A group of Stanford researchers says it has built an algorithm that can diagnose pneumonia in chest x-rays better than the average human radiologists.
The group, which includes deep learning researcher Andrew Ng, developed the algorithm using more than 112,000 chest x-rays released by the National Institutes of Health in September. A little over a month later, the algorithm could identify 14 types of medical conditions and diagnose pneumonia better than a group of four radiologists.