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Review of the efficacy of infrared thermography for screening infectious diseases with applications to COVID-19

Purpose: The recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which spread across the globe in a very short period of time, revealed that the transmission control of disease is a crucial step to prevent an outbreak and effective screening for viral infectious diseases is necessary. Since the sev...

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Autores principales: Khaksari, Kosar, Nguyen, Thien, Hill, Brian, Quang, Timothy, Perreault, John, Gorti, Viswanath, Malpani, Ravi, Blick, Emily, González Cano, Tomás, Shadgan, Babak, Gandjbakhche, Amir H.
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Publicado: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7995646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33786335
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.8.S1.010901
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author Khaksari, Kosar
Nguyen, Thien
Hill, Brian
Quang, Timothy
Perreault, John
Gorti, Viswanath
Malpani, Ravi
Blick, Emily
González Cano, Tomás
Shadgan, Babak
Gandjbakhche, Amir H.
author_facet Khaksari, Kosar
Nguyen, Thien
Hill, Brian
Quang, Timothy
Perreault, John
Gorti, Viswanath
Malpani, Ravi
Blick, Emily
González Cano, Tomás
Shadgan, Babak
Gandjbakhche, Amir H.
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description Purpose: The recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which spread across the globe in a very short period of time, revealed that the transmission control of disease is a crucial step to prevent an outbreak and effective screening for viral infectious diseases is necessary. Since the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, infrared thermography (IRT) has been considered a gold standard method for screening febrile individuals at the time of pandemics. The objective of this review is to evaluate the efficacy of IRT for screening infectious diseases with specific applications to COVID-19. Approach: A literature review was performed in Google Scholar, PubMed, and ScienceDirect to search for studies evaluating IRT screening from 2002 to present using relevant keywords. Additional literature searches were done to evaluate IRT in comparison to traditional core body temperature measurements and assess the benefits of measuring additional vital signs for infectious disease screening. Results: Studies have reported on the unreliability of IRT due to poor sensitivity and specificity in detecting true core body temperature and its inability to identify asymptomatic carriers. Airport mass screening using IRT was conducted during occurrences of SARS, Dengue, Swine Flu, and Ebola with reported sensitivities as low as zero. Other studies reported that screening other vital signs such as heart and respiratory rates can lead to more robust methods for early infection detection. Conclusions: Studies evaluating IRT showed varied results in its efficacy for screening infectious diseases. This suggests the need to assess additional physiological parameters to increase the sensitivity and specificity of non-invasive biosensors.
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spelling pubmed-79956462021-03-29 Review of the efficacy of infrared thermography for screening infectious diseases with applications to COVID-19 Khaksari, Kosar Nguyen, Thien Hill, Brian Quang, Timothy Perreault, John Gorti, Viswanath Malpani, Ravi Blick, Emily González Cano, Tomás Shadgan, Babak Gandjbakhche, Amir H. J Med Imaging (Bellingham) Review Papers Purpose: The recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which spread across the globe in a very short period of time, revealed that the transmission control of disease is a crucial step to prevent an outbreak and effective screening for viral infectious diseases is necessary. Since the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, infrared thermography (IRT) has been considered a gold standard method for screening febrile individuals at the time of pandemics. The objective of this review is to evaluate the efficacy of IRT for screening infectious diseases with specific applications to COVID-19. Approach: A literature review was performed in Google Scholar, PubMed, and ScienceDirect to search for studies evaluating IRT screening from 2002 to present using relevant keywords. Additional literature searches were done to evaluate IRT in comparison to traditional core body temperature measurements and assess the benefits of measuring additional vital signs for infectious disease screening. Results: Studies have reported on the unreliability of IRT due to poor sensitivity and specificity in detecting true core body temperature and its inability to identify asymptomatic carriers. Airport mass screening using IRT was conducted during occurrences of SARS, Dengue, Swine Flu, and Ebola with reported sensitivities as low as zero. Other studies reported that screening other vital signs such as heart and respiratory rates can lead to more robust methods for early infection detection. Conclusions: Studies evaluating IRT showed varied results in its efficacy for screening infectious diseases. This suggests the need to assess additional physiological parameters to increase the sensitivity and specificity of non-invasive biosensors. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers 2021-03-25 2021-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7995646/ /pubmed/33786335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.8.S1.010901 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI.
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Khaksari, Kosar
Nguyen, Thien
Hill, Brian
Quang, Timothy
Perreault, John
Gorti, Viswanath
Malpani, Ravi
Blick, Emily
González Cano, Tomás
Shadgan, Babak
Gandjbakhche, Amir H.
Review of the efficacy of infrared thermography for screening infectious diseases with applications to COVID-19
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title_short Review of the efficacy of infrared thermography for screening infectious diseases with applications to COVID-19
title_sort review of the efficacy of infrared thermography for screening infectious diseases with applications to covid-19
topic Review Papers
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7995646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33786335
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.8.S1.010901
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