Moffitt Cancer Center: Why we are building the first machine learning department in oncology

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Issam El Naqa, PhD
Chair, Department of Machine Learning, Moffitt Cancer Center
Dana Rollison, PhD
Vice president, chief data officer, associate center director of data science, Division chief, quantitative science, Moffitt Cancer Center
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Chair, Department of Machine Learning, Moffitt Cancer Center
Dana Rollison, PhD
Vice president, chief data officer, associate center director of data science, Division chief, quantitative science, Moffitt Cancer Center

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