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Cell phones as a new m‐Health opportunity for mass cervical cancer screening
Author(s) -
Markovic Olivera,
Markovic Nenad
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.24.1_supplement.954.1
Subject(s) - cervical cancer , computer science , wireless , digital camera , adapter (computing) , camera phone , computer vision , medical physics , artificial intelligence , telecommunications , multimedia , medicine , computer hardware , cancer
Lacking an efficient preventive screening, cervical cancer is a problem in developing world taking one woman's life every three minutes. At the prior EB meetings, we presented our MarkPap® platform technology for early detection of abnormal cells on cervical specimens, subsequently upgraded with telecytopathology using digital imaging and web networking. We will present expanding this platform into m‐Health using a modified cellphone camera technology for capturing microscopic images and their wireless transmission for distant evaluation. The biomarker is a unique connecting link between the microscopic evaluation on site and a remote, digital image evaluation by experts at distant locations. One of the still unresolved challenges to enable wider application of this wireless technology is the positioning and keeping the camera sensor in a proper illumination position to the ocular plane. We are currently testing several cellphone adapters to develop a universal adapter to connect “any microscope” and “any cellphone camera.” Comparing images taken with standard digital camera and the cellphone camera with our new adapters we have shown sufficient cytological details enabling cytological diagnosis with high inter‐observer reliability. These results indicate this tool (m‐Health) as a new affordable prospective for cervical cancer screening and for saving women's lives in the low‐resource areas.