A Mammogram Made By NASA [Science]

It is a NASA image. It’s not a galaxy or a Saturnian moon. It’s a breast mammogram made with an analogous tools used to reinforce the photographs taken by their Earth observation satellites. And it helps doctors detecting cancer earlier.

The software is now included in a system called MED-SEG. On the left there’s the standard mammogram image. On the proper, the image post-processed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s enhancing algorithms. The analysis tools artificially color the black and white pictures to aid doctors spot tumors more easily.

According to Dr. Thomas Rutherford, director of gynecologic oncology at Yale University, the ” use of this computer-based technology could minimize human error that occurs when evaluating radiologic films and may allow for earlier detection of abnormalities in the tissues being imaged.”

I don’t learn about you, but helping to detect cancer earlier and better is a further great reason to keep the distance program going strong. [ Flickr ]

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