With some training and selective food reinforcement, pigeons performed as well as humans in categorizing digitized slides and mammograms of benign and malignant human breast tissue, the researchers found. The pigeons were able to generalize what they had learned, so that when the researchers showed them a completely new set of normal and cancerous digitized slides, they correctly identified them.
Pigeons Can Be Trained To Read Medical Images
Published November 20, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Breast Cancer, Davis, digitized slides, Dr. Pigeon, Edward Wasserman, mammogram, medical imaging, medical research, medicine, pigeons, trained pigeons, University of California, University of Iowa, wtf
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