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Brain Cancer
New findings reported from University of London describe advances in brain cancer
July 15th, 2008
According to recent research from London, the United Kingdom, "eTUMOUR is acquiring a large database of brain tumor H-1 MR spectra to develop automated pattern recognition methods and decision support system (DSS) for tumor diagnosis. Development of accurate pattern-recognition algorithms requires spectra undistorted by artifacts, low signal-to-noise, or broad lines. eTUMOUR currently uses panels of expert spectroscopists to subjectively grade spectra as being acceptable or unacceptable." "Automated quality control (QC) would be more satisfactory for several reasons: 1) to provide a reproducible objective classification of spectrum quality; 2)...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-07-15)
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