Space-age planet mapping technique could be used to help fight cancer - Manchester Evening News
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But now scientists at the University of Manchester are putting it to another, more down to earth, use - helping to fight cancer.
Specialists from the university and the Manchester Cancer Research Centre hope the precise number-crunching method - known as a machine learning approach - will help assess the effectiveness of tumour treatments.
Initial findings suggest it could be four times as accurate as conventional techniques at measuring changes in tumours.