Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jun 2018
Google is training machines to predict when a patient will die
19 June 2018 - The advances coming from the Medical Brain team give Google the chance to break into a brand new market - something co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have tried over and over again.
A woman with late-stage breast cancer came to a city hospital, fluids already flooding her lungs. She saw two doctors and got a radiology scan. The hospital's computers read her vital signs and estimated a 9.3% chance she would die during her stay.
Then came Google's turn. An new type of algorithm created by the company read up on the woman - 175,639 data points - and rendered its assessment of her death risk: 19.9%. She passed away in a matter of days.
