One of the challenges when imaging the breast is to distinguish benign lesions from those that are malignant. With ultrasound, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Tumour’
Google Meets Breast Cancer Challenge
Four years ago Google bought a British artificial intelligence (AI) company called DeepMind for half a billion US dollars. The founders studied […]
Releasing the Brakes on the Immune System
Last week the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to James […]
NCI Launches Plans for 2020
A decade ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were successful in […]
Cancer in the Crosshairs
Research Contracts & Innovation (RCI) is the department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that’s responsible for signing research […]
Welch Found Guilty of Plagiarism
Two years ago we featured a paper by Gilbert Welch (seen right, © The Dartmouth Institute) published by the New England Journal […]
Predicting the Return of Breast Cancer
Clinicians do not currently have a reliable way to predict which patients treated for hormone receptor-positive (HR+) breast cancer run […]
Reducing Breast Density
It is well established that women with dense breast tissue (seen at right) have an increased risk – of four- to six-fold […]
Making a Pact
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and Washington University in St Louis have just published a paper in Nature Communications in […]
An Electronic Idiot Savant?
The title of today’s blog is taken from a recent opinion piece in The Economist that considers whether artificial intelligence (AI) will […]