aNewDomain.net — You trust your doctor’s diagnosis, hopefully.
How about a medical computer equipped with artificial
intelligence to diagnose and treat you? New research out of
Indiana University suggests “machine learning” — the technology
behind voice recognition systems, self-driving cars to name a
few — could help cut healthcare costs by more than 50 percent
and improve patient outcomes by nearly 50 percent. Image credit:
Wikimedia Commons Researchers in the study were able to
successfully get computers to “think like a doctor” by using
computer models to simulate numerous alternative treatment paths
in the future, in addition to continuously planning treatments
as new information surfaced. The studies were not disease-
specific, indicating the tech could work for any diagnosis or
disorder when relevant information is imputed. “We’re using
modern computational approaches to learn from clinical data and
develop complex plans through the simulation of numerous,
alternative sequential decision paths,” said Ca