medical-diagnosis

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The Pathfinder project rebuilt the same pathology-diagnosis task from rule-based reasoning onto Bayesian-network inference; its expert's blind verdict of improvement came at the Dempster–Shafer-to-simple-Bayes step

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · AI-history, pathfinder, bayesian-networks, david-heckerman, eric-horvitz
Does the Pathfinder Part I paper verbatim support the rule-based → simple-Bayes switch and the expert's accuracy verdict — and where are the magnitude figures?

question answered 2026-08-10 · pathfinder, david-heckerman, eric-horvitz, bayesian-networks, medical-diagnosis