Portugal are identified each year 4,500 new cases of breast cancer and 4,000 new cases of prostate cancer. The ExpertBayes, developed by researchers of the Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), will help to give more precision to the risk assessment where a biopsy is done. Integrates medical knowledge with Machine Learning techniques in graphical models, to reduce sampling errors biopsy, explains the institute in a press release.
On that note, INESC TEC details that the software is also prepared to work with other data. It is not limited to cancers, but in application to this area is to take advantage of information gathered by Carnegie Statistics Department Mellon University (CMU) in the area of prostate cancer and data transferred by Elizabeth Burnside, a specialist in cancer . breast at the Hospital of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US
Over two years the system supported the screening of 737 patients: 496 for prostate cancer and 348 breast cancer. “The acceptance by the health professionals was very positive, since, if in doubt, to make the diagnosis, the ExpertBayes helps them make the best decision,” says Ezilda Almeida, one of the researchers responsible for the technology, which will now be marketed by NLPC.
This Wednesday marks the World Day of Cancer Research.
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