AI assisted detection of cancer bone metastasis
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the top 10 causes of death among Taiwanese in 2018, cancer has been the leading cause of death for 37 consecutive years, and prostate cancer ranked sixth, with 11.8 deaths because prostate cancer in every 10 million people. Prostate cancer is also called "the invisible killer of male". If metastasis occurs in cancer patients, about half of the patients will have bone metastases. If it's not treated early and timely when bone metastases, many complications that affect the quality of life and even life-threatening may occur.
As a highly sensitive and cost-effective bone metastasis detection tool, nuclear medicine bone scan has been widely used in the first-line screening of high-risk cancer patients for bone metastasis.Bone scan image diagnosis still relies heavily on the production of written interpretation reports by experienced nuclear medicine specialists. The rapid advancement of cancer treatments has extended the life of patients, and at the same time, the paperwork for nuclear medicine bone scans has also increased.Good doctors are not easy to train and cannot immediately keep up with the increase in the number of medical images. When the doctor is tired, it's easy to cause omissions or misjudgments.
If there is an interface that combines images to quickly mark the lesion and automatically output a text report that the doctor defines in advance, it will immediately improve clinical breakthroughs and improve medical quality.This auxiliary investigation procedure has now obtained a patent for invention in the Republic of China, and patents in the United States and China are currently pending.
2020-08-21