
Teaching Computers to Think
BY SUSAN CHACKO, CIT
Enter Richard Leapman’s lab at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and you’ll find a serial block-face scanning electron microscope, the size of a lab freezer, busily slicing and scanning pancreatic tissue, blood platelets, or other biological matter. In 12 hours, there will be 20,000 images of 25-nanometer-thick slices of each sample.
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