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CHRONIC. Researchers show that animal conditioning can be surprisingly effective in detecting certain cancer cells. Explanations.
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By Jean-Francois Bouvet
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L’IA, the dog and the ant… It sounds like a fable by La Fontaine; it is more prosaically about detecting cancerous cells. If the use of artificial intelligence is still marginal in the hospital, it is expected to experience rapid growth, for the diagnosis of breast cancer for example. Available in large numbers, radiological images allow training to detect anomalies. The algorithms of deep learning (deep learning) are capable of managing huge masses of data that no human brain can fully comprehend. Using this technology on nearly 90,000 mammograms, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed an algorithm a few years ago that was supposed to predict the onset…
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