Brittany Wenger (born 1994) is a student who was the first-place winner of the Google Science Fair in 2012. Wenger currently studies at Duke University.
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. She used neural networks to train the develop the statistical model, which is currently 99.1 percent sensitive to malignancy. As the first-place winner, she received a $50,000 scholarship.
Wenger spoke about her software at the TEDx Atlanta conference in 2012, and TEDx CERN conference in 2013. In 2013, representing Out-of-Door Academy, she was a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search and was awarded 8th place.
References
- Zhang, Jenna (27 January 2014). "TIME's Thirty under Thirty Brittany Wenger talks research, Duke experience". Duke Chronicle. Duke Student Publishing. Archived from the original on 2014-03-07. 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.
- ^ "Intel Science Talent Search 2013 Finalist Brittany Wenger Out-of-Door Academy Florida." Archived 2013-07-30 at the Wayback Machine 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" Archived 2014-03-07 at the Wayback Machine. TEDx Atlanta, March 2012.
- Brittany Wenger at TEDx CERN, YouTube
External links
- The Out-of-Door Academy
- Brittany Wenger's app
- "'Stroke of Genius: Brittany Wenger ". Thunderstrokes.
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