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How man and machine can work together to diagnose diseases in medical scans

  • Written by Anant Madabhushi, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
What does AI see in this picture?NIH Image Gallery, CC BY-NC

With artificial intelligence, machines can now examine thousands of medical images – and billions of pixels within these images – to identify patterns too subtle for a radiologist or pathologist to identify.

The machine then uses this information to identify the presence of a...

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