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I need advice to help make a decision.......
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All this discussion about Cancer or NO Cancer .
Consider my two Transperineal MRI Fusion biopsy results . And 2nd and 3rd opinions on my 2nd biopsy results .
Biopsy # 1 5 cores in the target area -- ALL NEGATIVE .
Biopsy # 2 16 cores -- 6 in the target area . ALL 6 Cores in the target area Gleason 6 .
2nd Opinion ---------------------------------------- " " " " " " " Gleason 7 (3 + 4 )
3rd Opinion ---------------------------------------- 4 Cores G6 2 Cores G7 3 + 4
Four opinions -- take your pick -- DO I HAVE CANCER ?
I predict that AI will take the interpretation out of the hands of the pathologist . As they say : " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ". It was suggested I get another 4th opinion -- I suspect I would then have five different interpretatioons .
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Wow, what a conundrum….did you have Decipher test or any other genetic scoring? Might narrow it down a bit?
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I'd modify the prediction to say that AI will automate a lot of the pathologist's work. The problem is that AI has no "common sense" — it just matches patterns in ways we can't really audit or explain, and every once in a while the match it chooses is absolutely bizarre. So while AI can uncover new patterns for a pathologist look at, in the end we'll still need the pathologist to decide which are meaningful and which are nonsense.