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GB_RN

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17. Actually...

Reply to flvegan (Reply #4)

Sun Apr 5, 2026, 06:26 AM

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AI has been proven to be more accurate in diagnosing medical imaging than a human. For example, AI imaging diagnostic software can detect colon polyps or small tumors at an earlier point than the human radiologists who (as study controls) were tested against the same images.

AI isn’t the be-all, end-all for everything, but this is one area where it’s demonstrably better.

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