Suitability of frequency modulated thermal wave imaging for skin cancer detection—A theoretical prediction

Recent use of medical infrared thermography in skin neoplasms

“…Even though it was shown that IRT evaluation of stage I melanoma was achievable, with an accurate analysis of the thermograms, the presented model was not fully efficient in the detection of early stage melanoma. In a more recent study, the same author proposed the use of frequency modulated thermal wave imaging, for the detection of the abovementioned stages, in a 3D computational model. The active thermal imaging method proposed, displayed a low efficiency in the detection of ES I and CL II, being its identification only possible, when combined with the phase images acquired from the thermal signals.…”

“…The use of IRT dynamically appears to be a rising tendency in skin cancer studies, as a mean of improving thermal patterns, facilitating the detection and characterization of different skin cancer types.…”

Distinguishing melanocytic nevi from melanomas using static and dynamic infrared thermal imaging

“…Nonetheless, the developed methodology allowed the retrieval of static and dynamic thermal measurements that better characterize the skin lesion, instead of sustaining its diagnosis on a single thermogram visual assessment or a simple temperature measurement . Even though with a more intricate image analysis process, the distinctive parameters here included are still much simpler and directly acquired than the ones described on theoretical approaches …”

“…9 The use of IRT for the specific differentiation of melanoma and nevi lesions is a topic of research with unexploited potential, 10 since most recent publications focus on theoretical approaches for melanoma detection. [11][12][13][14][15][16] Articles concerning the clinical application of this technique present results based on populations little as one subject 17 and/or the sole implementation of a static methodology 18 with extremely basic image analysis strategies.…”

Finite element modeling of haptic thermography: A novel approach for brain tumor detection during minimally invasive neurosurgery

“…The reported data, revealed a significant temperature difference, up to , between the tumor tissue and the surrounding normal tissue (Kateb et al, 2009). Thermography is a developing diagnostic technique based on the measurements of temperature gradients in the tissue and is well established in breast cancers (Francis et al, 2014;Saniei et al, 2015), eye diseases (Gonnermann et al, 2012;Tan et al, 2009) and skin cancers detection (Bhowmik et al, 2015;Cholewka et al, 2013).…”