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News: http://news.sciencemag.org/health/20...-human-experts
Paper: https://www.plos.org/wp-content/uplo...1-Levenson.pdf
Pigeons spot cancer as well as human experts
It may sound like a bird-brained idea, but scientists have trained pigeons to spot cancer in images of biopsied tissue. Individually, the avian analysts can't quite match the accuracy of professional pathologists. But as a flock, they did as well as trained humans, according to a new study appearing this week in PLOS ONE.
Interesting. Who needs supercomputers or doctors when you can have a flock of pigeons?!
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2015-11-20, 11:19 AM #1The Unstoppable Force
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Pigeons spot cancer as well as human experts
Originally Posted by derpkitteh
Originally Posted by derpkitteh
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2015-11-20, 11:21 AM #2Ojou-sama
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I'd rather eat them
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2015-11-20, 11:30 AM #3Brewmaster
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No offense to the avians, but i prefer to get told by a human being that i'm going to die from cancer than the caw-ing of a pidgeon.
I like my coffe like my mages.
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2015-11-20, 12:26 PM #4Brewmaster
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The real question is : how the hell this study got there ?
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