computationalhealthcare

I am a researcher in Medical / Healthcare AI, and currently developing a Caffe like framework for learning from publicly available large claims dataset.[1] I actually have a very pessimistic outlook. I think outside of few specific applications in Radiology and maybe pathology, AI/ML is unlikely to succeed in Medicine. Even Deep Mind which started its health division by building a Non-AI app. The major issue in medicine is figuring out the right kind of problem/intervention/interface. Worse a lot of research in this field (outside of radiology) is pure hype. It typically involves researchers teaming up with their friends in university associated hospital to publish studies on private datasets which can never be reproduced. Why worry whether the problem definition is correct or clinically meaningful when you can claim anything and the co