Cancer Data Science Pulse

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Building Infrastructure that Works—Lessons Learned from Project MATCH

NCI’s Project MATCH initiative helped pioneer the concept that people in clinical trials could be matched (based on their genetic makeup) to medications specifically tailored to their needs and situations. Here, the CBIIT team shares the lessons they learned in modernizing and automating the platform for tracking and managing these patients, along with their samples, and other research data.

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NCI’s IMMUNOtron—The Making of a Machine Learning (ML) Robotics Tool

ML models feed on large amounts of quality data, which can be scarce. Meet IMMUNOtron, a ML-robotic platform that’s helping NCI researchers generate and process high-quality data to better understand the immune system’s response to cancer.

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Digital Twins for Cancer—Not If, But When, How, and Why?

Wondering if you’ll ever see a “digital twin” for cancer? Although creating a twin is a daunting task, NCI’s Dr. Eric Stahlberg says we already have many elements in place to serve as a digital twin foundation. All that’s needed now is a shift in thinking and a team science approach to bring a true cancer digital twin to life.

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Your Favorite CBIIT Data Science Reads From 2024

Celebrate the advancements in cancer data science as we highlight our top five most-read blogs of 2024!

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Synthetic Data Helps Counter Lack of Diversity in Data

In this blog, NCI’s Center for Cancer Health Equity, Dr. Laritza Rodriguez, looks at one technique to help counter a lack of diversity in your data set. See how Synthetic Minority Oversampling Techniques (SMOTE) can help bring your biomedical research data into better balance.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Unexplained: Five Tips for Evaluating an AI Product

Are you interested in using artificial intelligence (AI) in your research or clinical practice but feeling unsure about where to start? Researchers from NCI’s Center for Cancer Research, Drs. Baris Turkbey and Stephanie Harmon, offer five tips that can get you started.

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Why We Love Diverse Data

We’re celebrating “Love Data Week” by featuring scientists who love data—especially diverse data. In this blog, scientists tell why they love diverse data and offer tips for increasing diversity in your research data.

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Living on the Edge—How Video Games Helped Shape the Future of Cancer Care

Did you know that the same technology that makes your video games more realistic is helping to power important advances in cancer research? This latest blog by Dr. Eric Stahlberg looks at edge computing and how it’s helping to transform cancer research and care.

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The 12 Blogs of CBIIT—Your Favorite Data Science Reads from 2023

Read the blogs that topped our charts in 2023, and see if your favorite made #1!

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Data as a Gift—A Common Theme from NCI’s First Office of Data Sharing Symposium

Patients play a pivotal role in cancer research by generously giving the “gift” of data. In this blog, Dr. Jaime Guidry Auvil of NCI’s Office of Data Sharing looks closely at that gift and what it means for everyone involved in cancer research—scientists, people with cancer, their families, and generations to come.

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