Prospects for Computer-Aided Diagnosis

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A recent Journal article1 reports one of several recent investigations of the potential value of computers in augmenting clinicians' diagnostic ability. The importance of diagnosis in the delivery of appropriate medical care has prompted extensive research on diagnostic aids such as pathognomonic tests. Studies of computer-aided diagnosis, a logical development of this research, are potentially more general in their implications because they establish formal methods of inference for assessing the meaning of diagnostic clues. It is a process of deduction that is sought, rather than a specific diagnostic indicator. In this vein, the authors note that there is no inherent . . .

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