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PAIGE
A pathologist reviews
a digital slide of a
biopsy taken from a
prostate-cancer patient on
FullFocus, Paige's digital
pathology viewer.
STARTUP
AI Diagnostic
Tech Is
Revolutionizing
Cancer Diagnosis
Paige's software analyzes tissue-sample images
BY PRACHI PATEL
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE was not
on Leo Grady's mind when he was
applying for college in the early 1990s.
He was interested in human interaction,
linguistics, and psychology, and
he initially chose the unusual double
major of anthropology and physics.
But his desire to understand how the
human brain works led him to switch
from physics to electrical engineering
and ultimately to pursue a signal
processing degree at the University of
Vermont, in Burlington.
" All of this eventually led me to AI, "
Grady says. " AI is a mix of psychology,
engineering, computer science, and a
little bit of philosophy. It really caught
my imagination. "
The IEEE member is now the chief
executive of Paige, in New York City.
The company uses machine learning
to help pathologists make faster, more
accurate cancer diagnoses from images
of tissue samples.
The startup hopes to help doctors
catch prostate and breast cancer
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