Blog #11

The Papnet focuses on testing for cancer of the cervix, consisting of the staining of cervical cells taken in a cervical or vaginal smear for examination of exfoliated cells.. A false negative is when doctors miss the pap smear and later acknowledge it when it’s too late. By not acknowledging these abnormal cells from the cervix it could later cause the women to develop cancer. They use a special technique that gives them excellent results. First they load the Pap smear slide into a cassette, and then the cassette loaded onto the cassette scanner. Then a robotic arm removes each slide and places it on the stage and goes through a bright and dark lighting routine. Then they go through a low and high power routine to digitalize all the cells. Last, they feed it to the neural network and rescanned. The Papnet is superior to human diagnosticians because it detects a far greater number of pap smears than the human looking at a microscope. Three benefits that the Papnet system is excellent in pattern recognition, they act as a visual brain, look at the cells 10 times greater which helps not miss cells. The patient is taking risks because it is basin his or her life in a computer. The society risk is losing jobs for testing.