Breast Cancer Diagnosis System with 98% Accuracy Commercialized in Iran
The system was designed by Mehdi Homsian, a PhD student in artificial intelligence and soft computing at Kish International Campus of the University of Tehran, which has shown a diagnosis accuracy of more than 98% in a pilot run on 7,000 patients.
“This software has been designed to increase the accuracy of diagnosis and higher productivity for breast cancer patients. This algorithm has been implemented on nearly 7,000 cancer patients in Iran as a pilot and showed 98.6% accuracy,” said Homsian.
He noted that the method can be applied for diagnosis of breast cancer by using the diagnostic tool of mammography image.
“Reduction in the radiologist's eye fatigue due to working with fully colored images, increasing the accuracy of radiologist due to the color spectrum based on the amount of density in the image, increasing the accuracy in detecting microcalcifications due to the obvious color difference in the mammography image, and increasing the accuracy in diagnosing tumors are among features of the system,” Homsian said.
He added that the system has now been commercialized.
Iran is now mass-producing and supplying medical centers with a home-made Cancer Diagnostic Probe (CDP) device for detection of surgical margins of cancerous tumors which enjoys 95% accuracy.
"CDP is the first completely Iranian cancer surgery device in the world, and so far 20 devices have been delivered to medical centers or are being delivered," said Mohammad Abdol Ahad, a faculty member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of the University of Tehran and the head of the Electronic Cancer Research Center of University of Tehran earlier this year.
Noting that the CDP is capable of identification of infected margins and involved lymph nodes during surgery with the help of electrical nanostructure sensor, he said that the CDP is the first completely Iran-made cancer surgery device in the world.
“It took 8 years since the formation and proof of the initial scientific idea based on the electrical measurement of cell metabolism to the final clinical product,” Abdol Ahad said.
He underlined that the Iran-made CDP system has several US-granted patents and more than 11 articles in prestigious international journals in various fields from bioelectronics to surgery with impact factors of above 10.
The Iran-made CDP device displays the results to the surgeon during surgery in real time.
4155/v
