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Colorectal cancer is the third-most common cause of cancer death in the United States among men and women, and the incidence among people under age 50 has risen to one in five new diagnoses, according to the American Cancer Society. While treatment a
Quing Zhu at the McKelvey School of Engineering and Matthew Mutch at the School of Medicine, both at Washington University in St. Louis, have been working together to develop a new imaging technology that can help doctors determine which colorectal cancer patients' treatments have been successful, helping some to avoid surgery. The team was awarded a four-year $1.75 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support their efforts.
A research team from the lab of Quing Zhu, the Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has combined optical coherence tomography (OCT) and machine learning to develop a colorectal cancer imaging tool that may one day improve the traditional endoscopy currently used by doctors.