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by en-us 2466 days ago
ML won't be used to find cures, but to diagnose and classify disease. For example, CNN features could be applied to medical imaging to learn to detect various diseases, and that algorithm could replace the "quick read" that physicians order when the Radiologist isn't available to do a full read.

Another possible use would be to identify septic or nearly septic patients and alert a clinician to intervene.