4 ms·
Dogs can smell so tiny concentrations I'd be surprised to find out they could not smell ovarian cancer. Instead, the trick I imagine is to train them to care an
by jacobush 7y ago
Dogs can smell so tiny concentrations I'd be surprised to find out they could not smell ovarian cancer. Instead, the trick I imagine is to train them to care and alert a handler.
- 1_over_n 7y agoPigeons have been trained in pathology imaging for breast cancer https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141357 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
- exikyut 7y ago> ... The birds proved to have a remarkable ability to distinguish benign from malignant human breast histopathology after training with differential food reinforcement; even more importantly, the pigeons were able to generalize what they had learned when confronted with novel image sets. ... > ... However, when given a different (and for humans quite difficult) task—namely, classification of suspicious mammographic densities (masses)—the pigeons proved to be capable only of image memorization and were unable to successfully generalize when shown novel examples. ...