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Predicting the Future — Big Data, Machine Learning, and Clinical Medicine

Ziad ObermeyerDepartment of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of MedicineEzekiel EmanuelDepartment of Health Care Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2016en
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Abstract

The algorithms of machine learning, which can sift through vast numbers of variables looking for combinations that reliably predict outcomes, will improve prognosis, displace much of the work of radiologists and anatomical pathologists, and improve diagnostic accuracy.

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