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Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted
Here's an anecdote; Brother has prostate cancer which was then targeted for treatment via a full body Cat Scan. They turned AI loose on the Cat Scan afterwards which noted a heart anomaly.
Follow up angiogram indicated a "widowmaker" vein blockage. They sedated him for 24 hrs. and then preformed open heart surgery and saved his life.
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Wow, hits home.
During a break from college in the Spring of 1980, I worked in systems engineering at GE... we were developing the company's second whole body CT machine.
The community of academics and company tech folks were already working on methods, algorithms and approaches to use the information that CT images are based on to extract information to enhance and expand their diagnostic capabilities.
The very next year I did some design work on the company's first digital subtraction angiography system.
Prostates... some are removed via surgical intervention... these days quite frequently with the assistance of the Davinci robot. Folks with whom I worked started that company and developed that tech. And some got quite wealthy.
When I started in medical imaging we had mini computers and were just starting to employ microprocessors. We could already see how AI and ML could help in medical imaging and diagnostic medicine.
Things are gonna pop more quickly now... exponentially faster.
The ongoing "build out" of AI likely has, and will continue to enable the discovery and development of technologies that can contribute to improvements healthcare-- both dx and rx.
And we always think of two things... better outcomes and lower costs.