Young talent competitionNational winner of 'Jugend forscht 2019' chosen
Germany's best young researchers in the 54th national 'Jugend forscht' competition have been chosen. Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in the young talents' projects. The winners from the specialist areas and the special prize winners in a picture gallery.
2019 national prize in the 'Working world' category for Tara Moghiseh (17):
Leukemia patients need to have their white blood cells checked regularly. This is expensive and time-consuming. Tara Moghiseh is convinced that AI can make these analyses faster and cheaper without sacrificing accuracy. The young researcher programmed algorithms that recognize different types of white blood cells based on certain characteristics and then transfer what they have learned to unknown blood samples. Her leukocyte classifier can distinguish and count the five main types of blood cells with an accuracy of around 97%. For maximum reliability, however, the self-learning neural network needs far more blood samples to train.