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Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by mrwaffle »

jawns wrote: post #97
themantalope wrote: post #34

radiologist here - example images don't look great

I'm scratching my head about why they would venture into an entirely different field like this, one with tremendous regulatory hurdles, if they know (and surely they must know) that radiologists are going to pan the results. It's like if LeBron announced he was switching to bowling and was going to revolutionize the sport, then rolled a gutter ball.

I'm pretty sure, like most things, it's better to wait and see what's built rather than take issue with their short marketing video.

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by moralestapia »

jrflowers wrote: post #139
sberens wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-...

Exactly. Don’t even try to get into medical imaging until you’ve made a heap of cash off a Discord waifu image bot

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Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by maz1b »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #118
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…

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This made me spit my coffee out! Thanks for helping me start my day with a laugh. No comment otherwise :-P

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by reverius42 »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #118
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…

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I read the site and it seemed pretty clear? It's a 3d, transparent, high res image of your whole body reconstructed from the wave data from a large number of high frequency ultrasound scans. But it's also a high end spa in San Francisco that softly scans your body. Then, you uh, do as you want with the data (presumably show it to your doctor, who will be perhaps bemused)?

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by ddxv »

It's interesting to see an AI company need to pivot so hard in order to find revenue. I guess this means there is very little easy money to be made as more and more models get created, shared and downloaded by others.

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by klausa »

nihonde wrote: post #160
klausa wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a world of difference between the health checkups we get in Japan, and something like a full-body MRI/CT. You're not arguing in good faith when you equate those.

Are you joking? 人間ドック is absolutely more than a "health checkup". Maybe do some reading: https://medical.kameda.com/general/en/ningendock/what/ > The Ningen Dock is a comprehensive health checkup system that includes a battery of tests, including blood tests, chest X-rays, and ultrasound scans, among others as well as advanced diagnostic tests as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computerized Tomography (CT) or Endos…

That is not the same as the annual mandatory health check.

Maybe your employer pays for you to get a more comprehensive checkup by default and you're unaware of this?

But the ones vast majority of population here gets do not include MRI or CT or Endoscopy.

And, _even then_; specific checkups when you're looking for _specific things_ are still very different things than a full-body MRIs.

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by jordanb »

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!

It seems like the radiology equivalent to a blood testing machine that could be deployed to walgreens and detect 100 diseases with a finger prick.

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by jrflowers »

moralestapia wrote: post #172
jrflowers wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Don’t even try to get into medical imaging until you’ve made a heap of cash off a Discord waifu image bot

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Made some bomb spam musubi earlier, thinking about a neutrino detector for the home now

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by swyx »

Veedrac wrote: post #167
Aurornis wrote: post #147

> enough to give regular, monthly scans to a billion people. There is a part of me that thinks it would be cool to get cheap full body scans. I like being able to see inside of myself. I can think of a lot of situations where the low-fidelity images coming out of this (they're not good compared to real medical imaging, if you've ever looking at MRI/CT up close) could be useful for coarse analysis of certain condition…

This style of argument has always bothered me, because the correction to misdiagnosis or mistreatment is not to stop looking, it's _git gud_. For sure, we have to be realistic about what processes will systematically have error, and if we can't stop a doctor from doing bad things with a piece of data we should shield them from it, but the tools to make scalable, calibrated risk estimates based on large data dumps is…

exactly correct. if a bit of knowledge is dangerous, the correct response is not to choose ignorance, it is to get more knowledge about what dangers arise and problemsolve some more there. run it out a few hundred years and it is then no longer dangerous, and strictly better than ignorance.

Re: Midjourney Medical

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Post by runako »

This is interesting & ambitious!

Not a physician, I wonder about the general efficacy of random scans vs more boring traditional things like bloodwork. That is: is there more clinical power in doing blood + urine labs monthly or body scans like this?

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