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IIT Students develop mobile app that detects skin cancer, diseases
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A mobile phone application which can assist clinicians perform
fast and accurate diagnosis of skin cancers and ailments has been developed by
IIT Kharagpur students.
The application 'ClipOCam-Derma', which can be used on any
smartphone, has been developed in the School of Medical Science and Technology
at IIT Kharagpur, led by research scholar Debdoot Sheet.
"Being a portable and affordable solution, it can be used by
trained health care workers to reach out to elderly and patients in mobility
restricted areas for health care delivery," Sheet told PTI.
The mobile app, which will be launched in the market after
regulatory approvals, can help physicians speed up diagnosis and handle more
patients within a shorter time.
The innovation has won the 'GE Edison Challenge 2013' recently in
Bangalore and has been awarded an incubation prize of Rs. 10 lakhs.
Along with the mobile app, a clip-on device is attached to the
handset which illuminates the patient's skin using a colourful flash while the
phone camera takes a sequence of images The images are then uploaded from the
phone to the 'DRICTION' computational imaging service on the cloud.
They are then processed to provide consolidated diagnostic
information to skilled paramedics, assisting them with assessing potential
nature and risk of lesions, and suggesting an expert physician's intervention in
critical cases.
The researchers say the app can be used by semi-skilled
paramedics working in rural and primary healthcare centres.
It will assist in fast and high-precision screening of skin
lesions and abnormalities like cancers, psoriasis, scaling, keratinisation,
melanoma, inflammation, ulcers, lipoma, healing and non-healing wounds, and
heavy-metal induced dysplasia, all of which may or may not be evidently visible
on the surface.
"This in effect will facilitate high-throughput screening of
patients at resource constrained or remotely located healthcare centers lacking
even minimal access to expert physicians, but witnessing an exponential rise in
deaths related to complex skin abnormalities," Sheet said.
The app will not only help in diagnosis but also monitoring the
control of the skin disease.
"We will sell it to hospital chains and healthcare service
providers in India," he said.
It can also be used in countries like Africa where health
infrastructure is very poor.
On the accuracy of the product, the researcher said tests have
found it to be 99 percent accurate.
( Courtesy :
http://gadgets.ndtv.com )
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