Right. This technology is very dangerous if used to compress & then 'uncompress' medical images. I used to be a bit more cautious but I think if the model was specifically trained on x-rays or some type of medical images, it could do a very good job. I think the original image should always be shown in addition to the AI upscaled image. Having both the original plus a AI upscaled image that is 'correct' 90% of the time could be very useful.
When it comes to things like distinguishing a shadow on a scan, I think AI might actually be better 'detecting' whether something is a real shadow or just very similar to a shadow. I think it's just one of those things where AI up-scaling improves stuff ~80% of the time but is worse the other ~20%. The fundamental issue may become the same with self driving cars; people trust the AI too much and become inattentive themselves.
While you certainly can't add 'correct' information that doesn't already exist in an image, the upscaling could correctly make existing information more obvious. Assuming that the human brain functions pretty much like AI (or rather the opposite) then at some point AI will become as competent which means that eventually with enough training & tweaking it should be as good or better than having a second human perspective.
> Right. This technology is very dangerous if used to compress & then 'uncompress' medical images.
It could actually be useful for compression as a predictor, but only if you also store the residual so that the true original image can be reconstructed.
When it comes to things like distinguishing a shadow on a scan, I think AI might actually be better 'detecting' whether something is a real shadow or just very similar to a shadow. I think it's just one of those things where AI up-scaling improves stuff ~80% of the time but is worse the other ~20%. The fundamental issue may become the same with self driving cars; people trust the AI too much and become inattentive themselves.
While you certainly can't add 'correct' information that doesn't already exist in an image, the upscaling could correctly make existing information more obvious. Assuming that the human brain functions pretty much like AI (or rather the opposite) then at some point AI will become as competent which means that eventually with enough training & tweaking it should be as good or better than having a second human perspective.