Computer-aided diagnosis of cervical dysplasia using colposcopic images.

Background: computer-aided diagnosis of medical images is becoming more significant in intelligent medicine. Colposcopy-guided biopsy with pathological diagnosis is the gold standard in diagnosing CIN and invasive cervical cancer. However, it struggles with its low sensitivity in differentiating cancer/HSIL from LSIL/normal, particularly in areas with a lack of skilled colposcopists and access to adequate medical resources.

Effects of Th17 cells and IL-17 in the progression of cervical carcinogenesis with high-risk human papillomavirus infection.

The existence of Th17 cells and IL-17 was recently shown in several types of infectious diseases, but their distribution and functions in cervical lesions with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection have not been fully elucidated. In this study, the frequency of Th17 cells in peripheral blood samples obtained from 28 cervical squamous cell carcinoma patients, 26 CIN1 patients, 30 CIN2 patients, 29 CIN3 patients, 25 high-risk HPV-infected women with normal cervical cytology, and 30 healthy controls was determined by flow cytometry. Besides, the levels of IL-17 in peripheral blood samples as well as in supernatant of cervical tissue homogenate were assessed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) simultaneously.