Can AI help doctors avoid missed diagnoses? A new study suggests yes

Humans still have important roles to play in medicine, experts stress

Doctors review medical scans. AI could help improve diagnoses.

Clinical reasoning is a process doctors go through as they consider patient symptoms, come up with possible diagnoses, order tests and then weigh the results. When fed text descriptions of all these stages of the process, AI was often able to pinpoint the correct diagnosis more accurately than human doctors, new research shows.

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In some of medicine’s toughest cases, the hardest part isn’t choosing the right diagnosis.