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From: mcmillan@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: computer ECG, FDA testing of AI programs
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Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 23:31:33 EST
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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
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					(NOTE! NOT McMillan; Robison.)