Very interesting paper, thanks. It was time someone looked into it. I can't take these equally populist and unsupported reports anymore that some neural network is doing better than a medical specialist with decades of experience. It may well be that this applies in individual cases. But obviously there is a lack of proper studies and unbiased evidence.
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We also looked at this for Dermatology with similar conclusions
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjd.18880
Very interesting, thanks. I also find it remarkable that most affiliates of both papers are from the UK.
That's the real value (going forward) of a national health insurance system treating most people and having a financial interest in keeping them healthy long-term.
> It may well be that this applies in individual cases.
Well from a machine learning perspective it will probably be in all cases where enough, qualitative data is available and not a lot of contextual knowledge is necessary that cannot be represented in the data. My guess is that this will be the case in a vast majority of cases and it's just a matter of time - but I'm definitely biased as an ML researcher :).
It's still a "proof by induction". There is no reason to conclude from the individual cases that it works in all cases.