Google Science Fair's Grand Prize For App To Diagnose Breast Cancer

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A 17 year old from Florida,Brittany Wenger won the Grand Prize in the Google Science Fair. Her contribution was highly appreciated as she brought the best the useful features of Biology and Computer Science as an attempt to provide solution to one of the greatest worries for the women of this era, Breast Cancer.Her program is named "neutral network", it is used to produce a replica of the human brain. It will be equipped with information and will be ultimately be helpful in reacting to the "complex calls" and diagnosing Breast Cancer.

Her program works on the data from

"fine needle aspirates," a minimally invasive procedure that, unfortunately, is often one of the least precise diagnosis processes

Brittany Wenger's main effort goes into changing the level of accuracy in identifying the tumours, which her program reportedly does as close as 99%. Moreover, she has got 700 samples with her to test the success of her program.

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