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I suspect that you could dodge some of the liability issues in this case.

Yeah, if Joe American goes in to MGH for a CT, pays north of 5k(after insurance), and learns that some unfeeling robot, rather than a tired radiologist, misdiagnosed him, it'll be malpractice lawyer time.

However, in areas where the current standard of care often doesn't include pathologist inspection of cells; because there aren't any qualified pathologists, or they are too expensive for the majority of patients, I suspect you'll find a much greater willingness to embrace the idea that you can perform the diagnosis with a glorified webcam(wasn't there some story on slashdot a little while back about some research group hacking microscope optics onto cellphone cameras?) and a nickel worth of CPU time...

It sounds crass when you say it in so many words; but what you can get away with in medicine is very much a product of what the alternative would be. If the current standard is sufficiently dire, even mediocrity counts as lifesaving. If it just so happens that machines are actually really good at this classification problem, all the better.

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