Brittany Wenger (born 1994) is a pediatrician who was the first-place winner of the Google Science Fair when she was a high school student in 2012.
For her entry into the science fair, Wenger trained a statistical model to predict signs of breast cancer given nine features from the breast tissue samples as an input representation."17-year-old programs artificial 'brain' to diagnose breast cancer" .Fox News. 25 July 2012. She used neural networks to train the develop the statistical model,"Intel Science Talent Search 2013 Finalist Brittany Wenger Out-of-Door Academy Florida." Society for Science and the Public. which is currently 99.1 percent sensitive to malignancy.Kelley, Michael. "This 17-Year-Old Built An Artificial 'Brain' That Can Accurately Diagnose Breast Cancer". Business Insider, 24 August 2012. As the first-place winner, she received a $50,000 scholarship.
Wenger spoke about her software at the TEDx Atlanta conference in 2012,"Brittany Wenger" . TEDx Atlanta, March 2012. and TEDx CERN conference in 2013.Brittany Wenger at TEDx CERN, YouTube In 2013, representing Out-of-Door Academy, she was a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search and was awarded 8th place.
Wenger studied at Duke University for her undergraduate degree and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for her medical degree.
References
External links The Out-of-Door Academy Brittany Wenger's app "'Stroke of Genius: Brittany Wenger ". Thunderstrokes.