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Most people probably know facial recognition as the thing that unlocks your smartphone. But this technology could also be used as a tool in the fight against cancer, according to a new study.

“It then becomes much harder to interpret,” Pillay says. “So, what we did was develop a way to summarize those, using patterns.”

“It says, ‘OK, the closest similarity that this reconstructed face looks like is to X, Y, or Z person,’” says Pillay. “We’ve taken something that’s really complex and summarized that into a catalog, or a blueprint,” Pillay says.

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