More funding could help, but it’s just a hard problem.
More funding could help, but it’s just a hard problem.
>... Eight independent evaluators with special expertise in the management of meningitis compared MYCIN's choice of antimicrobials with the choices of nine human prescribers for ten test cases of meningitis. MYCIN received an acceptability rating of 65% by the evaluators; the corresponding ratings for acceptability of the regimen prescribed by the five faculty specialists ranged from 42.5% to 62.5%. The system never failed to cover a treatable pathogen while demonstrating efficiency in minimizing the number of antimicrobials prescribed.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/36660...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3666074
https://aimi.stanford.edu/events/bridging-ais-proof-concept-...
I would suggest that a lot of medical questions are now answered by Dr. Google which implicitly does a lot of behavioral modeling / statistics in their machine learning and is already very successful.