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Brittany Wenger (born 1994) is a student who was the first-place winner of the Google Science Fair in 2012. Wenger currently studies at Duke University. [1]

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. [2] [3] She used neural networks to train the develop the statistical model, [4] which is currently 99.1 percent sensitive to malignancy. [5] As the first-place winner, she received a $50,000 scholarship. [6]

Wenger spoke about her software at the TEDx Atlanta conference in 2012, [7] and TEDx CERN conference in 2013. [8] In 2013, representing Out-of-Door Academy, she was a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search and was awarded 8th place. [4]

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References

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  3. "17-year-old programs artificial 'brain' to diagnose breast cancer" .Fox News. 25 July 2012.
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  6. Kuchment, Anna (2012). "Google recognizes teens for tackling hearing loss breast cancer and water quality". Scientific American. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
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  8. Brittany Wenger at TEDx CERN, YouTube