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High-definition Fourier Transform Infrared FT-IR Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Tissue Sections towards Improving Pathology
Published on: January 21, 2015
Frontline clinical diagnosis-FTIR on pancreatic cancer
Edward Duckworth1, Matthew Mortimer2, Bilal Al-Sarireh2
1Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
Objective:
Accurate, easily accessible and economically viable cancer diagnostic tools are pivotal in improving the abysmal 5% survival rate of pancreatic cancer.
Methods:
A novel, affordable, non-invasive diagnostic method has been developed by combining measurement precision of infrared spectroscopy with classification using machine learning tools.
Results:
Diagnosis accuracy as high as 90% has been achieved. The study investigated urine and blood from pancreas cancer patients and healthy volunteers, and significantly improved accuracy by focusing on sweet-spots within blood plasma fractions containing molecules within a narrow range of molecular weights.
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