TITLE:
Skin Cancer Detection Using Temperature Variation Analysis
AUTHORS:
Ahmed M. Nasr Moustafa, Hamed Hamid Muhammed, Moustapha Hassan
KEYWORDS:
Infrared; Skin Cancer; Melanoma; Thermal; Detection
JOURNAL NAME:
Engineering,
Vol.5 No.10B,
October
23,
2013
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.