Home The Data Science Bowl Passion. Curiosity. Purpose. Presented by Booz Allen and Kaggle

Lung cancer is one of the most common types of cancer, with nearly 225,000 new cases of the disease expected in the U.S. in 2016. Using a data set of high-resolution scans of lungs provided by the National Cancer Institute, participants will develop artificial intelligence algorithms to accurately determine when lesions in the lungs are cancerous. This will dramatically reduce the false positive rate that prevents low-dose CT scans from being widely used for lung cancer detection. Competition results have the potential to advance our understanding of how all types of cancer develop and spread in the body. They'll also free radiologists to spend more time with patients.