Brittany Wenger Explained

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.[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] She used neural networks to train the develop the statistical model,[4] which 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] and TEDx CERN conference in 2013.[8] In 2013, representing Out-of-Door Academy, she was a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search and was awarded 8th place.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Zhang. Jenna. TIME's Thirty under Thirty Brittany Wenger talks research, Duke experience. Duke Chronicle. Duke Student Publishing. 6 March 2014. 27 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140307000153/http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2014/01/27/times-thirty-under-thirty-brittany-wenger-talks-research-duke-experience#. 2014-03-07. dead.
  2. Web site: Roach. John. 17-year-old girl trained a statistical model to detect breast cancer. NBC News. 24 July 2012.
  3. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/07/25/17-year-old-programs-artificial-brain-to-diagnose-breast-cancer/ "17-year-old programs artificial 'brain' to diagnose breast cancer"
  4. http://www.societyforscience.org/sts/2013finalists/bwenger "Intel Science Talent Search 2013 Finalist Brittany Wenger Out-of-Door Academy Florida."
  5. Kelley, Michael. "This 17-Year-Old Built An Artificial 'Brain' That Can Accurately Diagnose Breast Cancer". Business Insider, 24 August 2012.
  6. Web site: Kuchment. Anna. Google recognizes teens for tackling hearing loss breast cancer and water quality. Scientific American. 24 July 2012. 2012.
  7. http://tedxatlanta.com/videos/09262012-edgeofthesouth/brittany-wenger/ "Brittany Wenger"
  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-YbJi4EPxc Brittany Wenger at TEDx CERN

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