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Author: Eric Oermann
Eric Karl Oermann is an assistant professor of neurosurgery, radiology, and data science at NYU. He studied mathematics at Georgetown and philosophy with the President’s Council on Bioethics, and abandoned graduate studies in group theory to study artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and neurological surgery while completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Verily Life Sciences and serving as an advisor at Google-X. He has published over one-hundred manuscripts spanning machine learning, neurosurgery, and philosophy in journals ranging from The American Journal of Bioethics to Nature and is dedicated to studying human and artificial intelligence to improve human health.
Largest metastatic cancer dataset now available at no cost to researchers worldwide
The NYUMets team, led by Dr. Eric Oermann at NYU Langone Medical Center, is collaborating with AWS Open Data, NVIDIA, and Medical Open Network for Artificial Intelligence (MONAI), to develop an open science approach to support researchers to help as many patients with metastatic cancer as possible. With support from the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program, the NYUMets: Brain dataset is now openly available at no cost to researchers around the world.