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(Breast) Cancer biopsies, with histology and outcome reports. While it isn't my research project, I've been trying to use computer vision and some naive AI to
by jszymborski 10y ago
(Breast) Cancer biopsies, with histology and outcome reports.
While it isn't my research project, I've been trying to use computer vision and some naive AI to identify early breast cancer lesions in images from mouse tissue with mixed success, but it's something that can be very much accelerated with a large human dataset with outcomes.
(If you work in the field and what to help/hire me with/for something like this, kindly send a message to hn AT naj-p.com)
There are understandably some ethical guidelines that need to be worked for this sort of thing, but seeing as their are public repositories of not-so-dissimilar information (e.g. mammograms), it should be workable.
- acveilleux 10y agoYou're probably aware, but CAD is a staple of modern mammo interpretation workflows. Products like Hologic ImageChecker CAD.
- jszymborski 10y agoYup :) though I'm more interested in biopsies information, because they give a better understanding of cellular architecture, and if they're stained against markers, the molecular biology of the cancer. Mammogram analysis is an essential first-line, but I think doctors need better insight in treatment options and finer stratification. An early Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia, for example, is usually treated as pre-pre-cancer, but we might be able to identify a subtype of these lesions that progress on to more aggressive stages.
- ska 10y agoWhich was shipped in the 90s, well before Hologic acquired it.