Why Medicine Needs Deep Learning - Brendan Frey

My research on deep inference and learning reaches back to the wake-sleep algorithm, published in 1995, and the paper that David MacKay and I wrote in 1996 showing that belief propagation in graphs with cycles can be used for accurate inference. Most of my time is now spent on genomic medicine. Deep learning will transform medicine, but not in the way that many advocates think. The amount of data times the mutation frequency divided by the biological complexity and the number of hidden variables is small, s