Cinestav creates software that increases accuracy of diagnosis of … – The Financial

Cinestav Researchers are developing a computer software to improve the diagnosis of breast cancer, one killer of women in Mexico.

This computational method is expected to increase to 90% effectiveness of diagnosis , mainly in young radiologists, helping to train them to develop the ability to interpret ultrasound images, not both who have already experienced time analyzing images, said Wilfrido Flores Gómez, the Center for Research and Advanced Studies Unit Tamaulipas.

In an interview with Cinestav, Gomez said, “this tool for medical image analysis avoid unnecessary biopsies “for suspecting a strange injury, instead of performing an invasive surgery to remove tissue from the patient and scan, ultrasound scanning software to submit, allowing clear . any questions

The system is based on a software that previously “will be trained” with a bank representative images of hundreds of cancer cases; and the prototype by a diagnostic numeric representation images in seconds whether carcinoma is a benign lesion or by their morphology and texture. Something that the radiologist can see, the software translates numerically, said the expert in computational intelligence applied.

The first thing the software does is filter distortion experienced by the image, ie, the “noise” that are seen in the granular pattern, then reduce it, while preserving the characteristics, ie injury if any, using specific filters.

The next process is to separate the lesion through the image segmentation. Since it is the segmented image parameters or numeric attributes to identify or characterize whether the lesion is irregular calculated, indicating whether there is evidence of cancer.

He added that this research presents major advances, ” because so far we can represent shapes and textures, but still some way to go, since the problem on which you work is representational, and intuition of an expert radiologist is still too complex to capture “.

In conclusion, Gomez Flores mentioned that research results produced can be extrapolated to other types of cancers or medical images.

According to data from the Ministry of Health, 32-49 percent of breast cancer deaths are preventable if detected early disease.