在小小的“工作室”中,一只鸽子凝视着屏幕上粉紫色调的染色切片图像,这些图像来自患者病变的乳腺组织。触屏的两边,分别显示着黄蓝两色的选择按钮,一边代表良性,一边代表恶性。此时,“鸽子医生”要作出它的判断。这样的一幕看起来有些荒诞:辨别组织切片本应该是训练有素的病理医生的工作才对,鸽子又能懂什么呢?不过,在最近发表的一项研究中,科学 In a little “studio,” a pigeon stares at the pink and purple dyed stained images of the screen, from the patient’s diseased breast tissue. Both sides of the touch screen, respectively, showing the choice of yellow and blue buttons, while representing the virtuous, while representing the vicious. At this point, “pigeon doctor ” to make its judgments. Such a scene may seem absurd: identifying tissue slices should have been the work of trained pathologists, and what do pigeons know? However, in a recently published study, Science