Machine Learning and the Fight Against Cancer - DZone Big Data

I've written before about the apparent shift in healthcare whereby making sense of the vast quantities of data produced within the system is key to successful treatment of patients. Nowhere is this moreso than in cancer care. For instance, a team from UCL utilized deep learning earlier this year to more accurately identify cancer cells. This trend is continued with a second study, which aims to make sense of the cancer data currently sitting in the cancer registry program that's coordinated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This database has records of cancer incidences across the US, but the curation of it can often be a hugely time-intensive process as it requires manual editing and annotation from experts for each file.