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Virtual Sentinel Node for the Detection of Breast Cancer Spread

Team members: Gelareh Farshid , Malcolm Pradhan


Introduction

Computer simulations of lymph node metastasis for optimizing the pathologic examination of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with breast carcinoma
An introdution to the use of simulation to determine the optimal tissue sectioning strategy for locating breast cancer metastases in axillary lymph nodes.  View ]
 

Details

Detection of Metastatic Breast Cancer Using Sentinel Node Biopsy
An introduction to the use of simulation and genetic algorithms to determine optimal strategies for histological detection of breast cancer metastases.  View ]
 

Publications

Genetic Algorithms to optimise strategies for the detection metastatic spread
HIC 1999 paper that describes the use of genetic algorithms to find cost-effective policies for the investigation of sentinel node biopsies in breast cancer.  View ]