IIT Kharagpur Develops Diagnostic Tools for Lung Diseases

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:00:13 +0000

IIT Kharagpur deveops diagnostic tools for interstitial lung diseases and lung cancer
Researchers at the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications, IIT Kharagpur have recently developed a decision support system to diagnose cancerous tumors and other diseased tissues in human lungs. While one system can refer to CT scan images to detect lung nodules and test them for the possibility of malignancy, the second software can detect interstitial lung disease patterns in chest HRCT images. The team has successfully tested both software systems at AIIMS, New Delhi with a success rate higher than 80%.
The advantages of these newly developed systems include their use of non-invasive and comparatively affordable methods of image analysis that would aid the radiologists to identify malignancies by reading growth in the lung nodules. The system can also identify interstitial disease patterns in HRCT images showing the lung tissue texture. Another added benefit is that the reference point is India centric, i.e. the medical images can database used for reference is taken from the Indian patient population. Data has been taken from PGIMER Chandigarh; mainly biopsy cases and foreign database such as LIDC-IDRI and MedGIFTILD have been used.
The malignancy detecting tool detects a lung nodule, segment the nodule and provides a way to modify segmentation, retrieve similar nodules from the database with their report assess the chances of malignancy of the nodule in question based on the retrieval results. The ILD tool is developed by incorporating feedback from expert radiologists to make it easy to use for non-techsavvy clinicians. The software has important modules like automatic segmentation of lung boundary, retrieval of similar segments from the database with their report and assess the probability of the pathological segment to be a particular ILD category based on the data retrieved. The mapping of disease is performed by doctors based on the ILD pattern and clinical inputs.
At present, the lung nodule detection rate and classification rate is 86% and 87%, respectively.The success rate for ILD classification is 84%. The researchers are working to further improve to conduct clinical trials on bigger sample sizes. The report has been published in more than13 International Journals and19 International Conferences in various stages of its development.

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Welcome 2019! Another Year of Development

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 10:54:08 +0000

Our best wishes for the Year 2019 to all our readers, advisory group and wellwishers. We have completed three years and this year has been very eventful; we have launched IC Foundation of Healthcare and Excellence (ICFHE), a not-for-profit organization for social interventions and are now connected to the community of 40,000 like-minded people. We have put this issue on the theme of “Innovation in Diabetes-Unmet needs“given India has 73 million population suffering from Diabetes and 50% of people are not even diagnosed properly which means 7% of the Indian population is diabetic. World’s 18% diabetics are in India, second largest in the world. At present, the world has 425 million diabetics which would become 629 million in the year 2045.

We intend to handle this menace by conducting awareness programs, find innovative methods to bring diagnostic tools and treatments at a lower cost with quality & behavior modification programs for preventive and curative measures.

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We intend to publish articles regularly of common interest and would also encourage the professionals in this field to share their experiences through our magazine. Our team participated in ESICON 2018, to learn latest on the diabetes treatment from the top experts. We have also surveyed the clinicians for their unmet needs and will soon be releasing the findings.

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IIT Kharagpur Develops Diagnostic Tools for Lung Diseases

Welcome 2019! Another Year of Development