IDG Contributor Network: Thinking algorithm ready to take on conventional medicine

Deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, could be in the medical mainstream in months.San Francisco software startup Enlitic is preparing to send software engineers to about 80 medical imaging centers in Australia and Asia.  These “forward deployed engineers,” as company founder Jeremy Howard calls them, will install a deep-learning algorithm on IT systems, called Picture Archiving and Communications (PAC) systems. Once on board, the algorithm will begin learning how