Computerized Cytological Features for Papillary Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis-Preliminary Report.

Shyang-Rong Shih^1,2,3, I-Shiow Jan⁴, Kuen-Yuan Chen⁵, Wan-Yu Chuang⁶, Chih-Yuan Wang^1,2, Yung-Lien Hsiao², Tien-Chun Chang^1,3,7, Argon Chen⁸

¹National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei 10051, Taiwan.

²Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10002, Taiwan.

³Center of Anti-Aging and Health Consultation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10002, Taiwan.

⁴Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10002, Taiwan.

⁵Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 10002, Taiwan.

⁶AmCad BioMed Corporation, Taipei 10547, Taiwan.

⁷Far Eastern Polyclinic, Taipei 10043, Taiwan.

⁸Institute of Industrial Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.

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Abstract

Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is the final diagnosis of thyroid nodules before surgery. It is important to further improve the indeterminate FNAC diagnosis results using computerized cytological features. This retrospective cross-sectional study included 240 cases, of whom 110 had histologic diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancers (PTC), 100 had nodular/adenomatous goiters/hyperplasia (ben…

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