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Kent hospital first to use AI to identify infections in patients (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LLMs are not the same as neural network machine based image sorting. It's been proven more accurate than pathologists.

[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would still want a human being to verify the diagnosis before anything gets cut. ;-)

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Pathology error rates are too high, everyone should be getting a second opinion and all pathology reports should be cross-checked.