Chinese AI Wins Against Doctors in Neuroimaging Recognition Competition

The BioMind AI system was developed by the Artificial Intelligence Research Centre for Neurological Disorders at the Beijing Tiantan Hospital and it has scored 2:0 against elite physicians in a brain diagnosing competition held in Beijing. The AI made correct diagnoses in 87% of 225 cases in roughly 15 minutes, whereas the team of human doctors only managed to achieve a 66% accuracy. BioMind was also successful in detecting brain hematoma expansion cases. In order for BioMind to be trained, the developers fed it thousands of images of nervous system diseases that were archived by the hospital in the past 10 years. Its success was not intended to pit the doctors against medical technology, on the contrary, it would be expected for the AI to work with the medical professionals and make those who were skeptical about it more accepting.