Noninvasive Test Developed Using Machine Learning Detects Early-Stage Lung Cancer with High Sensitivity and Specificity
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Jan 24, 2023 – – bioAffinity Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIAF; BIAFW) today announced publication of “Detection of early-stage lung cancer in sputum using automated flow cytometry and machine learning” detailing results of the Company’s clinical trial for its non-invasive diagnostic CyPath® Lung in Respiratory Research, one of the leading peer-reviewed open access journals in the field of respiratory medicine.
CyPath® Lung showed 92% sensitivity and 87% specificity in high-risk patients who had nodules smaller than 20 millimeters or no nodules in the lung, with an area under the ROC curve of 94%. Overall, the test resulted in specificity of 88% and sensitivity of 82%, similar to far more invasive procedures currently used to diagnose lung cancer. More than half of those in the cancer cohort had early Stage I or II lung cancer. CyPath® Lung detected multiple forms of cancer including adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and small cell lung cancer.
“The fact that CyPath® Lung can accurately predict lung cancer at an early stage in patients with small nodules is particularly important. Findings of lesions between six and 20 millimeters as a result of lung cancer screening can lead to unnecessary invasive procedures or a ‘watchful waiting’ period for patients,” 
said Vivienne Rebel, MD, PhD, bioAffinity Chief Medical and Science Officer and Executive Vice President. “Our test is intended for use with patients who display these indeterminant nodules to increase the accuracy of lung cancer screening and provide certainty for patients and their physicians.”
“CyPath® Lung uses an automated flow-based approach combined with machine learning that can be put into routine lab use without requiring expert evaluation of samples or being subject to operator bias,” said Madeleine Lemieux, PhD, who is first author and led development of the automated analysis used in CyPath® Lung. “The entire sample is rapidly analyzed which ensures maximal sensitivity. The automated, numerical analysis captures complex interactions between lung cancer and the micro-environment to reliably predict the presence of lung cancer that would not be possible for even expert individuals to do from visual flow data.”
Before working with bioAffinity Technologies, Dr. Lemieux was a computational biologist at the Dana Farber Institute and Harvard Medical School. She has contributed to more than 40 publications leveraging data from high-throughput platforms. Dr. Lemieux and Dr. Rebel began their successful collaboration during their doctoral studies.
CyPath® Lung uses flow cytometry, a method able to interrogate individual cells in a fraction of a second, and automated analysis to identify parameters in sputum that are indicative of cancer. Unlike genomic or other molecular markers used in liquid biopsies, bioAffinity’s CyPath® technology does not collect genetic material for evaluation. Instead, CyPath® Lung analyzes the lung micro-environment and identifies whole cell populations that indicate cancer is present in the lung.
About bioAffinity Technologies, Inc.
bioAffinity Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIAF; BIAFW) addresses the need for noninvasive diagnosis of early-stage cancer and diseases of the lung and targeted cancer treatment. The Company’s first product, CyPath® Lung, is a non-invasive test that has shown high sensitivity and specificity for the detection of early-stage lung cancer. Precision Pathology Services licensed and developed CyPath® Lung as a Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) and has begun test marketing in Texas. OncoSelect® Therapeutics, LLC, a subsidiary of bioAffinity Technologies, is advancing its discoveries shown in vitro to kill cancer cells without harm to normal cells. Research and optimization of the Company’s platform technologies are conducted in its laboratories at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
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