Soon I suppose all medical knowledge can be put in such a form, and gadgets at home can make the chemical analysis. There will still be need for hospitals and doctors but much less so. I ran the data of the remaining 240 or so patients, whose files I had put aside, through the algorithm. The agreement was remarkable. In about 95 percent of the cases, it led to an accurate diagnosis. The algorithm described in simple terms essential points of the thought process of a doctor making the decision, and it showed which parameters describing the patient’s condition were most relevant to the diagnosis. There were only four of them, narrowing down the initial slate of forty or so. For example, the algorithm showed the importance of the index of peripheral resistance that Sergei had developed, measuring the flow of blood through the kidney. That this parameter played such an important role in the decision-making was, by itself, an important discovery. All of this could be used in further research in this area. Other doctors could apply the algorithm to their patients, test, and perhaps fine-tune it to help make it more efficient.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 08:54:07 +0000
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