IBM's Watson will soon be another resource available to doctors in the fight against lung cancer. IBM announced today that, so far, Watson's artificial mind has been filled with over 600,000 pieces of medical evidence. Watson has also ingested over two million pages of text from medical journals and clinical trials. All told, IBM's cognitive computing system is capable of sifting through more than 1.5 million patient records (spanning several decades) as it researches the best treatments for a given patient. Obviously when it comes to cancer, Watson aims to help physicians pinpoint the option most likely to prove successful. Doctors will be able to tap into this knowledge via a commercial, cloud-based "advisor" application, avoiding the...
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