Cancer

Studies from Thomas Jefferson University provide new data on cancer

Published in Blood Weekly, August 13th, 2009

According to recent research from the United States, "In this article, the authors present a novel real-time cancer detection technique by using needle insertion forces in conjunction with patient-specific criteria during percutaneous interventions. Needle insertion experiments and pathological analysis were performed for developing a computer-aided detection (CAD) model."

"Backward stepwise regression method was performed to identify the statistically significant patient-specific factors. A baseline force model was then developed using these significant factors. The threshold force model that estimated the lower bound of the cancerous tissue forces was formulated by...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2009-08-13)

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