According to TASS, the method allows for a more accurate diagnosis of cancer in a non-invasive manner, without biopsy, based on computer quantification of tissue texture at the pixel level.
Scientists from the Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) I. Kant are developing a «virtual biopsy» method for cancer diagnosis that allows for a more accurate diagnosis of cancer in a non-invasive way, based on computer analysis of tissue characteristics at the pixel level inaccessible to the human eye. This was reported on Wednesday in the press service of the BFU.
Scientists proposed an original method for intelligent analysis of CT and MRI images using artificial neural networks and digital image anisotropy indicators and radiomics to diagnose various oncological diseases.
«Virtual biopsy» allows a more accurate diagnosis of the tumor in a non-invasive way, without biopsy, based on computer quantification of tissue texture at the pixel level. Two new approaches are used: anisotropy — determining changes in the properties of tissues depending on the direction of their measurement, radiomics is the extraction of quantitative features from digital images using computer algorithms, ‘quotes the project manager, professor of the Medical Institute of the Belarusian Federal University, Andrei Litvin, in the press service.
Based on this intellectual analysis, a computer decision support system will be developed for early non-invasive diagnosis of various neoplastic diseases. “The system will be a cloud service that can be used by all interested public and private medical institutions, various medical research organizations. The system will also function as an installation program on the disk in the event that it is not possible to connect to the cloud service via the Internet, explained the project participant, PhD student at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics and Information Technology of the Belarusian Federal University, Dmitry Burkin.
The authors of the «virtual biopsy» won a grant in the field of artificial intelligence in the competition Start-II-1, organized by the Foundation for the Promotion of Innovation. The size of the grant for the development of IKBFU scientists was 4 million rubles.
Scientists plan to complete work on creating an innovation system by spring 2023. The authors of the «virtual biopsy» method are PhD student at the Institute of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Information Technology Dmitry Burkin, doctor of medical sciences, professor of the Medical Institute, project scientist Andrei Litwin, oncologist Fyodor Paramzin, software engineer Zachar Ponimash.
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