Then, you have a computer, it can reference recent studies compare symptoms with hundreds of diseases and generate a test plan accordingly based on probability of a disease or urgency. Frankly, I am surprised not more work is being done with algorithms in medicine.
Humans are biased, egoistic and most don't like being told they are wrong.
If the only job left per se for doctors is to 'okay and sign off' on prescriptions that a computer recommends, after a computer does the entire intake/evaluation, then 1 doctor can replace 100 or 1000 for 20 second evals over skype.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, (and probably soon Amazon) have advanced the AI industry further than IBM at this point. You can predict this by the number of papers released by each company. Stats from 2017: https://medium.com/@chuvpilo/whos-ahead-in-ai-research-insig...
Computer makes diagnosis on image of lesion that has already been biopsied and has a known correct diagnosis.
I don't know how it would work for human false negatives that were never biopsied. Possibly the AI could be trusted enough to make a biopsy on its recommendation.
