IBM has started a project named WATSON which was intended to support the doctors during diagnosis and treatment of the patients...Its functionality is presently dedicated to Oncology
( Branch of sicence which deals with cancer cells) and in future it can enter the other fields too..
Watson's brain consists of 90 dedicated servers at IBM's research facility..
What actually WATSON intended to do???
WATSON is not a substitute for a doctor its just a Doctor's friend which assists him during the treatment..It keep on tracking the updates regarding oncology and store those in it servers..soon after its training period Watson will be able to examine a patient’s history and test results, search the medical literature, and make a recommendation for the patient’s treatment. To make the task manageable, the computer program’s studies have so far been limited to oncology:
Watson is studying lung and breast cancer now and will start on several other cancer types soon.It can comb through thousands of similar cancer cases and examine patient outcomes, review the most recent findings from hundreds of medical journals, and make a recommendation within no time.
Martin Kohn, chief medical scientist of care delivery systems at IBM Research, says a similar process is now under way at Sloan-Kettering. “It will be given cases and treatment guidelines, and it will give its suggestions,” Kohn says. Just as in “Jeopardy!,” Watson will come up with a ranked list of possible solutions and display its confidence level for each. “Then one of the oncologists will say, ‘Yes, what Watson suggested was reasonable’ or ‘Watson was off the wall,’ ” Kohn says. In that way, Watson will learn, and it will establish its credibility.
( Branch of sicence which deals with cancer cells) and in future it can enter the other fields too..
Watson's brain consists of 90 dedicated servers at IBM's research facility..
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What actually WATSON intended to do???
WATSON is not a substitute for a doctor its just a Doctor's friend which assists him during the treatment..It keep on tracking the updates regarding oncology and store those in it servers..soon after its training period Watson will be able to examine a patient’s history and test results, search the medical literature, and make a recommendation for the patient’s treatment. To make the task manageable, the computer program’s studies have so far been limited to oncology:
Watson is studying lung and breast cancer now and will start on several other cancer types soon.It can comb through thousands of similar cancer cases and examine patient outcomes, review the most recent findings from hundreds of medical journals, and make a recommendation within no time.
Martin Kohn, chief medical scientist of care delivery systems at IBM Research, says a similar process is now under way at Sloan-Kettering. “It will be given cases and treatment guidelines, and it will give its suggestions,” Kohn says. Just as in “Jeopardy!,” Watson will come up with a ranked list of possible solutions and display its confidence level for each. “Then one of the oncologists will say, ‘Yes, what Watson suggested was reasonable’ or ‘Watson was off the wall,’ ” Kohn says. In that way, Watson will learn, and it will establish its credibility.
Right now, the Sloan-Kettering team is giving Watson cases that have all the information needed to devise a treatment plan, says Ari Caroline, Sloan-Kettering’s director of strategic initiatives and quantitative analysis, who has been overseeing Watson’s machine learning process at the cancer center. A next step is to give the program incomplete cases and get Watson to notice what’s missing
“Watson could actually prompt the user,” says Caroline. “It could say, ‘I can give you an answer with 30 percent confidence right now, which is not very useful. In order to give a more confident answer, you would have to provide the molecular pathology information around these particular tests.’ ”
It remains to be seen whether Watson can build on its success, adding new realms of practical expertise, one after the other. The project shows the fascinating potential of machines that can speak our language, but it’s also a reminder that we don’t have to bow down to our computer overlords just yet.
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