Low-cost and label-free blue light cystoscopy through digital staining of white light cystoscopy videos
Shuang Chang, Greyson A. Wintergerst, Camella Carlson, Haoli Yin, Kristen R. Scarpato, Amy N. Luckenbaugh, Sam S. Chang, Soheil Kolouri, Audrey K. Bowden · 2024
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Description
Shuang Chang and co-authors present software that makes ordinary bladder scans look like dye-enhanced ones, at a fraction of the cost, in a 2024 paper. Bladder cancer returns often, so patients face repeated scope checks. The standard white-light scope misses some early cancers. Blue-light scope, which uses a glowing dye, finds far more, but the gear is pricey and the dye needs a long wait in the bladder.
Their system learns to digitally stain white-light video so cancer areas glow as they would under blue light. Careful pre-steps tame the color and brightness swings of real clinic footage. The stained images matched the real dye images with about eighty-one percent accuracy, in both scores and looks. The authors say the trick could spread dye-level detection to clinics that cannot afford the gear, and beyond urology.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shuang Chang, Greyson A. Wintergerst, Camella Carlson, Haoli Yin, Kristen R. Scarpato, Amy N. Luckenbaugh, Sam S. Chang, Soheil Kolouri, Audrey K. Bowden |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |