BSC tests a pioneering system for immediate response to major disasters in Mexico's National Earthquake Drill
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The experiment, which will take place on 19 September, demonstrates the potential of high-performance computing infrastructures for emergency calculations, warning systems and urgent responses to extreme natural events.
Thanks to the exceptional allocation of supercomputing resources, unprecedented seismic simulation maps will be generated covering half of Mexico, one of the most seismically active areas on the planet.
In pancreatic cancer, knowing if there is metastasis is key to deciding whether to operate or not. Nowadays, a significant number of patients undergo unnecessary invasive surgeries because their metastasis was not detected in time.
"Our algorithm accurately predicts metastasis using images that are already routinely obtained," says Malats.
The article is published in the journal 'GUT'.
The algorithm will be tested in hospitals thanks to a project that has received nearly 800,000 euros in funding from the Spanish Department for Digital Transformation.
The authors propose a formal mathematical measure to assess the versatility (simplicity and adaptability) of parametric frequency and severity distributions before use. They compute and compare the measure across common risk-model distributions and show, via simulations, that Inverse Gamma can outperform Pareto Type II in hypothesis tests, helping mitigate idiosyncratic overfitting in risk analysis.