UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., July 16 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
HERSHEY, Pa. - Usually, training artificial intelligence (AI) to detect cancer takes a team of experienced researchers and graduate students. But at Penn State, a high school intern had the opportunity to step up to the challenge and join a pilot project funded by Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). With Shaunak "Shaun" Dalal, a recent graduate of Hershey High School, as its youngest member, the research team has been using AI to improve diagnosing and treating head and neck cancers.
A personal connection to the research
Dalal's journey into AI started in ninth grade after an introductory computer science class sp...