Alibaba opened up a model that spots 146 diseases in CT scans.
Alibaba's research arm Damo Academy published the model, called Damo Radar, in Science on Friday. It beat 23 of 26 radiologists at reading contrast CT scans of 18 abdominal organs. The code and the weights are on GitHub and Hugging Face for anyone to download.
Why it mattersA free expert-level reader could help hospitals that own scanners but lack radiologists. It is also the first such model anyone can inspect, so its mistakes can be found.
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