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I'm working on software that assists in cancer diagnoses. We apply a healthy serving of computer vision and a touch of machine learning to high resolution imag
by spartango 13y ago
I'm working on software that assists in cancer diagnoses.
We apply a healthy serving of computer vision and a touch of machine learning to high resolution images (10Gpx) of cancer tissue.
Hopefully we'll be able to make diagnosis faster and more accurate, doing our small part to save lives.
- heyimwill 13y agoThat sounds incredibly cool, but as someone who lost their sister to cancer I wish this would've existed earlier.
- spartango 13y agoI'm so sorry to hear it. This is why we're working in cancer. We all work as fast as we can, but I've already seen too many cases with poor prognoses. The hope is that in growing this technology, we can catch cancers earlier when they are more treatable.
- heyimwill 13y agoThanks, she was five so a lot of stuff was going on in her body which meant they couldn't really catch it in time. Is there anywhere I can follow the project?
- spartango 13y agoCurrently we don't have that much to show publicly as we're working primarily with doctors; we need to validate our technology properly before it gets anywhere near patients or the public eye. With that said, if you shoot me an email (see profile) I'm happy to answer questions and perhaps more.
- davedx 13y agoHow did you get into this field, out of curiosity?
- spartango 13y agoSomewhere between my main interests in molecular+systems biology and my work in microscopy and software(building and using), I gained an appreciation for biomedical imaging techniques. From there, much hard work learning from oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, and technicians to figure out what we could do to enhance their work with imaging technologies.