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by nradov 642 days ago
I'm glad to see that this model uses multiple patient chart data elements beyond just images. Some earlier more naive models attempted to treat it as a pure image classification problem which isn't sufficient outside the simplest cases. Human radiologists rely heavily on other factors including patient age, sex, previous diagnoses, patient reported symptoms, etc.
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> patient reported symptoms

You make it sound like the reporting radiologist is given a referral with helpful, legible information on it. That this ever happened doubtful.

Referrals are more problematic but if the radiologist works in the same organization as the ordering physician then they should have access to the full patient chart in the EHR.