Machine Reading of X-Ray Images
January 2, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
The glucometer is one example of how a disruptive innovation can change medical practice, and here’s another. Researchers at Stanford University have developed a deep learning algorithm for detecting lung diseases and trained it on 10,000 chest x-ray images. “The researchers had four radiologists go through a test set of x-rays and make diagnoses, which were compared with diagnoses performed by CheXNet. Not only did CheXNet beat radiologists at spotting pneumonia, but once the algorithm was expanded, it proved better at identifying the other 13 diseases as well.” MORE
Image Credit: L.A. Cicero, Stanford News