A low-cost platform for automated cervical cytology: addressing health and socioeconomic challenges in low-resource settings
Frontiers in Medical Technology,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
7
Опубликована: Март 31, 2025
Cervical
cancer
remains
a
significant
health
challenge
around
the
globe,
with
particularly
high
prevalence
in
low-
and
middle-income
countries.
This
disease
is
preventable
curable
if
detected
early
stages,
making
regular
screening
critically
important.
cytology,
most
widely
used
method,
has
proven
highly
effective
reducing
cervical
incidence
mortality
income
However,
its
effectiveness
low-resource
settings
been
limited,
among
other
factors,
by
insufficient
diagnostic
infrastructure
shortage
of
trained
healthcare
personnel.
paper
introduces
development
low-cost
microscopy
platform
designed
to
address
these
limitations
enabling
automatic
reading
cytology
slides.
The
system
features
robotized
microscope
capable
slide
scanning,
autofocus,
digital
image
capture,
while
supporting
integration
artificial
intelligence
(AI)
algorithms.
All
at
production
cost
below
500
USD.
A
dataset
nearly
2,000
images,
captured
custom-built
covering
seven
distinct
cellular
types
relevant
cytologic
analysis,
was
created.
then
fine-tune
test
several
pre-trained
models
for
classifying
between
images
containing
normal
abnormal
cell
subtypes.
Most
tested
showed
good
performance
properly
cells,
sensitivities
above
90%.
Among
models,
MobileNet
demonstrated
highest
accuracy
detecting
types,
achieving
98.26%
97.95%,
specificities
88.91%
88.72%,
F-scores
96.42%
96.23%
on
validation
sets,
respectively.
results
indicate
that
might
be
suitable
model
real-world
deployment
platform,
offering
precision
efficiency
images.
presents
first
step
towards
promising
solution
improving
settings.
Язык: Английский
Enhancing advanced cervical cell categorization with cluster-based intelligent systems by a novel integrated CNN approach with skip mechanisms and GAN-based augmentation
Scientific Reports,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
14(1)
Опубликована: Ноя. 23, 2024
Cervical
cancer
is
one
of
the
biggest
challenges
in
global
health,
thus
it
forms
a
critical
need
for
early
detection
technologies
that
could
improve
patient
prognosis
and
inform
treatment
decisions.
This
development
form
an
mechanism
increases
chances
successful
survival,
as
diagnosis
promptly
offers
interventions
can
dramatically
reduce
rate
deaths
attributed
to
this
disease.
Here,
customized
Convolutional
Neural
Network
(CNN)
model
proposed
cervical
cancerous
cell
detection.
It
includes
three
convolutional
layers
with
increasing
filter
sizes
max-pooling
layers,
followed
by
dropout
dense
improved
feature
extraction
robust
learning.
By
using
ResNet
models
inspiration,
further
innovates
incorporating
skip
connections
into
CNN
design.
enabling
direct
transmission
from
earlier
later
links
enhance
gradient
flow
help
preserve
important
spatial
information.
boosting
propagation,
integration
model's
ability
recognize
minute
patterns
images,
hence
classification
accuracy.
In
our
methodology,
SIPaKMeD
dataset
has
been
employed
which
contains
4049
images
are
arranged
five
different
categories.
To
address
class
imbalance,
Generative
Adversarial
Networks
(GANs)
have
applied
data
augmentation;
is,
synthetic
created,
diversity
robustness
same.
The
present
astonishingly
accurate
classifying
types:
koilocytes,
superficial-intermediate,
parabasal,
dyskeratotic,
metaplastic,
significantly
enhancing
cancer.
gives
excellent
performance
because
validation
accuracy
99.11%
training
99.82%.
reliable
cells
ensures
advancement
computer-assisted
system.
Язык: Английский