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		OJFord on April 15, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital Because this non-AI function 'correctly diagnoses 100% benign cases as benign': `def is_benign(mole: Image) -> bool: return True` ...but also misdiagnoses 100% malignant cases.

potatoman22 on April 17, 2025 [–]

To contextualize, I think the tool in this article correctly diagnoses 97% benign cases as benign but misdiagnosis 22% of malignant cases.

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