This is a NASA image . It ’s not a wandflower or a Saturnian moon . It ’s a titty mammogram made with the same tools used to heighten the icon taken by their Earth observation satellites . And it help Dr. observe Crab to begin with .
The software is now let in in a system called MED - SEG . On the left there ’s the common mammogram image . On the right , the range post - processed by NASA ’s Goddard Space Flight Center ’s enhancing algorithm . The analytic thinking tools artificially colourize the black and clean picture to aid doctors spot tumors more easily .
harmonize to Dr. Thomas Rutherford , conductor of gynecologic oncology at Yale University , the “ manipulation of this computer - base technology could downplay human error that occur when evaluating radiologic film and might leave for earlier detection of abnormalities within the tissue paper being imaged . ”
I do n’t eff about you , but helping to detect cancer in the first place and better is yet another peachy reason to keep the blank space political platform go impregnable . [ Flickr ]
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