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Jacob Flanders is President of Flybridge VI & VP Product @ USRetina. Previously Superconductive Health, Vicinitas Cancer Care, Kinsail, US Naval Research Lab & DARPA Grand Challenge. hello at jacob.vi

Microsoft Applies Machine Learning to Cancer Treatment

By Jacob Flanders in Machine Learning in Cancer Care on 22 Sep 2016

Microsoft is taking their Machine Learning prowess and applying it to research into cancer care. How Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are working to ‘solve‘ cancer [http://news.microsoft.com/stories/computingcancer/] While some of their approaches are at the basic science level, many are applicable to a practicing oncologist.…

Machine Learning in Cancer Care

By Jacob Flanders in Machine Learning in Cancer Care on 12 Sep 2016

Machine Learning (ML) is a technique to train computers to identify patterns instead of explicitly telling them what those patterns are. If you want to teach a machine-learning system to recognize a cat, you don't tell it to look for whiskers, ears, fur, and eyes. Instead, you show…

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