Machine Learning is Everywhere

All,

I got my JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) Ophthalmology in the mail.

It has 9 articles.

2 are about machine learning:

  1. “Development of Validation of a Deep Learning System to Detect Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy Using Funds Photographs.”

  2. “Accuracy of Kalman Filtering in Forecasting Visual Field and Intraocular Pressure Trajectory in Patients with Ocular Hypertension.”

Of course, this deals with complex unstructured data in human beings. Not necessarily a normal distribution, BTW.

The numbers that can be put in spreadsheets—involving human behavior in the stock market–could never be understood using machine learning.

Obviously. So no concerns about keeping an edge at P123.

Here in rural Kentucky, however, I could not even calculate the power of a lens implant (for cataract surgery) without using machine learning. I would literally be sued out of practice for not using it. Rightfully so.

No machine learning in LASIK, however. That robot that fires the laser to get rid of near-sight….Okay, maybe a little machine learning there.

-Jim