Intelligent System to Provide Support in the Analysis of Colposcopy Images Based on Artificial Vision and Deep Learning: A First Approach for Rural Environments in Ecuador

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cervical cancer (CC) is an illness that has taken more than 342,000 female lives in 2020 and is considered the fourth cause of death in the world. In the rural areas of countries like Ecuador, there is no existence of low-cost tools for women who need to perform a self-screening exam and doctors who need to report cases based on artificial vision. For these reasons, in this article, we present the results of the first stage of development of the ecosystems aimed at the early detection of CC in rural areas. This ecosystem is based on a mobile application used to take photos during self-screening, a web tool to store and manage the image and diagnosis, and a module to classify images using deep learning