Select symptoms, watch Bayesian probability update live, tune detection thresholds, and discover why a false negative in medicine can cost a life โ the highest-stakes AI application!
Patient describes symptoms. AI cross-references against a database of millions of clinical cases to rank possible conditions.
Each new symptom updates the probability of each diagnosis. More symptoms = narrower, more confident diagnosis.
The decision threshold balances false positives (unnecessary treatment) vs false negatives (missing real disease).
CNNs analyse X-rays, MRIs, and retinal scans โ often surpassing human radiologists in detection accuracy.
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P(Disease|Symptoms) โ P(Symptoms|Disease) ร P(Disease). Each new symptom multiplies the prior probability.
Precision = of all positives flagged, how many were real? Recall = of all real cases, how many did we catch?
In cancer screening, a false negative is catastrophic โ the patient doesn't get treatment. So recall must be very high.
DeepMind's AI detects 50+ eye diseases from retinal scans with 94% accuracy โ better than most ophthalmologists.
AI doesn't replace doctors โ it flags cases for human review. The final diagnosis is always a human's responsibility.
Medical AI needs patient data to train. Who owns it? Who can access it? HIPAA and GDPR try to answer this.