Who needs radiologists when software does 99% of the work of parsing & analyzing medical images? I mean someone has to snap the pic and then sign the report I guess, but for 250k/yr?
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I have never met a patient that wanted AI to take a look in their own radiology. Even when they use AI, the patient is asking the doctor for his/her opinion.
250k to present results as their own opinion as a patient platitude is a lot IMO.
It isn't like software development and generative AI, where humans can effectively operate at higher levels than existing software; radiology at least IME has been inverted this way for years.
AI still isn’t good enough. Maybe one day but not now, by itself. Geoffrey Hinton was wrong.
Image processing and analysis is decades old, and has been far more accurate than humans at radiology
But hey if america needs to pay huge sums for soneone to say "I concur" so patients feel good, so be it.