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londons_explorer t1_jcy0jf1 wrote

Reply to comment by londons_explorer in [P] TherapistGPT by SmackMyPitchHup

Cool tech demos can't exist in any remotely medical field for this reason.

I think that's part of the reason that medical science progresses so slowly compared to other fields.

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currentscurrents t1_jczjxbb wrote

Data is really hard to get because of privacy regulations too.

There are millions of brain MRI scans sitting in hospital databases but nobody can use them without individually asking each patient. Most published datasets are only a couple dozen scans, and plenty are N=1.

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