Software Complementing Hardware: Artificial intelligence in the clinic

by Sherif Gerges figures by Olivia Foster Most of a physician’s working hours involve pattern recognition and high-level problem solving. Throughout his or her professional tenure, a dermatologist will analyze over two hundred thousand skin lesions, while a radiologist will look at millions of medical images. Yet becoming sufficiently proficient at diagnosing these images is no cakewalk: physicians spend decades building a mental reference database … Continue reading Software Complementing Hardware: Artificial intelligence in the clinic