Computing Community Consortium Blog

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


Archive for July 8th, 2011

 

Interpolated Data for Speedy Cancer Detection

July 8th, 2011 / in Research News / by Erwin Gianchandani

Magnetic resonance imaging is an attractive tool for detecting breast cancer, but its slow speed and poor resolution limit its viability. With hardware and software improvements, those problems are fixable: on the hardware end, multiple coils arranged in an array produce more data with less noise. Combined with an interpolation algorithm, that large amount of data can be rapidly processed to better serve patients: To create sharp images quickly, Kyung Sung, a researcher working with [Brian Hargreaves, principal investigator and assistant professor of radiology at Stanford], has developed a process that does more with less information. A conventional breast MRI scan takes up to an hour because of the large amount […]