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“The company has an exclusive deal to use the cancer center’s vast archive of 25 million patient tissue slides, along with decades of work by its world-renowned
by QML 8y ago
“The company has an exclusive deal to use the cancer center’s vast archive of 25 million patient tissue slides, along with decades of work by its world-renowned pathologists.”
In general, the world is better off with more information: why not open source the data if better cancer diagnosis is the goal?
- ble 8y agoWhy indeed. The article also stated that Google had twice attempted to broker access to the dataset and twice been turned away.
- itronitron 8y agoReminds me of the time I was browsing through a scrap yard in a large mid-western city for art supplies and happened across an oil drum filled to the top with discarded chest x-rays. Kind of disturbing both from the sheer number of xrays as well as the deformities visible in many of the images. Point being, hospitals have a very poor track record regarding their disposal of medical equipment and records so a motivated individual could probably easily find this data in a recycling center.