Smartphone Use for Cervical Cancer Screening in Low-Resource Countries: A Pilot Study Conducted in Madagascar
- Catarino, rosa
- Vassilakos, Pierre
- Scaringella, Stefano
- Undurraga Malinverno, Manuela Stefania
- Meyer-Hamme, Ulrike
- Ricard-Gauthier, Dominique
- Matute, Juan Carlos
- Petignat, Patrick
Publication date
January 2015
DOI Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS) ISSN
1932-6203 Citation count (estimate)
11Abstract
Visual inspection of the cervix after application of 5% acetic acid (VIA) is a screening technique for cervical cancer used widely in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). To improve VIA screening performance, digital images after acid acetic application (D-VIA) are taken. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a smartphone for on- and off-site D-VIA diagnosis
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