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I for one am starting to look into medical tourism, I hear doctors are so cheap in China that your trip will practically pay for itself and you get a trip to China

As user Chana said it makes some sense just not under a for profit system, it can difficult to tell one red mass of flesh on a screen from another, so in theory computer vision could provide a "second pair of eyes" for verification, but that's only if it was actually implemented correctly with the proper testing and training, which it wont be until it's costing hospitals more in lawsuits than it gets from kickbacks

It's also exactly the kind of thing that, using the methodologies accepted by the "AI" industry, AI will beat human professionals at easily every time! (Clown industry with clown methodologies.)

The doctors watching as the janitors mop the blood off the OR floor after I die when the “AI” surgery robot misidentifies my heart as my appendix: just think of all the training data we’re going to get from this!

Even the radiology analysis applications have been largely bullshit. They don't actually outperform humans and most of it is due to using heavily biased datasets and poorly tuned black box models. At its base, a "modern" model doing this kind of thing is learning patterns. The pattern learned may not be the thing you're actually trying to recognize. It may instead notice that, say, an image was taken with contrast and that statically increases the chance that the image will contain the issue of interest, as contrast imaging is done when other issues are already suspected. But it didn't "see" the problem in the image, it learned the other thing, so now it thinks that most people getting contrast imaging have cancer or whatever

You know the story about the $1,000 chalk mark on the generator?