Paper summary by Erman Akkus on TORCH
Erman Akkus, Medicine Oncology and Internal Medicine Specialist at Ankara University, shared on X:
“Deep-learning method for Tumor Origin Differentiation using Cytological Histology (TORCH) at Nature Medicine.
- Hydrothorax and ascites, cancer of unknown primary (CUP).
- AUC-ROC values ranging from 0.953 to 0.991 for cancer diagnosis and 0.953 to 0.979 for tumor origin localization.
- TORCH showed better prediction efficacy compared to pathologists (1.677 versus 1.265, P < 0.001).”
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