Anything related to AI coming out of IBM should be viewed with a huge dose of skepticism. They're honestly one of the worst offenders in overselling the capabilities of their products, bordering out outright fraud. There is certainly a lot of promise to the application of recent computer vision algos on medical imaging data, but I wouldn't bet much on IBM being anything close to a leader in this space.
I don't doubt what you say. Just want to point out that this is published in a peer-reviewed journal, so hopefully the academic community will judge it objectively.
OTOH, do even radiologists (or anyone else) can predict cancer at all before it happens? I thought that radiologists diagnose cancer once it is already there.
> do even radiologists (or anyone else) can predict cancer at all before it happens?
Sure, some of the time it's easy.
Let's all recall the words of my mother's medical school instructor, "There's a bit of cancer in everyone's prostate".
(The context was a lab exercise in which medical students were supposed to find which of a set of slides of prostate tissue was cancerous. The reminder was necessary because many of the slides were cancerous, just not at levels high enough to be considered medically alarming.)
Predicting that a man will develop prostate cancer is basically the same thing as predicting that he'll experience old age.
