Machine Learning and Healthcare - DZone Big Data

The last few years have seen a number of fascinating case studies that have used machine learning to produce medical diagnoses. There are a couple of new examples from both a corporate giant and a nimbler startup. On the giant side of the fence is a traditional player in this space. Researchers at Google have developed an algorithm for scanning our eyes in order to better spot a particularly common form of blindness. The project follows a familiar path, feeding the algorithm a bunch of medical images of the retina to train it to look for diabetic retinopathy, which is a condition believed to affect around 1/3 of diabetes patients.