Seeing into the future: Machine learning for personalized cancer screening

Seeing into the future: Machine learning for personalized cancer screening

Neyman Seminar
Mar 15, 2023, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Adam Yala, UC Berkeley and UCSF

For multiple diseases, early detection significantly improves patient outcomes. This motivates considerable investments in population-wide screening programs, such as mammography for breast cancer and low-dose CT for lung cancer. To be effective and economically viable, these programs must find the right balance between early detection and overscreening. This capacity builds on two complementary...