Differential diagnostics of paraffin-embedded tissues by IR-THz spectroscopy and machine learning

The ability of diagnostics of melanoma and nevus based on spectral analysis of paraffin-embedded tissues in the 0.3-1.5 terahertz (THz) range has been carried out. The principal component analysis was applied to reduce the dimension of the feature space. A comparison of these spectra shows evident differences between samples. The possibility of applying the optical clearing to paraffin-embedded tissue for improving the visualization of the internal structure of tissue for diagnostic and research purposes is shown. In the studies, a sufficiently strong effect of optical clearing of paraffin-embedded muscle was obtained (63%).