Lock-in thermal imaging for the early-stage detection of cutaneous melanoma : a feasibility study

Bonmarin, Mathias; Le Gal, Frédérique-Anne

doi:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.01.008

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Lock-in thermal imaging for the early-stage detection of cutaneous melanoma : a feasibility study
Authors:	Bonmarin, Mathias Le Gal, Frédérique-Anne
DOI:	10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.01.008
Published in:	Computers in Biology and Medicine
Volume(Issue):	47
Page(s):	36
Pages to:	43
Issue Date:	2014
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0010-4825 1879-0534
Language:	English
Subjects:	Bio-heat; Biological system modelling; Medical diagnostic imaging; Thermal imaging; Early Detection of Cancer; Feasibility Study; Human; Skin Temperature; Thermodynamics; Thermography; Melanoma; Biological Model; Skin Neoplasm
Subject (DDC):	610: Medicine and health
Abstract:	This paper theoretically evaluates lock-in thermal imaging for the early-stage detection of cutaneous melanoma. Lock-in thermal imaging is based on the periodic thermal excitation of the specimen under test. Resulting surface temperature oscillations are recorded with an infrared camera and allow the detection of variations of the sample's thermophysical properties under the surface. In this paper, the steady-state and transient skin surface temperatures are numerically derived for a different stage of development of the melanoma lesion using a two-dimensional axisymmetric multilayer heat-transfer model. The transient skin surface temperature signals are demodulated according to the digital lock-in principle to compute both a phase and an amplitude image of the lesions. The phase image can be advantageously used to accurately detect cutaneous melanoma at an early stage of development while the maximal phase shift can give precious information about the lesion invasion depth. The ability of lock-in thermal imaging to suppress disturbing subcutaneous thermal signals is demonstrated. The method is compared with the previously proposed pulse-based approaches, and the influence of the modulation frequency is further discussed.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/5471
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	School of Engineering
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Computational Physics (ICP)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Engineering

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Bonmarin, M., & Le Gal, F.-A. (2014). Lock-in thermal imaging for the early-stage detection of cutaneous melanoma : a feasibility study. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 47, 36–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.01.008

Bonmarin, M. and Le Gal, F.-A. (2014) ‘Lock-in thermal imaging for the early-stage detection of cutaneous melanoma : a feasibility study’, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 47, pp. 36–43. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.01.008.

M. Bonmarin and F.-A. Le Gal, “Lock-in thermal imaging for the early-stage detection of cutaneous melanoma : a feasibility study,” Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 47, pp. 36–43, 2014, doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.01.008.

BONMARIN, Mathias und Frédérique-Anne LE GAL, 2014. Lock-in thermal imaging for the early-stage detection of cutaneous melanoma : a feasibility study. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 2014. Bd. 47, S. 36–43. DOI 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.01.008

Bonmarin, Mathias, and Frédérique-Anne Le Gal. 2014. “Lock-in Thermal Imaging for the Early-Stage Detection of Cutaneous Melanoma : A Feasibility Study.” Computers in Biology and Medicine 47: 36–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.01.008.

Bonmarin, Mathias, and Frédérique-Anne Le Gal. “Lock-in Thermal Imaging for the Early-Stage Detection of Cutaneous Melanoma : A Feasibility Study.” Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 47, 2014, pp. 36–43, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.01.008.