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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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Data Sharing Advocacy—How a Cancer Survivor Seeks to Enhance Data Sharing to Better the Patient Experience

Mr. Steve Friedman of NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences’ Surveillance Research Program shares how his survivorship of testicular cancer impacted his decision to pursue the cancer data science field.

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NCI Funding Helps AI Researchers Gain Global Insight on Cancer

Meet Drs. Ajay Aggarwal and Anant Madabhushi, two grantees funded by NCI’s Center for Global Health’s Affordable Cancer Technologies (ACTs) Program. These ACTs-supported grantees are using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop tools that can be used in a variety of conditions and health systems around the world.

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Theranostics and AI—The Next Advance in Cancer Precision Medicine

If you can see it, you can treat it. In this blog, Dr. Baris Turkbey, senior clinician in NCI’s Molecular Imaging Branch, Center for Cancer Research, explores the field of theranostics. He describes how artificial intelligence and data are helping researchers “see” cancer in a new way, resulting in a more precise way of targeting cancer treatment.

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Using Cancer Data Science to Advance Your Research

How can data science support your cancer research? Explore this helpful quick start guide to find out! We’ll show you an overview of how data science enhances cancer research and how you can get started applying it to your work.

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