Politico July 26, 2024
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Human doctors largely bested an AI model in a new study that involved a head-to-head patient diagnosis challenge.
Where do docs still shine? Showing their work.
How so? The National Institutes of Health and Weill Cornell Medicine researchers tasked doctors and an AI model with completing 207 challenge quizzes in which they looked at clinical images and a short description of a patient’s symptoms, then selected a diagnosis from multiple choice answers.
The nine doctors in the study had different medical specialties, including dermatology, gastroenterology and infectious diseases. The doctors answered questions in their specialty open-book style, where they could use outside material, including online sources, and closed-book style, in which they had no help.
Researchers asked the...
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