Schmidhuber: 1st backprop-trained CNN for vision from 1988
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-08-28
Jürgen Schmidhuber shared historical context on the first modern backprop-trained CNN. Published in Japan in 1988 by Wei Zhang et al., the technology was later brought to Silicon Valley. It earned 1998 FDA PMA approval as radiology's first AI, reading over 10 million mammograms per year in the US.
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