Cervical cancer screening in low-resource settings: a smartphone image application as an alternative to colposcopy
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Cervical cancer screening in low-resource settings: a smartphone image application as an alternative to colposcopy
BACKGROUND Visual inspection after application of acetic acid (VIA) and Lugol's iodine (VILI) is a cervical cancer (CC) screening approach that has recently been adopted in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Innovative technologies allow the acquisition of consecutive cervical images of VIA and VILI using a smartphone application. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of smart...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Women's Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1179-1411
DOI: 10.2147/ijwh.s136351