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Algorithm can predict pancreatic cancer from CT scans well before diagnosis

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Cautious

The dataset was split for training and testing purposes; 66 CT scans from 44 patients

I am not a statistician, but that sounds like a small sample.

The thing that worries the hell out of me is that cost-cutting politicians/administrators/whoever start treating the machine as an infallible source of diagnoses. Healthy people are people who actually need treatment will suffer. And unlike a human, you can't go to a big box of ML and say "what were you thinking?" because it wasn't thinking.

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