Re:Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award
by dharma1 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:35AM
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Could you do this with looking at post-cooling images from something like FLIR One? http://www.flir.com/flirone/
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Re:Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award
by crispyambulance on Thursday November 09, 2017 @11:07AM
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Maybe.
If I understand correctly, the process they're using is something like the following...
1) Cool the skin down to some depth by applying an icepack
2) Remove icepack and take a video of the skin with infra-red (a temperature map) as the skin reaches thermal equilibrium.
3) Process the "stack" of images by measuring the thermal conductivity at each point-- you do this by getting a curve of the temperature for each point.
This will give you a map of structures underneath the skin which have different material properties (a different thermal conductivity).
Re:Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award
by giarc on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:52AM
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Perhaps, but from the video it appears they have some software that helps with diagnoses as well. Something the Flir camera wouldn't have (at least not specific to skin cancer).
Re:Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award
by dharma1 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:57AM
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Not trying to belittle the project, it's very cool - just might make sense to use existing commodity hardware. Yes the software would be crucial - FLIR One + Android/iOS software for analysis would be a quick route to market