Memory Matters: Teaching Medical AI to Remember Like a Pathologist
Memory is a boring word until the diagnosis is wrong. A pathologist does not look at a whole-slide image as a flat picture. They see morphology, compare it with disease categories, recall grading criteria, filter out misleading patterns, and decide which pieces of old knowledge deserve attention in the current case. That last part is easy to understate. Expertise is not only having knowledge. It is knowing when to activate it. ...