IBM's Watson Is Now A Fully Functional Cancer Specialist!
Watson, named after IBM's first president Thomas J. Watson, is an amazingly powerful artificial intelligence computer system that is capable of answering questions posed in natural language. The system was launched in 2011 and won a game show! Now, IBM along with WellPoint Inc. and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has trained it to be an oncologist.
According to IBM press release Cancer is spreading faster than ever and they want to contribute to stop it. For more than a year, the researchers at WellPoint and Memorial Cancer Center trained Watson for thousands of hours to teach it how to process, analyze and interpret the meaning of complex clinical information using natural language processing. During the training process, IBM used 600,000 pieces of medical evidence, two million pages of text from medical journals and clinical trails.
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One more interesting thing here is that Watson will provide its service through cloud too, so that oncologists can access the system remotely and can decide how best to care for an individual patients. Watson has come a long way since its launch gaining a whooping 240% improvement in system performance and 75% reduction in physical requirements.
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According to IBM press release Cancer is spreading faster than ever and they want to contribute to stop it. For more than a year, the researchers at WellPoint and Memorial Cancer Center trained Watson for thousands of hours to teach it how to process, analyze and interpret the meaning of complex clinical information using natural language processing. During the training process, IBM used 600,000 pieces of medical evidence, two million pages of text from medical journals and clinical trails.
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One more interesting thing here is that Watson will provide its service through cloud too, so that oncologists can access the system remotely and can decide how best to care for an individual patients. Watson has come a long way since its launch gaining a whooping 240% improvement in system performance and 75% reduction in physical requirements.
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