Five research scholars
and scientists from Aurangabad have quite recently won a Patent from Australia for an exceedingly innovative non-contact
type thermal imaging system, which is a cost-effective thermal imaging system
with multiple biomedical applications.
With the help of their
innovation, the research scholars are looking forward to reducing the
dependency of India’s healthcare sector on expensive thermal imaging devices
coming from abroad. The researchers have mentioned that this system has been
designed and developed for diagnostic support leading to disease detection.
According to them, the system is capable of avoiding invasive diagnostic
methods such as biopsies in the initial stages.
Shazia Shaikh, one of
the research scholars, who is pursuing her Ph.D., said that while she was doing
the M.Phil work on the processing of thermal images for disease detection, she
found it arduous to obtain the thermal images of skin cancer. She had to get
some of the images from F J Gonzalez, who is a research scientist from San Luis
Potosí in Mexico.
While working on the
innovation, Shazia Shaikh realized that buying a thermal camera can prove to be
a costly affair for many research students. Therefore, they all started working
efficiently on the possibility of designing and developing an effective and
affordable thermal camera to generate their database of thermal images. The
idea and concept were well supported by Shaikh’s guide, Dr. Ramesh Manza, who
is an assistant professor in the computer science department of Babasaheb
Ambedkar Marathwada University and Dr. Nazneen Akhter, who is an assistant
professor at Maulana Azad College’s computer science department.
The research scholars
have stated that the device is ready to be used for medical applications, where
painless, non-invasive, and contactless diagnostic support is needed for
studying the underlying health conditions, which are marked by the changes in
the body surface temperature. They believe that the device can indeed play a
crucial role in the early detection of diseases like diabetes, skin cancer, to
name a few.
The fact that the
thermal imaging system may reduce the frequencies of invasive diagnosis has
impressed the concerned patenting authorities in this scenario. For view source: https://www.kashishipr.com/blog/amt-wins-patents-for-chemical-vapor-smoothing-in-europe/
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