Method and apparatus for efficacy improvement in management of cases with equivocal screening results

摘要

Automatic recommendation of a colposcopic procedure, further DNA testing and additional clinical procedures based on data from machine based cytological specimen scoring, histological specimen scoring, biomedical specimen scoring or biological specimen scoring. A computerized biological specimen processing system scores a biomedical specimen taken from a patient. A functional measure of risk is computed from the score, data taken about the patient, such as patient age and case history, and clinical information. The clinical information includes co-existence of disease, risk factors, and symptoms. The system automatically determines the risk category, whether low-risk, high-risk, mid-risk or potential-risk based on the functional measure of risk and risk thresholds. The system recommends cytology follow-up, additional clinical procedures, further DNA testing and specimen analysis based on the risk, categories.