New research out of the University of Waterloo could take some of the guesswork out of reading MRI and CT scans.
Alex Wong, a professor of system design engineering, has discovered unique bio-markers that could help radiologists better identify prostate and lung tumours on medical images.
Diagnosing cancer through an imaging screening is a very difficult process. It's actually very tough
"You could treat it as creating a digital fingerprint for characterizing tissue," Wong said, one that can be compared to a patient's MRI or CT scan.
"If this particular fingerprint matches that of, let's say, a malignant tumour, then a radiologist can look at this and say, 'Well, these are very similar. Maybe this is something we should look further into.'"