{"id":696,"date":"2013-10-30T11:17:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/?p=696"},"modified":"2018-10-27T05:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T10:53:38","slug":"ibm-watson-in-medical-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/30\/ibm-watson-in-medical-education\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Watson in medical education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM recently posted this video which suggests the relevance of Watson&#8217;s capabilities to medical education.  The demo uses cases such as occur on the USMLE exam and Waton&#8217;s ability to perform evidentiary reason given large bodies of text.  The &#8220;reasoning paths&#8221; followed by Watson in presenting explanations or decision support material use a nice, increasingly popular graphical metaphor.  <\/p>\n<p>One intriguing statement in the video concerns Watson &#8220;asking itself questions&#8221; during the reasoning process.  It would be nice to know more about where Watson gets its knowledge about the domain, other than from statistics alone.  As I&#8217;ve written previously, IBM openly admits that it avoided explicit knowledge in its approach to Jeopardy!  <\/p>\n<p>The demo does a nice job with questions in which it is given answers (e.g., multiple choice questions), in particular.  I am most impressed, however, with its response on the case beginning at 3 minutes into the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07XPEqkHJ6U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM recently posted this video which suggests the relevance of Watson&#8217;s capabilities to medical education. The demo uses cases such as occur on the USMLE exam and Waton&#8217;s ability to perform evidentiary reason given large bodies of text. The &#8220;reasoning paths&#8221; followed by Watson in presenting explanations or decision support material use a nice, increasingly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/30\/ibm-watson-in-medical-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IBM Watson in medical education&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[535,14,16,1],"tags":[632,897,547,631,630],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-learning","category-natural-language","category-uncategorized","tag-clinicial-decision-support","tag-educational-technology","tag-ibm-watson","tag-usmle","tag-watson-paths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}