In this month's edition of the Scientific American, Brittany Wenger from Lakewood Ranch, Florida was featured as this year's winner of Google's Science Fair.
Brittany Wenger "wrote a computer program known as a neural network to help detect patterns in a large database of breast tissue samples. Traditional biopsies of the breast are painful, but a less invasive type of biopsy known as a fine needle aspirate (FNA) is also less conclusive. Wenger’s program, which she put through an incredible 7.6 million trials to test it for accuracy, helps doctors successfully detect more than 99 percent of malignant tumors using FNA."
You can read more on Scientific American's website:
Google Science Fair: Winners tackle breast cancer, hearing loss and water quality
