Classification of Cells in Cervical Smears

Presently, an increased effort to realize computer-assisted screening is generated in response to the American shortage of cytotechnologists after the Wall Street Journal in 1987 carried a major article questioning the accuracy of cervical screening in the USA (Bogdanich, 1987). Federal legislation was implemented limiting the number of smears screened (this number could formerly be as high as 300 per day for one cytotechnologist) and doubling in some states the salaries in six months.

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