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Yet another press release that fails to reference the study it's talking about. Not to mention giving no quantitative details about its lead ('Trounced'? By how

Yet another press release that fails to reference the study it's talking about. Not to mention giving no quantitative details about its lead ('Trounced'? By how much?). The study is "Predicting non-small cell lung cancer prognosis by fully automated microscopic pathology image features" by Kun-Hsing Yu et al. It's open access: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160816/ncomms12474/full/ncomms12474.html http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160816/ncomms12474/full/nc...

daveguy 10y ago
Computers trounce* pathologists... * by an un-quantified amount using only histology slides -- a limitation not enforced in actual medical practice.
- cicero19 10y ago
  yeah.. seriously.. what academic journal would accept that kind of statement.
  - ChristianBundy 10y ago
    Nature, apparently.
    - leereeves 10y ago
      Nature Communications, which publishes a dozen articles every working day. (2191 so far in 2016)
    - delazeur 10y ago
      Nature and Science appear to accept a lot a "controversial" articles that don't really live up to their reputation for rigor.
frozenport 10y ago
Indeed, this is a press release and not journalism.