Sunday, November 22, 2015

News Report: Pigeons Spot Cancer

From the BBC: Pigeons identify breast cancer 'as well as humans'

Pigeons, with training, did just as well as humans in a study testing their ability to distinguish cancerous from healthy breast tissue samples. The pigeons were able to generalize what they learned, correctly spotting tumors in unseen microscope images.

"Pigeons can distinguish identities and emotional expressions on human faces, letters of the alphabet, misshapen pharmaceutical capsules, and even paintings by Monet vs Picasso."

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