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    Posted: 01/28/2005    Reviewed: 09/01/2006
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Slide 36 : From Patterns to Screening Tool previousnext

Researchers used the protein patterns they had collected from the ovarian cancer patients along with an artificial intelligence computer program to create and train a new bioinformatics-based screening tool. The program was designed to recognize the presence or absence of ovarian cancer in blood samples of unknown cancer status. 

From Patterns to Screening Tool

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