Chinese robot beats 15 doctors in the diagnosis of brain tumors

Beijing.- A Chinese artificial intelligence system won 2-0 against a team of fifteen prestigious doctors from the country in a two-round competition in which they were diagnosed with brain tumors and bruising at home. sick patients, in a competition held at the Tiantan Hospital in Beijing.

The BioMind AI system, developed by the Artificial Intelligence Research Center for Neurological Disorders at this hospital and by a team from Capital Medical University, completed in 87 minutes 87% of the correct diagnoses (out of a total of 225) case), compared to the 66% obtained by the team of doctors.

With regard to the prediction of cerebral hematoma, its accuracy was 83%, while doctors – from prestigious hospitals in the country – accounted for 63% of cases.

In both tests, the accuracy level of humans was "quite normal and even better than the average obtained in ordinary hospitals," said Gao Peiyi, head of the radiology department at Tiantan Hospital. , leader in neurology and neurosurgery

The robot has been formed over the last ten years by storing tens of thousands of images of diseases related to the nervous system, which makes it capable of diagnosing common neurological diseases such than meningioma and glioma with a precision rate of more than 90%, described Efe.

Vice President of the hospital, Wang Yongjun, said that the important thing is not to know who came out winner, because "the contest is not the only one. Intention to confront humans with technology but to help doctors learn and improve. " to those more "skeptical".

One of the participating physicians who was eliminated in the second round, Lin Yi, said that she welcomes the use of artificial intelligence, that she do not consider it a threat but as a "friend".

The jury for its part stated that artificial intelligence will never replace the professionals, but will function in the same way as the use that a driver gives to a GPS.