Cervical Cancer
New cervical cancer study results reported from Tel-Aviv University
Published in Cancer Weekly, April 7th, 2009
"The work focuses on a unique medical repository of digital cervicographic images (''Cervigrams'') collected by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in longitudinal multiyear studies. NCI, together with the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is developing a unique web-accessible database of the digitized cervix images to study the evolution of lesions related to cervical cancer," scientists in Ramat Aviv, Israel report.
"Tools are needed for automated analysis of the cervigram content to support cancer research. We present a multistage scheme for segmenting and labeling regions of anatomical interest within the cervigrams. In particular, we focus on the extraction of...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-04-07)
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