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            ratio values indicate normal tissues, while higher ratio   weakness, and loss of appetite. The physical examination
            values represent higher grades of malignancy. The most   showed an irregular mass on the anterior side of the cervix,
            malignant site was identified as a site with the highest DR   with the involvement of the posterior and lateral fornix,
            image ratio R610/R545 value, and a biopsy was obtained   as well as the lower part of the vagina. The histopathology
            from this site for an accurate determination of the cancer   result following cervical biopsy confirmed malignancy.
            grade through histopathology.                      Immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence, along
              Typical cases  of patients with  cervical intraepithelial   with histopathology results, confirmed the diagnosis of
            neoplasia (CIN) and one case of cervicitis are presented   carcinosarcoma (squamous cell carcinoma with sarcoma),
            below:                                             with an R610/R545 image ratio value of 3.005, as illustrated
                                                               in Figure 4.
            3.1.1. Case 1
                                                               3.1.3. Case 3
            Figure  3 shows a 56-year-old patient with complaints
            of  post-menopausal bleeding and  abdominal  pain.  The   A 50-year-old patient with cervicitis was studied based
            gynecologist identified a massive growth covering the   on the DR image ratio R610/R575 value. The patient had
            anterior and posterior lips of the cervix and the upper part   difficulty in passing urine, and her cervix showed erosions
            of the vagina. The patient was diagnosed with squamous   (Figure  5). Based on the biopsy results, the patient was
            cell carcinoma based on a Pap smear test. A conventional   diagnosed with chronic cervicitis and no dysplasia. This
            biopsy was obtained from the growth. Our device recorded   case demonstrated a relatively higher R610/R575 ratio
            a R610/R545 ratio value of 2.078. The histopathology result   value of 2.433, compared to a lower R610/R545 ratio value
            diagnosed the disease as grade 2 squamous cell carcinoma.  of 1.461.
            3.1.2. Case 2                                      3.2. Scatter plot and algorithm development
            This is the case of a 50-year-old patient presenting with   The scatter plot  diagram of the R610/R545 ratio values,
            foul-smelling discharge and blood stains for the past   correlated with the corresponding pathological results,
            2 years, along with passage of clots, abdominal pain, general   was used to classify normal and malignant cervical tissues







                                     Figure 2. Block diagram of data processing and analysis using CerviScan

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            Figure 3. Images of grade 2 cervical carcinoma: (A) Clinical impression, (B) pseudocolor fluorescence, (C) monochrome diffuse reflectance image ratio
            R610/R545, and (D) pseudocolor diffuse reflectance image ratio R610/R545, with a dial indicating a ratio value of 2.078 in the marked region of interest


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