Wednesday, 19 March 2014

New Schulich software helps spot breast cancer earlier

Software developed at the Schulich School of Engineering in collaboration with the Alberta Breast Cancer Screening Program has been shown to flag subtle signs of breast cancer sooner than ever before.

The system focuses on detecting architectural distortion, which refers to specific patterns in breast tissue that are often missed during routine screening. These patterns can be precursors to tumours and they may appear more than a year before more obvious signs of breast cancer such as lumps in breast tissue.

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