Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!mcmillan From: mcmillan@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: computer ECG, FDA testing of AI programs Message-ID: <673@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 23:31:33 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.673 Posted: Sat Mar 10 23:31:33 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 07:04:41 EST References: <17229@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 18 The correct way for a cardiologist to "take responsibility" for a computer ECG analysis is to overread EVERY SINGLE ANALYSIS. The cardiologist looks at tracing printouts of the ECG monitored signals, and determines, to a degree of accuracy he finds ethically acceptable, that the computer analysis is reasonable. Please bear in mind that in all cases of pathology where the patient will be treated, the cardiologist will probably go over both the tracings, and a computer matrix of measurements of key parts of the wave forms, with a fine toothed comb. It is usually very easy for a cardiologist to take a quick look at a tracing and determine whether the patient's heart is abnormal. - Toby Robison allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison princeton!eosp1!robison (NOTE! NOT McMillan; Robison.)