Colin Ackerman, M.D., a board-certified, fellowship-trained upper extremity specialist, is officially on deck at Campbell Clinic’s Wolf River location.

For decades, spine surgeons relied on the tried-and-true, gold-standard, time-honored, “let’s poke the spine with a sharp needle” method — aka the vertebral biopsy — to confirm malignancy. Effective?

Participants were 45-47 years old, which is that delightful stage of life when discs begin to express their existential dread radiographically. A deep learning model — presumably one with infinite ...