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Medical face recognition

Authored by: MDT on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 09:22 AM EDT

Face recognition is unreliable because of how many
permutations you have to check.

In the case of the news pick, the doctor is not trying to
identify Random Person X from millions of online photos.
Doctor is trying identify Jane Doe from the 250 patients in
his files.

It's less like trying to hit a swinging target at 1000 yards
in a 50 mph wind with a 22 rifle and no scope, and more like
trying to hit a human shaped target on an indoor firing
range.

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MDT

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Medical face recognition - Authored by: albert on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 12:28 PM EDT
- Medical face recognition - Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 06:01 PM EDT

First to File

Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 04:50 PM EDT

I hope there's no conflict with the thread above (MS cartoons face)

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Medical face recognition

Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 04:58 PM EDT

The danger is that the doctor/nurse will trust the computer, and forget that the female patient he sees rather often has a sister whom he sees only once in a while. So the nurse doesn't verify ID and in an emergency the doctor gives the wrong treatment. Verifying identity, and matching up patients with records, is a medical function, which is why these things are done by trained nurses. Do you trust medical functions to random software?

Years ago, in the days of PDAs, a competitor came out with a video showing their portable device being used by nurses. One example they showed was writing a prescription on the device and having the device use handwriting recognition to digitize the prescription. I have nurses in my family so I recognized how insane this was. I explained the insanity to my boss and he passed it on to marketing, so they could kill our competitor's product before it killed patients.

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Medical face recognition - Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 05:35 AM EDT
- Wise advice for everyone...n/t - Authored by: albert on Wednesday, May 15 2013 @ 11:46 AM EDT

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