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Nell'album di cui fa parte questa foto ci sono già diversi post dedicati alle sorprendenti capacità cognitive dei piccioni, che…
Nell'album di cui fa parte questa foto ci sono già diversi post dedicati alle sorprendenti capacità cognitive dei piccioni, che…
Throwback Thursday — Did you know that the famous pigeon article by our Vice Chair of Strategic Technologies Richard Levenson…
Pigeons have also been trained to peck at cellular and radiographic images of cancer, at the same accuracy as a person.
Nell'album di cui fa parte questa foto ci sono già diversi post dedicati alle sorprendenti capacità cognitive dei piccioni, che…
We might train dogs to be able to discriminate between different objects - "get your ball" vs "get your stuffed toy". But what…
Les pigeons seraient compétents en imagerie médicale ! Une étude publiée sur une revue scientifique montre que des pigeons…
The birds proved to have a remarkable ability to distinguish benign from malignant human breast histopathology after training…
Your next mammogram may be read by a pigeon.
Las palomas tan buenas como los patólogos en identificar cáncer de mama. Las palomas que han sido entrenadas por tan sólo unas…
Pigeons as oncologists: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141357
Pathologists
We have heard for a while that some dogs have been trained to smell certain diseases. Well apparently, pigeons can be trained…
Voici un article scientifique surprenant dans le respecté PLOS One (Impact Factor à 3.23 quand même), dans lequel des…
Pigeons as good as pathologists at identifying #breastcancer. Pigeons who have been trained for just a few weeks are able to…
PLoS One. 2015 Nov 18;10(11):e0141357. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141357.
With just a few hours training, a pigeon can learn to distinguish cancerous from noncancerous cells on a biopsy slide. After a…
Some areas don't have enough radiologists. Anyone think this is a good idea?: "Pathologists and radiologists spend years…
Pigeons (Columba livia) as Trainable Observers of Pathology and Radiology Breast Cancer Images, by Levenson RM ,et al, in PLOS…
Looks like pigeons will soon be taking over from pathologists and radiologists.
The future: Pigeons v…
The future: Pigeons v…
Surely one of the best studies I've read all week... Some dudes just taught a bunch of pigeons to detect cancer cells. Very…
Retweeted Richard Levenson (@rml52): Teaching pigeons to do pathology and radiology: https://t.co/1HZeUPlloC. (Spoiler: they're…