{"id":188989,"date":"2024-05-09T09:23:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/tetris-inspired-radiation-detector-uses-machine-learning"},"modified":"2024-05-09T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:23:54","slug":"tetris-inspired-radiation-detector-uses-machine-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/tetris-inspired-radiation-detector-uses-machine-learning","title":{"rendered":"Tetris-inspired radiation detector uses machine learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tetris-inspired-radiation-detector-uses-machine-learning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the tetromino shapes in the classic video game Tetris, researchers in the US have designed a simple radiation detector that can monitor radioactive sources both safely and efficiently. Created by <a href=\"https:\/\/qm.mit.edu\/\">Mingda Li and colleagues<\/a> at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the device employs a machine learning algorithm to process data, allowing it to build up accurate maps of sources using just four detector pixels.<\/p>\n<p>\\r \\r.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever there is a risk of radioactive materials leaking into the environment, it is critical for site managers to map out radiation sources as accurately as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the tetromino shapes in the classic video game Tetris, researchers in the US have designed a simple radiation detector that can monitor radioactive sources both safely and efficiently. Created by Mingda Li and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the device employs a machine learning algorithm to process data, allowing it to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}