Brittany Wenger
Brittany Wenger (born 1994) is an American student who was the first-place winner of the Google Science Fair in 2012. Wenger currently studies at Duke University.[1]
For her entry into the science fair, Wenger trained a statistical model to predict signs of breast cancer given nine features from the breast tissue samples as an input representation.[2][3] Wenger used neural networks to train the develop the statistical model.[4] — that is currently 99.1 percent sensitive to malignancy.[5] As the first-place winner, she received a $50,000 scholarship.[6] Wenger spoke about her software at the TEDx Atlanta conference in 2012.[7] In 2013, representing Out-of-Door Academy, she was a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search and was awarded 8th place.[4]
References
- ↑ Zhang, Jenna (27 January 2014). "TIME's Thirty under Thirty Brittany Wenger talks research, Duke experience". Duke Chronicle. Duke Student Publishing. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- ↑ Roach, John. "17-year-old girl trained a statistical model to detect breast cancer". NBC News. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
- ↑ "17-year-old programs artificial 'brain' to diagnose breast cancer" .Fox News. 25 July 2012.
- 1 2 "Intel Science Talent Search 2013 Finalist Brittany Wenger Out-of-Door Academy Florida." Society for Science and the Public.
- ↑ Kelley, Michael. "This 17-Year-Old Built An Artificial 'Brain' That Can Accurately Diagnose Breast Cancer". Business Insider, 24 August 2012.
- ↑ Kuchment, Anna (2012). "Google recognizes teens for tackling hearing loss breast cancer and water quality". Scientific American. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
- ↑ "Brittany Wenger". TEDx Atlanta., March 2012.
External links
- The Out-of-Door Academy
- Brittany Wenger's app
- "'Stroke of Genius: Brittany Wenger ". Thunderstrokes.