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    Diagnosing Cervical Neoplasia in Rural Brazil: Clinical Trial Outcomes and a Next-generation Point-of-care Imaging System

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    Hunt, Brady
    Date
    2020-06-22
    Advisor
    Richards-Kortum, Rebecca
    Degree
    Doctor of Philosophy
    Abstract
    This work contains a series of clinical studies conducted at a Brazilian cancer hospital to validate a low-cost, portable, high-resolution microendoscope (HRME) for real-time diagnostic evaluation of cervical lesions. Findings from these clinical studies led me to explore two approaches to further improve HRME: 1) improved image analysis algorithms and 2) improved optical instrumentation. In total, five studies are presented: three clinical studies and two technical studies. Taken altogether, these studies provide strong evidence for the potential of HRME to improve cervical cancer prevention in low-resource healthcare settings.
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    cervical cancer; optical diagnosis; in vivo microscopy; point-of-care imaging; machine learning
    Citation
    Hunt, Brady. "Diagnosing Cervical Neoplasia in Rural Brazil: Clinical Trial Outcomes and a Next-generation Point-of-care Imaging System." (2020) Diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/109104.
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