Neural Networks Can Help Spot Breast Cancer, and Cats

Congratulations go to high school student Brittany Wenger, winner of the Google Science Fair 2012 for her Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer. Neural networks made big news last month when researchers at Google announced that their 16,000 processor system discovered cats on YouTube. This may have given some people the wrong impression of neural networks, which are not toys used for gratuitous purposes. Ms. Wenger's project demonstrated that a well-designed and correctly-configured neural network can correctly identify cancerous cells based on standard medical sample data. That the project was done by a 17 year old makes the system even more impressive. Great work, Brittany!
→ More - 17-Year-Old Builds Neural Network Capable of Detecting Breast Cancer (geek.com)
→ See also - A Massive Google Network Learns To Identify -- Cats (June, 2012 - npr.org)