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17-year-old girl builds artificial ‘brain’ to detect breast cancer
« on: August 24, 2012, 07:07:37 PM »
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17-year-old girl builds artificial ‘brain’ to detect breast cancer

Artificial neural networks are essentially computer programs coded to think like the brain, she explained. Only they can detect patterns that are too complex for mere humans.

“I taught the computer how to diagnose breast cancer,” Brittany Wenger, the Lakewood Ranch resident, told me today.

“And this is really important because currently the least invasive form of biopsy is actually the least conclusive, so a lot of doctors can’t use them.”

Wenger wanted to create a way for more doctors to use the minimally invasive procedure, called Fine Needle Aspirate, in order to ease the process of having lumps examined.
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That is awesome.
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Re: 17-year-old girl builds artificial ‘brain’ to detect breast cancer
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2012, 07:53:53 PM »
There are times when great discoveries are made because a young person looks a different direction.
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