A framework for cervical cancer elimination in low-and-middle-income countries: a scoping review and roadmap for interventions and research priorities

MB Shin, G Liu, N Mugo, PJ Garcia, DW Rao… - Frontiers in public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The World Health Organization announced an ambitious call for cervical cancer elimination
worldwide. With existing prevention and treatment modalities, cervical cancer elimination is …

Optical imaging for screening and early cancer diagnosis in low-resource settings

R Richards-Kortum, C Lorenzoni, VS Bagnato… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Low-cost optical imaging technologies have the potential to reduce inequalities in health
care by improving the detection of precancer or early cancer and enabling more effective …

Development of algorithms for automated detection of cervical pre-cancers with a low-cost, point-of-care, pocket colposcope

MN Asiedu, A Simhal, U Chaudhary… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Goal: In this paper, we propose methods for (1) automatic feature extraction and
classification for acetic acid and Lugol's iodine cervigrams and (2) methods for combining …

Advances in technologies for cervical cancer detection in low-resource settings

KA Kundrod, CA Smith, B Hunt… - Expert review of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Cervical cancer mortality rates remain high in low-and middle-income countries
(LMICs) and other medically underserved areas due to challenges with implementation and …

Development of a multimodal mobile colposcope for real-time cervical cancer detection

JB Coole, D Brenes, JC Possati-Resende… - Biomedical Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Cervical cancer remains a leading cause of cancer death among women in low-and middle-
income countries. Globally, cervical cancer prevention programs are hampered by a lack of …

Portable Pocket colposcopy performs comparably to standard‐of‐care clinical colposcopy using acetic acid and Lugol's iodine as contrast mediators: an …

JL Mueller, CT Lam, D Dahl, MN Asiedu… - … Journal of Obstetrics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Our goal was to develop a tele‐colposcopy platform for primary‐care clinics to
improve screening sensitivity and access. Specifically, we developed a low‐cost, portable …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative screening of cervical cancers for low-resource settings: pilot study of smartphone-based endoscopic visual inspection after acetic acid using …

JK Bae, HJ Roh, JS You, K Kim, Y Ahn… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2020 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background: Approximately 90% of global cervical cancer (CC) is mostly found in low-and
middle-income countries. In most cases, CC can be detected early through routine …

[HTML][HTML] Multicontrast pocket colposcopy cervical cancer diagnostic algorithm for referral populations

N AsieduMercy - BME frontiers, 2022 - spj.science.org
Abstract Objective and Impact Statement. We use deep learning models to classify cervix
images—collected with a low-cost, portable Pocket colposcope—with biopsy-confirmed high …

Screening test accuracy of portable devices that can be used to perform colposcopy for detecting CIN2+ in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review and …

K Taghavi, E Rohner, P Basu, N Low, A Rutjes… - BMC women's …, 2020 - Springer
Background Portable devices that can be used to perform colposcopy may improve cervical
cancer screening in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) where access to colposcopy is …

Diagnostic performance of HPV E6/E7 mRNA assay for detection of cervical high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia and cancer among women with ASCUS …

C Ren, Y Zhu, L Yang, X Zhang, L Liu… - Archives of Gynecology …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical performance of high risk (HR)
HPV E6/E7 mRNA assay in detecting cervical high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia and …