Iranian Company Manufactures 3D Digital Mammography Device
“3D digital mammography, using X-ray-based imaging technology and advanced data analysis, enables the identification of small cancerous masses and the detection of lesions hidden in dense tissues. This technology is a big breakthrough, specially for women with dense breast tissue, where detection is more difficult,” said Amir Askari Raad, the managing director of Payamed Electronic company.
Noting that each imported mammography device costs an average of $150,000, he said, “With the domestic production of these devices, not only the exchange rate is reduced by 80%, but also an annual saving of $12 million happens.”
“Payamed Electronic company has so far supplied over 600 mammography devices across the country and exported its product to Iraq, Syria and Türkiye,” Askari Raad said.
In a relevant development last year, an Iranian student of artificial intelligence at the University of Tehran had also designed and produced a breast cancer diagnosis system with a high accuracy of over 98%.
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 last year.
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