Skin-Tumour Classification with Functional Infrared Imaging: Institute of Medical Engineering

Skin-Tumour Classification with Functional Infrared Imaging

Annually 133.000 people world-wide get sick on malign melanoma, tendency increasing. The purpose of this project is the early diagnosis of malignant skin cancer. At the moment the dermatologists are screening for anomalies at the relevant lesion by examining the skin area with a microscope. To determine changes, another scan has to be taken in a follow-up session after a time period of about 15-20 weeks. Today’s visual diagnostic decision is based on the pragmatic ABCD-approach (Asymmetry, Border, Colour, and Diameter). However, there is no adequate and sound non-invasive way to find out, if a skin spot is either malign or benign. If the visual approach corroborates a suspicion of skin cancer, histology is needed to make explicit diagnosis. To avoid unnecessary surgeries (on false positive alarm) and to initiate necessary surgeries in early stages a new diagnostic screening approach is investigated in this project.

Original image and IR images of the basalioma sequel after 50 s, 150 s and 300 s of thermo-regulation

Former Project Members

Steffen Schumann (University of Basel, principle investigator)
Lucas Pfaffmann (RheinAhrCampus Remagen, principle investigator)
Thorsten M. Buzug (University of Luebeck)

Cooperations

Prof. Dr. Uwe Reinhold (Dermato-onkologische Praxisklinik Bonn, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen Ruhlmann (Medical Center Bonn, Germany)

Publications

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2006[ to top ]

Buzug, T. M., Schumann, S., Pfaffmann, L., Reinhold, U. and Ruhlmann, J.: Skin-Tumour Classification with Functional Infrared Imaging, 313–322, 2006.
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@inproceedings{Buzug2006b, address = {Honolulu, Hawaii}, author = {Buzug, T. M. and Schumann, S. and Pfaffmann, L. and Reinhold, U. and Ruhlmann, J.}, booktitle = {Signal and Image Processing}, keywords = {IMT}, month = {08}, pages = {313-322}, publisher = {ACTA Press, Anaheim}, series = {International Association of Science and Technology for Development}, title = {Skin-Tumour Classification with Functional Infrared Imaging}, year = 2006 }
Buzug, T., Schumann, S., Pfaffmann, L., Reinhold, U. and Ruhlmann, J.: Functional Infrared Imaging for Skin-Cancer Screening, 2766–2769, 2006, DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259895.
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@inproceedings{Buzug2006c, abstract = {Annually 133.000 people world-wide get sick on malign melanoma, tendency increasing. The purpose of this study is the early diagnosis of malignant skin cancer. At the moment the dermatologists are screening for anomalies at the relevant lesion by examining the skin area with a microscope. To determine changes, another scan has to be taken in a follow-up session after a time period of about 15-20 weeks. Today's visual diagnostic decision is based on the pragmatic ABCD approach (Asymmetry, Border, Colour, and Diameter). However, there is no adequate and sound non-invasive way to find out, if a skin spot is either malign or benign. If the visual approach corroborates a suspicion of skin cancer, histology is needed to make explicit diagnosis. To avoid unnecessary surgeries (on false positive alarm) and to initiate necessary surgeries in early stages a new diagnostic screening approach is presented here. Based on the fact that malign melanoma have higher metabolism as well as increased blood flow, it has been conjectured that malign melanoma have slightly higher temperature compared to the healthy skin that can be measured by high resolution functional infrared imaging}, author = {Buzug, T.M. and Schumann, S. and Pfaffmann, L. and Reinhold, U. and Ruhlmann, J.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society}, keywords = {IMT}, month = {08}, pages = {2766-2769}, title = {Functional Infrared Imaging for Skin-Cancer Screening}, year = 2006 }

2005[ to top ]

Buzug, T. and Kohl-Bareis, M.: Medical Imaging in the [10¹²Hz - 10¹⁴Hz] Domain, 1728–1731, 2005, DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616778.
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@inproceedings{Buzug2005e, abstract = {Enormous efforts are made to achieve advances in image quality and acquisition time of today's standard medical imaging modalities as X-ray fluoroscopy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance and ultrasound. However, new principal diagnostic insights cannot be expected from the linear extension of the physical principles of these methods. In this paper a review is given on imaging modalities in the 1012 Hz - 1014 Hz domain that include new physical principles as terahertz and diffuse optical imaging or well known principles - that had been rejected some years ago and are recently raised to interest by detector advances - as thermography}, author = {Buzug, T.M. and Kohl-Bareis, M.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society}, keywords = {BuzugThorsten}, month = {01}, pages = {1728-1731}, title = {Medical Imaging in the [1012Hz - 1014Hz] Domain}, year = 2005 }
Schumann, S., .Pfaffmann, L., Marklewitz, M., Reinhold, U., Ruhlmann, J. and Buzug, T. M.: Skin-Cancer Detection Using Thermographic Images, 1529–1530, 2005.
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@inproceedings{Schumann2005b, author = {Schumann, S. and .Pfaffmann, L and Marklewitz, M. and Reinhold, U. and Ruhlmann, J. and Buzug, T. M.}, booktitle = {Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik Jahrestagung}, keywords = {BuzugThorsten}, number = 2, pages = {1529-1530}, title = {Skin-Cancer Detection Using Thermographic Images}, volume = 50, year = 2005 }
Buzug, T. M., Holz, D., Kohl-Bareis, M. and Schmitz, G.: Non-Standard Medical Imaging Modalities, 22–27, 2005.
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@inproceedings{Buzug2005f, address = {Berlin}, author = {Buzug, T. M. and Holz, D. and Kohl-Bareis, M. and Schmitz, G.}, booktitle = {Aktuelle Methoden der Laser- und Medizinphysik: 2. Remagener Physiktage 2004}, editor = {et al., U. Hartmann}, keywords = {BuzugThorsten}, pages = {22-27}, publisher = {VDE-Verlag}, title = {Non-Standard Medical Imaging Modalities}, year = 2005 }
Schumann, S., Pfaffmann, L., Reinhold, U., Marklewitz, M., Ruhlmann, J. and Buzug, T. M.: Thermography-Based Detection of Skin Cancer, 28–33, 2005.
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@inproceedings{Schumann2005a, address = {Berlin}, author = {Schumann, S. and Pfaffmann, L. and Reinhold, U. and Marklewitz, M. and Ruhlmann, J. and Buzug, T. M.}, booktitle = {Aktuelle Methoden der Laser- und Medizinphysik: 2. Remagener Physiktage 2004}, editor = {et al., U. Hartmann}, keywords = {BuzugThorsten}, pages = {28-33}, publisher = {VDE-Verlag}, title = {Thermography-Based Detection of Skin Cancer}, year = 2005 }