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Marketwatch25: She survived breast cancer. Now her AI tool could help you skip annual mammograms.

As an MIT computer-science professor, Regina Barzilay was used to living on the bleeding edge of innovation, teaching computers to understand words in the nascent field of natural language processing. But when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, she was thrust into a different and, as she describes it, “really backwards” technological world.
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Jameel Clinic AI faculty lead Regina Barzilay is named in TIME's 2025 TIME100 AI list. Photo by Alex Ouyang.
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