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posted by Fnord666 on Friday October 20 2017, @07:54AM   Printer-friendly
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Model developed at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could reduce false positives and unnecessary surgeries.

Every year 40,000 women die from breast cancer in the U.S. alone. When cancers are found early, they can often be cured. Mammograms are the best test available, but they're still imperfect and often result in false positive results that can lead to unnecessary biopsies and surgeries.

One common cause of false positives are so-called "high-risk" lesions that appear suspicious on mammograms and have abnormal cells when tested by needle biopsy. In this case, the patient typically undergoes surgery to have the lesion removed; however, the lesions turn out to be benign at surgery 90 percent of the time. This means that every year thousands of women go through painful, expensive, scar-inducing surgeries that weren't even necessary.

How, then, can unnecessary surgeries be eliminated while still maintaining the important role of mammography in cancer detection? Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School believe that the answer is to turn to artificial intelligence (AI).

As a first project to apply AI to improving detection and diagnosis, the teams collaborated to develop an AI system that uses machine learning to predict if a high-risk lesion identified on needle biopsy after a mammogram will upgrade to cancer at surgery.

Source: http://news.mit.edu/2017/artificial-intelligence-early-breast-cancer-detection-1017


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  • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday October 20 2017, @03:24PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Friday October 20 2017, @03:24PM (#585259) Journal

    If you're an assigned male and in the same room as another assigned male that suggests something like this during this month, a feminist holy month, what is the correct thing to do? That's an honest question.

    When that came up for me, I'd figured I'd be ok keeping my mouth shut, but apparently not. That's pretty much why I don't keep my mouth shut any more. Feminists have demonstrated to me that they have no compunction against taking revenge against any assigned male (any will do, the more powerless the better!) for the words of others—and they were in the same fucking room to witness with their own damned eyes that it wasn't me who said it.

    But that's power for you. I am without power. The man who said those things had power. Why retaliate against somebody who has power? He might retaliate right back! Instead, feminism has learned to only retaliate against people without power for the actions and words of those with power.

    Is one supposed to just leave? Can that be right? Or was I supposed to go full-blown cismale, homophobic, transphobic SJW on the blasphemer? You know, suggest that only a homosexual faggot would want to deprive women of mammograms, and then talk about how much I love tits? (Normally when a guy talks about how much he loves tits, he's being a misogynist pig who objectifies women, but from what I've seen, it's fucking bizarro world during the autumn feminist holy month, and assigned males are supposed to do this!)

    The rest is a rant I need to get off my chest (!), since every October I think about how fucking stupid I was to ever think that feminists weren't assholes, bigots, privileged cowards, and liars that can show the alt-right how to use 1920s Germany as inspiration with style!

    As I understand it, what you're guilty of, AC, is attempting to control women's bodies. What you've just posted makes you pro-rape, pro-life/anti-choice, and an all around poopy-head. (And homosexual! And dying of AIDS!) The mammogram is a sacrosanct rite of annual pilgrimage for a womyn-born-womyn (and only womyn-born-womyn) to get one's breasts squished. What you're suggesting is denying womyn-born-womyn their holy pilgrimage.

    There's also a hint of stigma in a religious sense (stigmata?) there in the pilgrimage. I can't quite put my finger on it. I don't think it's quite a red badge of courage. As usual, with feminists, identity is always constructed by something one is born as: something given (and thus without value), not something one has earned through their individual actions. So it cannot be a red badge of courage. It's most similar to the concept of menstrual huts. Perhaps the radiologist's office is a modern menstrual hut when it's a mammogram being performed. That would also explain the highly toxic, completely irrational simmering apoplexy towards trans women when it comes to mammograms.

    Ugh, just 11 more days until the holy month is over. Then I can switch my editors back to my usual pink theme. I can only assume that an assigned male using a pink pastel light-on-dark theme for a text editor during the autumn holy month is blasphemy.

    (Double ugh. Just a couple more years until my doctor is going to want me to get a mam er, certainly not one of those, since those are for womyn-born-womyn only, and it would be blasphemy and sexual perversion, according to feminists, to suggest I would need one!, but probably a radiological study of my chest area. Holy fuck am I not looking forward to needing to invade hallowed ground even more sacrosanct than a bathroom.)

    (Maybe my best bet is to review what you've posted, go over other things that come up, particularly the WHO's recommendation that mammograms are only needed once every two years starting at age 50 instead of 40 iirc, and conclude that there really is no compelling reason for me to attempt to invade, infiltrate, and metaphysically rape the holy pilgrimage.)

    tl;dr Feminists during the autumn holy month, when presented with inconvenient science, remind me of a Dalek screaming “Exterminate! Exterminate the blaspheme-er!”