Welcome to 2017! What a blast 2016 was. It seemed like every day there was a new, massive breakthrough in deep learning research. It was also the year that the wider world really started to take notice. The media, professional groups, and the general public all climbed aboard the AI hype train in 2016. Governments commissioned … Continue reading Predicting Medical AI in 2017
Month: December 2016
The three phases of medical AI trials
In a recent blogpost I explored how to critically read medical artificial intelligence research, focusing on the relevance of these experiments to clinical practice. It has since struck me that we don't have a simple, clear way to discuss the idea that some studies are still a still a long way off use in the clinics, and others … Continue reading The three phases of medical AI trials
Standardised reports might be good for humans, but they are probably bad for artificial intelligence
After an amazingly high number of readers for my last blog post (thanks to everyone who read and shared it), I have starting writing a series of posts on the big question in radiology – will radiologists be replaced by machines in the near future? Geoff Hinton thinks we have five to ten years left, and as one … Continue reading Standardised reports might be good for humans, but they are probably bad for artificial intelligence