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sungam • yesterday at 8:01 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I think the reason I am surprised is that they are exceptionally good at interpreting images generally and there are tens of thousands of labeled skin cancer images on the public internet so I had assumed the general image interpretation abilities would transfer


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ang_cire • today at 12:24 AM

Having actually worked with teams doing medical vision models for cancer detection, I can tell you that the datasets we used were not public, and they came from studies and private hospital partnerships that LLM companies don't have access to.

jrflo • yesterday at 9:13 PM

The specialized medical diagnosis models are trained on that same data though, and also use neural networks. The more noteworthy story will be when they overtake specialized models.

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