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 …

[HTML][HTML] Controle do câncer do colo do útero na atenção primária à saúde em países sul-americanos: revisão sistemática

RS Cerqueira, HLPC dos Santos… - … de Salud Pública, 2023 - SciELO Public Health
Objetivo. Descrever as estratégias para prevenção e controle do câncer do colo do útero
(CCU) na atenção primária à saúde (APS) na América do Sul. Métodos. Revisão de …

Deep learning extended depth-of-field microscope for fast and slide-free histology

L Jin, Y Tang, Y Wu, JB Coole… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Microscopic evaluation of resected tissue plays a central role in the surgical management of
cancer. Because optical microscopes have a limited depth-of-field (DOF), resected tissue is …

A community-based mobile clinic model delivering PrEP for HIV prevention to adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa

E Rousseau, LG Bekker, RF Julies, C Celum… - BMC health services …, 2021 - Springer
Background Daily doses of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can reduce the risk of acquiring
HIV by more than 95%. In sub-Saharan Africa, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) …

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 …

Multi-task network for automated analysis of high-resolution endomicroscopy images to detect cervical precancer and cancer

D Brenes, CJ Barberan, B Hunt, SG Parra… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cervical cancer is a public health emergency in low-and middle-income countries where
resource limitations hamper standard-of-care prevention strategies. The high-resolution …

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 …

Development of low-cost point-of-care technologies for cervical cancer prevention based on a single-board computer

S Parra, E Carranza, J Coole, B Hunt… - IEEE journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cervical cancer disproportionally affects women in low-and middle-income countries, in part
due to the difficulty of implementing existing cervical cancer screening and diagnostic …

Low-cost, chromatic confocal endomicroscope for cellular imaging in vivo

N Kulkarni, A Masciola, A Nishant, KJ Kim… - Biomedical Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We have developed a low-cost, chromatic confocal endomicroscope (CCE) that can image a
cross-section of the tissue at cellular resolution. In CCE, a custom miniature objective lens …

Cervical lesion assessment using real‐time microendoscopy image analysis in Brazil: the CLARA study

B Hunt, JHTG Fregnani, D Brenes… - … journal of cancer, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We conducted a prospective evaluation of the diagnostic performance of high‐resolution
microendoscopy (HRME) to detect cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in women with …