IEEE July 17, 2019
Machine learning algorithms that combine clinical and molecular data are the “wave of the future,” experts say
A man walks into a doctor’s office for a CT scan of his gallbladder. The gallbladder is fine but the doctor notices a saclike pocket of fluid on the man’s pancreas. It’s a cyst that may lead to cancer, the doctor tells him, so I’ll need to cut it out to be safe.
It’ll take three months to recover from the surgery, the doctor adds—plus, there’s a 50 percent chance of surgical complications, and a 5 percent chance the man will die on the table.
An estimated 800,000 patients in the United States are incidentally diagnosed with pancreatic cysts each year, and doctors...
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