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0 pointsbitL7y ago0 comments

Radiologists are really bad at detection, even after many years of study. That's quite often due to coarse level of details of scans when only large tumors can be observed or recognized with some certainty. Surpassing humans there is not so difficult, but improving accuracy from e.g. 32% to 34% doesn't really sound like a win :(

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carlmr7y ago

2% more accuracy could still be millions of people if it's a common enough cancer like breast cancer.

schwurb7y ago

> 32% to 34% doesn't really sound like a win :( We are talking about human lives here, not about beating some CPU benchmark. Detection improvement by 2% is huge in almost any sickness.

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