How AVE can improve cervical cancer screening | Liming Hu, Phd, Computer Science posted on the topic | LinkedIn (2024)

The Research and Development of Automated Visual Evaluation (AVE) for cervical cancer screening using deep learning algorithm.It took us several years of effort to transform a cervical cancer initiative to an AVE project, and implementation: 1.Liming Hu, David Bell, Sameer Antani, Zhiyun Xue, Kai Yu, Matthew P Horning, Noni Gachuhi, Benjamin Wilson, Mayoore S Jaiswal, Brian Befano, L Rodney Long, Rolando Herrero, Mark H Einstein, Robert D Burk, Maria Demarco, Julia C Gage, Ana Cecilia Rodriguez, Nicolas Wentzensen, Mark Schiffman, An Observational Study of Deep Learning and Automated Evaluation of Cervical Images for Cancer Screening,JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Volume 111, Issue 9, September 2019, Pages 923–932,https://lnkd.in/g_YQh5qEIn this landmark paper, we first showed that a deep learning-based algorithm-AVE can do better than human doctors on screening cervical precancer:This article was covered in several hundred news reports. Even the NIH director wrote a blog post about our research: https://lnkd.in/gndx_Ae2.L. Huet al., "Deep learning-based image evaluation for cervical precancer screening with a smartphone targeting low resource settings – Engineering approach,"2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 1944-1949, doi: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175863.It covered our initial engineering effort to transform the original proof of concept algorithm to a smart phone platform, it includes two algorithms: the image acquisition algorithm to get a good quality image, and the efficient AVE core algorithm.3.Hu L, Mwanahamuntu MH, Sahasrabuddhe VV, et al. Internal validation of Automated Visual Evaluation (AVE) on smartphone images for cervical cancer screening in a prospective study in Zambia. Cancer Med. 2024; 13: e7355. doi:10.1002/cam4.7355In this paper, we demonstrated that it is feasible to implement AVE as a program to do cervical precancer screening.I hope this AVE effort can help eliminate cervical precancer, especially for the women in Low-Middle income countries (LMIC).

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