Cervical cancer is a leading cause of death for women in rural areas around the world.
cervical cancer with an accuracy pretty high, a little over 90%, just on a single image alone.
Cervical cancer is still a killer for women in Latin America and the Caribbean and across the globe.
Cervical cancer in particular but used in general just as perpetual cancer cells.
Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, about all of the 33 of the spinal vertebrae are filled with nourishing cerebral spinal fluid that
in cervical cancer screening-- liquid-based cytology, HPV testing, and most importantly, the vaccine--
Remember cervical cancer is a communicable disease.
Her cervical cancer cells were isolated and cultured at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951 and they became the first human cell
opening of the cervix and that hole if you go through that tiny tiny hole, it gets to the uterus and the uterus is a
We had identified that cervical cancer, which we'll speak about in a bit, is the leading cause of death for women in rural areas around the world.
So a normal cervix-- the cervix, just for everyone who-- I learned this when I started at MobileODT-- the cervix is where the baby comes out through, right?
And the cervix, a normal cervix, is fleshy and has squamous cell and columnar cells.
at risk for cervical cancer.
But for cervical cancer, specifically, are you taking images from the pap smear swab?
And the first cervical cancer screening program in Afghanistan was started because EVA systems out in Afghanistan were being used by midwives.
an image of their cervix.
I've suffered with cervical spondylosis.
sit outside the cervix and um it's a very simple all silicone uh device that
This is the basic workflow for how cervical cancer screening works in the United States today.
The provider scrapes cells off the cervix, puts it in a little bucket, closes that bucket, gives it to a medical assistant.
So we cannot be identified by our cervix or by-- well, it depends on what images of our skin.
Because women had never seen their cervix.
But this is like an entire cervical spine of the cow.
I'll show you in a little bit how cervical cancer develops.
But you can't identify a woman from her cervix, nor can you identify a man from his oropharyngeal cancer, or any person from their skin disease.
So they will know a woman who has died of cervical cancer.
from pap screening, cervical cancer screening, sex education, gender-based violence services,
I'll talk a little bit about our cervical cancer work, which I think is a good indication of that.
that is released during childirth to make baby happening things like cervix opening and stuff. It's the first
Your head is resting effortlessly on top of the cervical spine.
gets written on people's birth notes, incompetent cervix, my woman in room three.
But just on one foot, cervical cancer can take up to 20 years to kill a patient.
So every woman-- every single woman of reproductive age-- should be screened for cervical cancer regularly, whether it be every three years or every five
In our case, because we'll still use cervical cancer as our case study here, it can identify women at risk.
And if the appropriate treatment isn't there-- if it's not for cervical cancer, it could be for any other type of disease--
And at a distance, it images the cervix.
And I think the program I was talking about in Bolivia on cervical cancer is again a good example because we not
lot of cancer a lot of Cancer all types breast cancer prostate cancer cervical
And, visibly, on the surface of the cervix, you start to see signs that that infection is beginning to grow.
Well, because the United States spends about $6.6 billion every year screening women for cervical cancer-- $6.6 billion.
And that's why African American and Hispanic women in the United States have rates of cervical cancer that are almost equivalent, and in some places higher,
Because what's fascinating is that these algorithms-- because remember, cervical cancer, just like many other diseases is visually assessable-- these algorithms we already know and love
What I can say about it is that, what's fascinating about the cervix is that it's a pretty clear example of squamous cell carcinoma, which
There aren't public data sets available to ensure that kind of identification of a person based on one mole or on a cervix or an oral cavity, even.
So it took us a pretty long time to develop an algorithm that can identify the cervix.
So we do have a dataset that we made available through Kaggle in a competition that Intel sponsored on type of cervix, which
There are many strains of the virus, but two that really cause cervical cancer.
One thing that we are very happy to know now is that the vaccine that I was talking about to prevent cervical cancer, instead of having three doses,
One last thing. I'm headed to Uganda next month to work on a cervical cancer awareness campaign.
This is a lot of work that was done on the sciatic, the cervical vagus, and then we've done a lot of work on the splanchnic nerve