How machine learning can transform medicine - Verdict Medical Devices

Machine learning is an often-used term that has been promised to do everything from making workers more productive to taking over individuals' jobs entirely. Frankly, it will likely be many years before anyone should be concerned about being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) at their job. However, doctors might find AI impinging upon their jobs sooner rather than later. The medical field has some characteristics that make it an attractive target for machine learning. The high stakes nature of correct disease diagnosis, coupled with over-worked and fatigued doctors, can lead to cases where patients with easily treatable diseases go undiagnosed and suffer greatly from this. Combined with a bottleneck in diagnoses due to the limited number of doctors available and expensive diagnosis costs, machine learning algorithms can appear very attractive for both patients and clinics to implement.