[theoneone]

Good luck to AI with procedures that require a doctor to search/find/diagnose a small(0.4cm) breast tumor in a ultrasound exam that could actually save the patient's life. AI can be applied(it is actually) in computer tomography scans but in exams like X-ray, ultrasound etc you cannot make it work( at least now). Also there is legal issue: who is responsible for the diagnose? The computer? The institution ? A doctor? AI in medicine will help us a lot but it's too early!

[legulere]

While I guess it is probably not fully ready for being made into a product yet, there is actually a lot of research currently going on using deep learning in e.g. mammography that show a lot of promise.

Probably a doctor will still have to check the results and sign off on them.

[tdb7893]

I think you will first see ai assisting doctors so the doctors are obviously still responsible. It's not like ai will take over all of medicine immediately but ai is generally much better at interpreting a lot of statistical data than doctors

[TeMPOraL]

> but in exams like X-ray, ultrasound etc you cannot make it work( at least now)

Why not? An image is an image.

[theoneone]

Believe me it's not the same, especially at ultrasound where everything it's not clear due external factors an body types. I do this for a living (radiologist)plus I love programming and would like to see those two come together but the reality is different. Ai could assist doctors and suggest possible findings.

[PeterisP]

Ultrasound is a bit different because it's "active looking" - if after a cursory scan the technician isn't actively directing the device at (and around!) the suspicious spot, you won't get the images required to be sure about what's there.