Radiology and Crowdsourcing

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Recently, I’ve witnessed a rise in the number of crowdsourcing jobs targeted at accomplishing tasks for the medical industry. Every once in a while I’ll be fortunate enough to run across an exceptionally intriguing job that makes use of crowdsourcing in a really unique way. Antonio Foncubierta’s crowdsourcing job is one of those unique tasks… Read more »

Crowdsourcing Scientific Research: Leveraging the Crowd for Scientific Discovery

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Lab scientists spend countless hours manually reviewing and annotating cells. What if we could give these hours back, and replace the tedious parts of science with a hands-off, fast, cheap, and scalable solution? That’s exactly what we did when we used the crowd to count neurons, an activity that computer vision can’t yet solve. Building… Read more »