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http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2015/11/19/pigeons_can_be_taught_pathology_and_radiology.html

Pigeons Can Be Taught Pathology and Radiology

By Ross Pomeroy

A new study shows that pigeons can be trained to recognize breast cancer with surprising accuracy..........

In the past, pigeons have been trained to recognize letters of the alphabet, identify human emotions, and even differentiate paintings by Monet and Picasso, but evaluating medical imagery was an entirely novel foray.

Researchers primarily based out of the University of Iowa trained eight pigeons to differentiate between images of benign and malignant breast cancer slides at varying levels of magnification...........

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Source: Levenson RM, Krupinski EA, Navarro VM, Wasserman EA (2015) Pigeons (Columba livia) as Trainable Observers of Pathology and Radiology Breast Cancer Images. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0141357. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141357