CervicoXNet: an automated cervicogram interpretation network.

Visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) is a pre-cancerous screening program for low-middle-income countries (LMICs). Due to the limited number of oncology-gynecologist clinicians in LMICs, VIA examinations are performed mainly by medical workers. However, the inability of the medical workers to recognize a significant pattern based on cervicograms, VIA examination produces high inter-observer variance and high false-positive rate.

Automated Precancerous Lesion Screening Using an Instance Segmentation Technique for Improving Accuracy.

Precancerous screening using visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) is suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO) for low-middle-income countries (LMICs). However, because of the limited number of gynecological oncologist clinicians in LMICs, VIA screening is primarily performed by general clinicians, nurses, or midwives (called medical workers). However, not being able to recognize the significant pathophysiology of human papilloma virus (HPV) infection in terms of the columnar epithelial-cell, squamous epithelial-cell, and white-spot regions with abnormal blood vessels may be further aggravated by VIA screening, which achieves a wide range of sensitivity (49-98%) and specificity (75-91%); this might lead to a false result and high interobserver variances.