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Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Computer Science

From the perspective of computer science, you've gotten a chance to work the application to cancer and to medicine in general. How far along are we from understanding the human body, biology, of being able to manipulate it in a way where we can cure some of the maladies, some of the diseases? So this is a very interesting question. And if you're thinking as a computer scientist about this problem, I think one of the reasons that we succeeded in the areas where the computer scientists succeeded is because we don't have, we are not trying to understand in some ways.

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