Using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy to Distinguish Tumor Tissue From Fibrosis in Rectal Cancer Patients as a Guide to Surgery.
Elisabeth J M BaltussenSusan Gijsbertje Brouwer de KoningJoyce SandersArend G J AalbersNiels F M KokGeerard L BeetsBenno H W HendriksHenricus J C M SterenborgKoert F D KuhlmannTheo J M RuersPublished in: Lasers in surgery and medicine (2019)
It is possible to distinguish pure fibrosis from pure tumor. However, when the measurements on tumor also involve fibrotic tissue, the classification accuracy decreases. Lasers Surg. Med. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.