After a procedure (unrelated to my heart), the anesthesiologist overseeing me suggested I go see a cardiologist. They noticed some tell-tale signs of a specific heart disease while they were monitoring the EKG readouts. I'm happy to say that anesthesiologist made my life a hell of a lot better because of that suggestion.
Not something I would have expected a machine to tell me after a procedure completely unrelated to my heart.
Why do you think so, if you have the right data with many different algorithms running on it (even the one you are not interested in) i am sure it will uncover those. I am not doubting the hunch your Doctor felt due to his expertise was useless, but with continuous data ingestion and analyses coupled with as granular as the features can get this can only improve
In fact complicated algorithms with so many streams of data that are probably not directly shared by specialists until it is needed may uncover new things even before traditional Doctors spot it
Because the programmers building the anesthesiologist machine learning model probably didn't think to include that check in the model, as they don't have the appropriate training.
But with sufficient compute power, couldn't you just have the machine equivalents of a cardiologist, anesthesiologist, neurologist, etc all looking at your information at the same time?
It seems easier to scale compute power than to scale doctors considering how long doctors take to train.
Of course, being able to get a machine to a doctor's level is not easy!
but it should (unless the medical / insurance industry pulls their shenanigans - which is a real risk) be a lot cheaper to have a machine examine you. just like we have blood pressure machines at the drugstore. we could have checkup-supplement kiosks that could check your vitals cheap/free and tell you the same thing.
what I'm excited for with AI + medicine is how many poor people will be able to get _some_ level of healthcare where they were previously getting none. These programs aren't free, but once they exist they are cheap to run. so people in 3rd world countries can get their films read, or have an AI dematology program look at their skin.
cynically though, I worry that once these AI programs get perfected they will only exist behind the worlds toughest paywall and insurance will just charge you the same fee to see a real doctor. they'll not let it run films on poor african villagers because they have to "protect their IP" or some bs.
a benefit to ML is that they can check for everything. equipment isn't here for that yet either, but I imagine it will be.
I'm assuming the 'data' for your condition was apparently in the EKG, thus there is no reason in the world an ML shouldnt have picked that up. Where as with humans, maybe you got a tired, new, or bad anesthesiologist.
if you said they made the determination by something other than the EKG, I would be more convinced the 'machine' would have missed it
Not something I would have expected a machine to tell me after a procedure completely unrelated to my heart.