"Unquestionably, the s approach the diagnostic task with a level of intelligence, flexibility, and common sense that is difficult to duplicate with a computer. Thus far, research findings have demonstrated only that computers are the best savants when it comes to executing mathematically rigorous steps toward the solution of narrowly defined problems. Nonetheless, the radiologist's approach is not devoid of limitations. There are well-documented errors and variations in the human interpretation of ... Some study findings even indicate that the same errors are being made now, as they were in earlier decades ..."
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Georgia Tourassi
is a Greek-American physicist, biomedical engineer, professor of radiology, expert on computing in biomedicine, and director of the National Center for Computational Sciences at the (ORNL). Born and educated at the undergraduate level in Greece, she holds 13 U.S. patents. Among her many honors, she was elected in 2017 a Fellow of the the (SPIE) and in 2020 a Fellow of the (AAAS).
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