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Using Dynamic Features for Automatic Cervical Precancer Detection

Vinals Terres, Roser  
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Vassilakos, Pierre
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Rad, Mohammad Saeed  
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April 17, 2021
Diagnostics

Cervical cancer remains a major public health concern in developing countries due to financial and human resource constraints. Visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) of the cervix was widely promoted and routinely used as a low-cost primary screening test in low- and middle-income countries. It can be performed by a variety of health workers and the result is immediate. VIA provides a transient whitening effect which appears and disappears differently in precancerous and cancerous lesions, as compared to benign conditions. Colposcopes are often used during VIA to magnify the view of the cervix and allow clinicians to visually assess it. However, this assessment is generally subjective and unreliable even for experienced clinicians. Computer-aided techniques may improve the accuracy of VIA diagnosis and be an important determinant in the promotion of cervical cancer screening. This work proposes a smartphone-based solution that automatically detects cervical precancer from the dynamic features extracted from videos taken during VIA. The proposed solution achieves a sensitivity and specificity of 0.9 and 0.87 respectively, and could be a solution for screening in countries that suffer from the lack of expensive tools such as colposcopes and well-trained clinicians.

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research article
DOI
10.3390/diagnostics11040716
Author(s)
Vinals Terres, Roser  
Vassilakos, Pierre
Rad, Mohammad Saeed  
Undurraga, Manuela
Petignat, Patrick
Thiran, Jean-Philippe  
Date Issued

2021-04-17

Published in
Diagnostics
Volume

11

Issue

4

Start page

716

Subjects

cervical cancer

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visual inspection with acetic acid

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automatic detection

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screening

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This is an Open Access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

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