Brittany Wenger, founder of Cloud4Cancer, found out firsthand the impact a cancer diagnosis can have on a woman and her family when her cousin was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Determined to make the process better, Brittany created Cloud4Cancer, a computer program that teaches the cloud how to diagnose breast cancer by using artificial intelligence to read and interpret data about cancer cells and help determine whether or not a mass is benign or malignant. The program uses an artificial neural network to detect patterns across the nine indicators that signal a malignant mass.
Just like a human brain that learns by repetition, the program “learned” to diagnose breast cancer through repeated trials. After a series of 7.6 million trials, the program was proven to diagnose more than 99 percent of cancer patients correctly. The app is currently in beta use at two hospital and Brittany has opened it up to the medical industry with the hope that more doctors around the world will enter their data sets, improving the network’s accuracy and, in turn, the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis.
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Duke chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.