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‘Self-trained’ deep learning to improve disease diagnosis

March 5, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

self-trained computer learning

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | March 4, 2021 Work by computer scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and IBM Research on deep learning models to accurately diagnose diseases from X-ray images with less labeled data won the Best Paper award for Computer-Aided Diagnosis at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference on Feb. 19. The technique, which ... Continue Reading »

Computer analyses of cough sounds reveal infection by COVID

February 25, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

cough sounds reveal COVID

By Doug Ramsey, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego | February 5, 2021 Millions of people already use Fitbit and other devices to monitor and track a variety of personal health metrics. Now, a researcher at the University of California San Diego has published data indicating that analyzing voice signals can detect COVID-19 infection when compared with sample audio ... Continue Reading »

Buyer beware: Massive experiment shows why ticket sellers hit you with last-second fees

February 25, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

drip pricing

By Morgan Foy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley | February 9, 2021 There’s a reason that online ticket sellers hit you with those extra fees after you’ve picked your seats and are ready to click “buy.” Pure profit. A massive field experiment by Berkeley Haas Prof. Steven Tadelis with the online ticket marketplace StubHub concluded that so-called ... Continue Reading »

Oldest DNA sequences reveal how mammoths evolved

February 18, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

oldest DNA sequence

By Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz | February 17, 2021 An international team of scientists has sequenced DNA recovered from mammoth remains as old as 1.2 million years. The analyses show that the Columbian mammoth that inhabited North America during the last ice age was a hybrid between the woolly mammoth and a previously unknown genetic lineage of mammoth. The study, ... Continue Reading »

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