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UnfairRepresent
03/25/23 5:48:44 PM
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In the oldest and most prestigious young adult science competition in the nation, 17-year-old Ellen Xu used a kind of AI to design the first diagnosis test for a rare disease that struck her sister years ago.

With a personal story driving her on, she managed an 85% rate of positive diagnoses with only a smartphone image, winning her $150,000 grand for a third-place finish. Kawasaki disease has no existing test method, and relies on a physicians years of training, ability to do research, and a bit of luck.

Symptoms tend to be fever-like and therefore generalized across many different conditions. Eventually if undiagnosed, children can develop long-term heart complications, such as the kind that Ellens sister was thankfully spared from due to quick diagnosis.

Xu decided to see if there were a way to design a diagnostic test using deep learning for her Regeneron Science Talent Search medicine and health project. Organized since 1942, every year 1,900 kids contribute adventures.

She designed what is known as a convolutional neural network, which is a form of deep-learning algorithm that mimics how our eyes work, and programmed it to analyze smartphone images for potential Kawasaki disease.

However, like our own eyes, a convolutional neural network needs a massive amount of data to be able to effectively and quickly process images against references.

For this reason, Xu turned to crowdsourcing images of Kawasakis disease and its lookalike conditions from medical databases around the world, hoping to gather enough to give the neural network a high success rate.

Xu has demonstrated an 85% specificity in identifying between Kawasaki and non-Kawasaki symptoms in children with just a smartphone image, a demonstration that saw her test method take third place and a $150,000 reward at the Science Talent Search.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/17-year-old-wins-150000-in-science-talent-search-for-remarkable-way-to-diagnose-pediatric-heart-disease/

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https://i.imgur.com/L78TZO8.jpg

Xu want it? Xu got it!

That's incredible :)

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catfan2008
03/25/23 5:49:57 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
$150,000 grand


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COVxy
03/25/23 5:51:12 PM
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These awards are mostly not a good thing, tbh.

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UnfairRepresent
03/25/23 5:53:02 PM
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COVxy posted...
These awards are mostly not a good thing, tbh.
Why not?

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DigitalCamera
03/25/23 5:53:23 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
for a third-place finish

lol git gud scrub

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COVxy
03/25/23 5:55:01 PM
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They're mostly priviledge awards. Whose parents are well connected enough to get a hs student in a lab space where a graduate student will "supervise them", which usually means giving them a project that is 99% complete, having them do a small task for it, and then writing it up for the competition.

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Letsago
03/25/23 5:58:26 PM
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Kirby's Cook ability is a disease?

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UnfairRepresent
03/25/23 5:59:44 PM
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COVxy posted...
They're mostly priviledge awards. Whose parents are well connected enough to get a hs student in a lab space where a graduate student will "supervise them", which usually means giving them a project that is 99% complete, having them do a small task for it, and then writing it up for the competition.
This sounds like needless cynacism to me.

Like people who respond to Bill Gates trying to wipe out malaria by complaining about billionaires.

This girl used her smartphone. There's no reason to accuse her of a silver spoon conspriacy

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COVxy
03/25/23 6:02:10 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
This sounds like needless cynacism to me.

Like people who respond to Bill Gates trying to wipe out malaria by complaining about billionaires.

This girl used her smartphone. There's no reason to accuse her of a silver spoon conspriacy

I've been in several labs that have hosted hs students for this competition, and others like it. It's direct experience my dude.

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UnfairRepresent
03/25/23 6:13:55 PM
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COVxy posted...


I've been in several labs that have hosted hs students for this competition, and others like it. It's direct experience my dude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_anecdote

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COVxy
03/25/23 6:15:04 PM
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You know better than to try to drag me into an argument. Nobody has time for your disengenous bullshit.

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UnfairRepresent
03/25/23 6:16:21 PM
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COVxy posted...
You know better than to try to drag me into an argument. Nobody has time for your disengenous bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

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COVxy
03/25/23 6:18:14 PM
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I've never seen a "legitimate" one, there probably aren't any, and if there are they don't get far in these competitions because the winners submit graduate level side projects as their submissions.

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UnfairRepresent
03/25/23 6:19:45 PM
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Because he personally hasn't experienced one he considers legitimate, therefore none exist.

And if you question if any exist, he will attack you personally and insult you.

Even though this is very clearly one.

Very level headed

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COVxy
03/25/23 6:32:47 PM
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I think most people don't understand how much of an uneven playing field science is, and how much early opportunaties like this drive success, and how much these early opportunities purely depend on who your parents were. I've spent a lot of time thinking about equity in science, and working towards it. And these competitions tend to exemplify the worst if it.

It would be harmless if it were just these competitions. But these competitions influence chances to get into certain univerities, scholarships, and even early independent funding as a grad student. It ripples through the system.

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