Validating the Tele-diagnostic Potential of Affordable Thermography in a Big-data Data-enabled ICU

T Sethi, A Nagori, A Bhatnagar, P Gupta… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the Special Collection on eGovernment Innovations in India, 2017dl.acm.org
The potential for whole body thermal patterns in diagnosis of hemodynamic perfusion
disturbances in critical care as well as community settings is unexplored. In this study we
have combined an in-house digitized Big-data resource from ICU settings with Infra-red
thermography to derive novel inferences about the tele-diagnostic potential of IR
thermography in diagnosis of shock and perfusion disturbances. While Data-science and
Big-data are expected to revolutionize the next generation medicine and healthcare, the …
The potential for whole body thermal patterns in diagnosis of hemodynamic perfusion disturbances in critical care as well as community settings is unexplored. In this study we have combined an in-house digitized Big-data resource from ICU settings with Infra-red thermography to derive novel inferences about the tele-diagnostic potential of IR thermography in diagnosis of shock and perfusion disturbances. While Data-science and Big-data are expected to revolutionize the next generation medicine and healthcare, the scientific efforts towards building Big-data resources for enhancing patient safety and healthcare governance are missing, especially in developing countries. We addressed this challenge and describe our experience on deployment of Big-data warehousing and data-analytics software using lean pipelines developed using open-source technologies and their utility in deriving knowledge and high utility patterns from Affordable Infrared Thermography. These knowledge frameworks and potentially translatable technology were developed in the Pediatric Intensive Care environment through extensive cross-talk between expert clinicians and data-scientists. In this work, we first demonstrate the successful creation of a unique Pediatric ICU resource of over 60,000 hours of continuous multivariate monitoring data followed by validation of the potential of whole body IR thermography in diagnosis of hemodynamic compromise. These patterns were validated through linear mixed models, a state-of-the-art statistical method for longitudinal data. The validated technology is affordable, and can be coupled to smartphones thus providing a huge potential in tele-medicine and electronic governance in healthcare and has the potential to be deployed in a tele-medicine setting with capturing of whole body temperature patterns by Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers. Therefore, this can enable early diagnosis of critical conditions such as sepsis and shock that are commonly associated with epidemics such as Dengue hemorrhagic fever in developing countries such as India. These images can be remotely shared with expert physicians and data-analysts via telemedicine thus aiding decisions in the Critical Care as well as Community settings.
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