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    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Nanotechnology
    • Oncology

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    • Early cancer detection remains a significant challenge in clinical practice.
    • Current diagnostic methods have limitations in sensitivity and specificity.
    • Targeted drug delivery and diagnostics using nanotechnology are rapidly evolving fields.

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    • To propose a novel, iterative cancer detection procedure (CDP) using nanorobots.
    • To leverage a biological cost function and gradient descent for tumor localization.
    • To demonstrate the feasibility of a nanorobot-based diagnostic system.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized an iterative optimization approach based on gradient descent (GD).
    • Employed a swarm of externally controllable nanorobots as the sensing input.
    • Defined a tumor-induced biological cost function based on fibrin distribution.
    • Simulated nanorobot navigation within a high-risk tissue region.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed GD-inspired CDP successfully localizes the tumor by iteratively updating nanorobot positions.
    • Fibrin distribution effectively serves as a cost function for guiding nanorobots.
    • Numerical examples validated the procedure's capability in realistic in vivo scenarios.

    Conclusions:

    • The novel cancer detection procedure offers a promising new avenue for early cancer diagnosis.
    • Nanorobot-based systems guided by iterative optimization show potential for precise tumor detection.
    • Further research and development could translate this method into clinical applications.