Skin Cancer Detection Using Temperature Variation Analysis

Ahmed M. Nasr Moustafa, Hamed Hamid Muhammed, Moustapha Hassan

Clinical Research Center Novum, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden.
Division of Informatics, Logistics and Management, School of Technology and Health STH, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.

DOI: 10.4236/eng.2013.510B004                

Abstract

In the medical field, new technologies are incorporated for the sole purpose of enhancing the quality of life for the patients and even for the normal healthy people. Infrared technology is one of the technologies that have some applications in both the medical and biological fields. In this work, the thermal infrared (IR) measurement is used to investigate the potential of skin cancer detection. IR enjoys non-invasive and non-contact advantages as well as favorable cost, apparently. It is also very well developed regarding the technological and methodological aspects. IR per se is an electro-metric radiation that all objects emit when their temperature is above the absolute zero. And the human body is not different in this regard. The IR range extends, ideally, to cover wavelengths from 800 nanometer to few hundred micrometer. Cancer, in modern life, has grown tangibly due to many factors, such as life expectancies increase, personal habits and ultraviolet radiation exposures among others. Moreover, the significant enhancement of technologies has helped identifying more types of cancers than before. The sole purpose of this work is to investigate further IR technology methods and applications not yet matured in skin cancer detection to enhance the detection ability with higher safety level.

Keywords

Infrared; Skin Cancer; Melanoma; Thermal; Detection

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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