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Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by klausa »

nihonde wrote: post #85
verandaguy wrote: post #4

I'm sorry, a billion full-body scans a month? For what possible reasons? Are people going to be doing these things recreationally? Cause otherwise you're talking about scanning the entire world's population, including the very young, the very old, the mobility-impaired, and those without easy access to US-based facilities (i.e.... people who are part of the small fraction of the global population who do not live in t…

"What possible use could there be for doing this?" I've encountered this attitude before, and I always find it perplexing that there are people who are annoyed by, even hostile to, the idea of frequent health telemetry. What possible use? How about giving people greater visibility inside their own bodies without having to navigate the labyrinth of the healthcare machine and without having to justify themselves to act…

Because false positives have a tremendous emotional (and, depending on your healthcare system, also monetary) cost to patients.

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by 999900000999 »

maz1b wrote: post #90

I had to check the date after seeing the headline, and again after opening the page. Thought it was April Fools. Regardless, as a doctor and full stack engineer, I'm looking forward to learning more about their methodologies, their approaches, but I don't think this is going to be displacing MRIs or remotely close, based off the cursory initial glance. If their vision is to be able to provide end users with more acti…

Is the idea to use AI magic to detect cancer and other bad things?

I could imagine this getting cheap enough that your local gym has one and you get checked once every 3 months.

Curing cancer is one of the only things I’d take a pay cut to do.

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by a-dub »

my first reaction: this pivot makes no sense at all to me.

my second reaction: maybe it does? did they hire up an army of physicists to make better diffusion models or something and they actually have people on staff who can do this?

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by ajyoon »

jdw64 wrote: post #39

Why is everyone so negative about this? Getting a CT or X-ray and then having AI do early screening on cases that doctors can pass along doesn't seem like a bad idea to me.

People are responding negatively to what looks very much like vaporware from a company stepping way outside its domain into medical imaging with a bizarrely positioned announcement post. Medical imaging is a very active field of research with many brilliant minds working on it. If this were truly an MRI killer, they would not be announcing it as a spa.

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by sberens »

EduardLev wrote: post #101
sberens wrote: post #65

I don't understand how people can hate on this. It's probably the most novel & ambitious consumer health device ever? Plus they're doing it fully bootstrapped. Let them cook!

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great, just confirm you also have >>$200MM revenue[0] and have also previously founded a hard tech startup!

[0] https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/midjourney-revenue-...

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by dumbmrblah »

verandaguy wrote: post #4

I'm sorry, a billion full-body scans a month? For what possible reasons? Are people going to be doing these things recreationally? Cause otherwise you're talking about scanning the entire world's population, including the very young, the very old, the mobility-impaired, and those without easy access to US-based facilities (i.e.... people who are part of the small fraction of the global population who do not live in t…

Who reads these scans and who assume liabilities for missed reads?

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Post by lovich »

tptacek wrote: post #41
sandworm101 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lol. This isnt for everyone. This is for the rich. They are going to sell these things for personal use, for installation in homes. Take the top 100,000 families in the US, those that can afford a home unit. Scans then become as normal as taking a bath. We are well on our way to that classic scifi trope of the villian being introduced as they soak a special tub of goop. (Dune, GOTG, Star Wars)

It's really not OK to victimize the rich like this either.

I can’t tell if this is serious or a top tier joke.
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