Newton Fund - The Development of a Portable THERMOgraphy-based Health DeTECTion Application (THERMOTECT) in breast cancer screening in India

牛顿基金 - 在印度乳腺癌筛查中开发便携式热成像健康检测应用程序 (THERMOTECT)

• 批准号: 103706
• 金额: $ 38.21万
• 依托单位: INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=103706
• 关键词: Newton; Fund; Development; Portable; THERMOgraphy

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, with nearly 1.7 million new cases diagnosed in 2012 (second most common cancer overall). This represents about 12% of all new cancer cases and 25% of all cancers in women. According to the World Health Organisation, although breast cancer is thought to be a disease of the developed world, almost 50% of breast cancer cases and 58% of deaths occur in less developed countries. This includes India, where for every two women newly diagnosed with breast cancer in India, one of them will die. This innovative project will develop a novel, portable thermography–based health detection application for use as a highly efficient, less invasive, more convenient and safer breast cancer screening tool, specifically for use in rural parts of India as well as other developing countries. Hence the project makes a direct contribution to early detection of breast cancer and, therefore, towards the improvement of the welfare of India’s female population.The new screening system will be based on a portable mobile device application that is connected to a cloud server that will host an artificial intelligent (AI) model classifier. The client platform consists of a windows-based device and a thermographic camera, which is securely linked via a wireless connection to the cloud. ThermoTECT aims to bring portable breast cancer screening to people in rural and remote areas. The proposal for India is for healthcare personnel to take the mobile device to rural areas and perform screening. Not only does this bring health care closer to the grassroots, it eliminates the need for people to make repeated long journeys to urban cities for routine screening. This allows for health development while reducing the carbon footprint of such repeated journeys.This project makes a direct contribution to early detection of breast cancer in India and therefore the improvement of the welfare of India’s female population. With a quick breast cancer detection method, people will be less deterred to attend a consultation. In Indian culture, it is not uncommon for women to be cornerstones of families and primary care providers for children. A higher death rate for women has a direct relationship with children (future economic leaders) not reaching full potential, ending up in welfare and poverty, higher crime rate and divided families. Therefore, a reduction in death rate from breast cancer for Indian women would lead to a reduction in poverty for India.

乳腺癌是全球女性最常见的癌症，在2012年被诊断出近170万例新病例（总体上是第二个最常见的癌症）。这约占所有新癌症病例中的12％，女性中所有癌症的25％。根据世界卫生组织的研究，尽管乳腺癌被认为是发达国家的疾病，但乳腺癌病例中有50％和58％的死亡发生在不太发达国家。这包括印度，在印度新诊断出患有乳腺癌的两名妇女中，其中一个将死亡。这个创新的项目将开发出一种基于便携式热摄影的新型健康检测应用程序，以用作高效，侵入性，更便捷，更便捷和更安全的乳腺癌筛查工具，专门用于印度和其他发展中国家的粗糙部分。因此，该项目为乳腺癌的早期发现做出了直接贡献，因此，对新筛选系统将基于连接到云服务器的便携式移动设备应用程序，该应用程序将托管人工智能（AI）模型分类器。客户端平台由基于Windows的设备和一个热量照相机组成，该设备通过与云的无线连接牢固地链接。 Thermotect旨在将便携式乳腺癌筛查带给农村和偏远地区的人们。印度的提议是医疗人员将移动设备带到粗糙区域并进行筛查。这不仅使医疗保健更接近基层，而且消除了人们重复长途旅行到城市城市进行常规筛查的需求。这允许健康发展，同时减少这种反复旅行的碳足迹。该项目直接贡献了印度对乳腺癌的早期检测，因此改善了印度女性人口的福利。通过快速的乳腺癌检测方法，人们将不太决心参加咨询。在印度文化中，妇女成为家庭和儿童初级保健提供者的基石并不少见。妇女的死亡率更高，与儿童（未来的经济领导人）之间没有直接关系，最终以福利和贫困，更高的犯罪率和分裂的家庭脱颖而出。因此，印度妇女的乳腺癌死亡率降低将导致印度贫困减少。