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BY LISA STIFFLER on
Breast-cancer screening using mammograms certainly saves lives, but too many women receive false positives from the test and — even worse — some cancers are missed.
Now Seattle researchers and healthcare providers are leading a global, X-prize style contest that could ultimately result in big improvements in breast-cancer diagnoses. They’re helping organize the crowdsourced event that asks commercial and nonprofit organizations to develop algorithms that use deep machine learning to more accurately identify breast cancers.