Ballinger: Stanford's 1978 MYCIN AI system outperformed five pathologists
Brandon Ballinger · a16z Podcast | Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice · Jan 2, 2019 · at 2:07
Brandon Ballinger, co-founder of Cardiogram, highlights the history of medical AI expert systems and why technical success did not translate into clinical deployment.
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“An interesting case study is, is the Meissen system, which is from 1978, I believe, and so this was an expert system trained at Stanford. It would take inputs that were just typed in manually, and then it would essentially try to predict what a pathologist would show. And it was put to the test against five pathologists, and it beat all five of them.”
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