Computer accurately identifies and delineates breast cancers on digital tissue slides
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 - 14:31
in Mathematics & Economics
A deep-learning computer network was 100 percent accurate in determining whether invasive forms of breast cancer were present in whole biopsy slides. The network correctly made the same determination in each individual pixel of the slide 97 percent of the time, rendering near-exact delineations of the tumors.