents. Which might be a problem
if you had just been to the tropics.
Computers are good at not forgetting all the possibilities.
Peter
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