Publications based Niramai Technology

Publications based on Niramai Technology

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Please Note: Niramai holds 36 granted patents in the area of thermal imaging and AI. The technical content and ideas in the below publications are protected by multiple patents. Reuse of any idea is highly discouraged.

Clinical and Technical publications are listed below in reverse chronological order. Full papers published in journals and conference proceedings are marked as (*J*). All are peer reviewed publications.

  1. (*J*) 2024-12: Evaluating Clinical Efficacy of Thermalytix as a Breast Cancer Screening Tool in Young Women. Journal of Young Women’s Breast Cancer and Health 1(1&2):p 58-65, Dec 2024. | DOI: 10.4103/YWBC.YWBC_12_24  (online pdf)
  2. 2024-12: AI based Thermalytix for management of Breast Pain in Primary Care, San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, SABCS 2024, Dec 10-13 2024, San Antonio, Texas, USA
  3. (*J*) 2024-11: Thermal Radiomics for Early Detection of Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using Infrared Thermography, Third International Conference of Artificial Intelligence over Infrared Imaging for Medical Applications, AIIIMA 2024, Virtual Event, November 9, 2024, Proceedings will be available as Springer Nature Book.
  4. (*J*) 2024-11: Generative Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Synthesizing High-Fidelity Breast Thermal Images,  Third International Conference of Artificial Intelligence over Infrared Imaging for Medical Applications, AIIIMA 2024, Virtual Event, November 9, 2024, Proceedings will be available as Springer Nature Book.
  5. (*J*) 2024-08: Quantitative insights from breast cancer screening of 100,000 women in India using an artificial intelligence-based tool, 29 August 2024, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4728961/v1]
  6. 2024-03: The Punjab Breast Cancer AI-digital Project : Implementing AI at scale for Population level screening for Breast Cancer, European Breast Cancer Conference, Milan Italy, March 2024 and European Journal of Cancer. 2024 Mar 1;200 (online pdf)
  7. 2024-03: Multi-modal AI-based imaging for improving breast cancer screening across breast densities: A pilot study. European Breast Cancer Conference, Milan Italy, March 2024 and European Journal of Cancer. 2024 Mar 1;200. (online pdf)
  8. 2024-03: Evaluating performance of an AI-enabled radiation-free test for detection of breast cancer in women younger than 45 years: A meta analysis of three prospective studies. European Breast Cancer Conference, Milan Italy, March 2024 and European Journal of Cancer. 2024 Mar 1;200. (online pdf)
  9. 2024-01: Evaluating Clinical Performance of Thermalytix in Women with Dense Breasts, 76th Annual Conference of Indian Radiological and Imaging Association, IRIA, Vijayawada, Jan 2024.
  10. 2024-01: A prospective study comparing performance of Thermalytix with Diffusion Weighted MRI to identify histologically proven breast malignancies, 76th Annual Conference of Indian Radiological and Imaging Association, IRIA, Vijayawada, Jan 2024. (video of the conference presentation)
  11. 2023-11: Efficacy of Thermalytix compared to standard imaging in detecting early breast cancer (T1,T2), 3rd Indian Cancer Congress, Nov 2023.
  12. 2023-11: Clinically-Effective, Affordable Breast Screening Solutions for Women in Resource-Constrained Settings: A Scoping Review, 3rd Indian Cancer Congress, Mumbai, 2-5 Nov 2023
  13. 2023-10: A real-world evaluation of the effectiveness of thermogram along with clinical breast examination in community-based breast cancer screening program, Dr Rahul Ravind, Journal of Annals of Oncology, Oct 2023 (online)
  14. (*J*) 2023-08: 3D-BreastNet: A Self-supervised Deep Learning Network for Reconstruction of 3D Breast Surface from 2D Thermal Images. In MICCAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence over Infrared Images for Medical Applications, AIIIMA 2023. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-44511-8_2
  15. 2023-07: What do Thermalytix Hotspots and Warmspots represent? A correlation with Ultrasonography, Dr. Meenakshi Paramasivan,  11th Annual Conference – The Association of Breast Surgeons of India, Ahmedabad, July 2023
  16. 2023-03: Multi-modal AI imaging for Improving Breast Cancer Screening across Breast Densities: A Pilot Study, European Breast Cancer Conference, Milan, Italy, March 2023
  17. (*J*) 2023-02: Book Chapter: Robust Data-Driven Region of Interest Segmentation for Breast Thermography. In Handbook of Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems: Springer Publication, Volume 2, 2023. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-27986-7_25
  18. (*J*) 2023-01: Artificial intelligence enhanced thermal breast imaging in the diagnosis of invasive breast cancer: a study of 2 case reports, European Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023. https://www.ejmcr.com/article/58835
  19. (*J*) 2023-01: A prospective evaluation of breast thermography enhanced by a novel machine learning technique for screening breast abnormalities in a general population of women presenting to a secondary care hospital, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Jan 2023. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2022.1050803/full
  20. 2022-12: Analyzing the Performance of Thermalytix, an AI-based Breast Cancer Screening Test in a Community Setting, San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, SABCS, Texas, Dec 2022 (https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/83/5_Supplement/P5-04-03/717441/Abstract-P5-04-03-Analyzing-the-performance-of)
  21. 2022-12: An Automated Risk Stratification System for Breast Cancer Screening using Thermalytix, San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, SABCS, Dec 2022 (https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/83/5_Supplement/P3-03-25/717325/Abstract-P3-03-25-An-Automated-Risk-Stratification)
  22. 2022-11: Real world evidence from a Breast Screening pilot for the underprivileged : Experiences from Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike hospitals, European Breast Cancer Conference, Nov 2022, Barcelona, Spain (https://www.ejcancer.com/article/S0959-8049(22)01428-9/fulltext)
  23. 2022-11: MaThAI : A MultiModal imaging combining Mammography and Thermalytix for better prioritization of mammography scans to detect early malignancies, European Breast Cancer Conference, Nov 2022, Barcelona, Spain (https://www.ejcancer.com/article/S0959-8049(22)01440-X/fulltext)
  24. (*J*) 2022-10: Feasibility and outcomes of using a Novel Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Breast Thermography technique, Thermalytix, in screening for breast abnormalities at primary health centres at the community level in South India” , International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, Oct 2022 https://www.ijcmph.com/index.php/ijcmph/article/view/10481
  25. 2022-07: Evaluating screening performance of artificial intelligence-based Thermalytix by comparing breast lesion sizes detected by Thermalytix with mammography, UK Imaging and Oncology, UKIO 2022, Liverpool UK.
  26. (*J*) 2022-07: Automated vascular analysis of breast thermograms with interpretable features. Journal of Medical Imaging (Bellingham). 2022 July  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35937560/
  27. 2022-00: Prospective evaluation of an affordable and portable artificial intelligence-based modality for breast cancer screening in women across breast densities, Abstract in 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting, https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.e13585
  28. 2022: Performance of artificial intelligence-based breast cancer screening in a community setting: a real-world evaluation study. The Lancet Oncology. 2022 Jul 1;23:S20. , in a community setting, The Lancet Oncology, ISSN: 1470-2045, Vol: 23, Page: S20, Published 2022
  29. 2021-10: Multicentric study to evaluate the effectiveness of Thermalytix as compared with standard screening modalities in subjects who show possible symptoms of suspected breast cancer. BMJ Open. 2021;11(10):e052098. Published Oct 2021, doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052098 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34667011/
  30. 2021-05: A Systematic Study to Evaluate the Benefit of using a Visualization Tool for Breast Thermography, http://www.uhlen.at/thermology-international/index.php?target=310253.htm,  Thermology International, American Academy of Thermology, May 2021
  31. 2021-04: Thermal Radiomics For Detection Of Axillary Lymph Node Metastases A Pilot Study, 10th Global Breast Cancer Conference (GBCC 10), April 8 – 10, 2021 I Grand Walkerhill Seoul, Korea https://gbcc.kr/1.GBCC%2010_Abstract_Book.pdf page 51 PO138
  32. 2021-00: Book Chapter: AIM for Breast Thermography, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2021, Springer Publication, https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-58080-3_251-1
  33. 2021-00: A prospective study of an AI-based breast cancer screening solution for resource- constrained settings. Abstract in ASCO Annual Meeting 2021. https://meetinglibrary.asco.org/record/200250/abstract
  34. 2020-12: Correlation of Thermalytix – an artificial intelligence based thermal breast screening tool in detecting a breast lesion as benign, malignant or normal, SABCS 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium International Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA, Dec 2020 (PS2-44).https://www.sabcs.org/Program/Poster-Sessions/Poster-Session-2 https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/81/4_Supplement/PS2-44
  35. (*J*) 2020-10: Observational Study to Evaluate the Clinical Efficacy of Thermalytix for Detecting Breast Cancer in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Women’, Journal of Clinical Oncology Global Oncology (JCO GO) from American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Oct 2020; 6:1472-1480. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33001739/
  36. (*J*) 2020-08: Robust Estimation of Breast Cancer Incidence Risk in Presence of Incomplete or Inaccurate Information. Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 21, no. 8 (2020): 2307-2313, 2020 http://journal.waocp.org/article_89221_d188bfc9c610ecd56cada96817d373bd.pdf,
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32856859/
  37. (*J*) 2020-07: Exploring deep learning networks for tumour segmentation in infrared images. Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal. 2020 Jul 2;17(3):153-68. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17686733.2019.1619355
  38. (*J*) 2020-03: Thermalytix—using AI to save lives, XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 26, no. 3 (2020): 38-41 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3383384
  39. (*J*) 2020-00: Personalized risk prediction for breast cancer pre-screening using artificial intelligence and thermal radiomics. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 2020; 105:101854, Elsevier. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32505418/
  40. 2019-12: A Non-Radiation Based Screening to Detect Dense Breasts. SABCS 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium International Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA, Dec 2019.https://sabcs19.posterview.com/nosl/i/P2-03-06 https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/80/4_Supplement/P2-03-06
  41. 2019-10: AI for early-stage breast cancer screening. ASCO Breakthrough Summit, Bangkok, Thailand, Oct 2019. Adjudged as top 50 presentations. https://meetinglibrary.asco.org/record/179341/abstract https://meetinglibrary.asco.org/record/179341/poster
  42. (*J*) 2019-00: Cascaded CNN for View Independent Breast Segmentation in Thermal Images. International Conf IEEE EMBC Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 2019; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31947281/
  43. 2018-12: Artificial Intelligence over thermal images for radiation-free breast cancer screening. SABCS 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium International Conference on Breast Cancer Research, Dec 2018. http://sabcs18.posterview.com/nosl/i/P6-02-12 ,http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/79/4_Supplement/P6-02-12
  44. 2018-04: Thermalytix: An Advanced Artificial Intelligence Based Solution for Non-Contact Breast Screening. International Conference on Breast Cancer Management, Amsterdam, February, 12-13, 2018. https://publications.waset.org/10008935/pdf
  45. 2018-04: Machine Learning over Thermal Images for Accurate Breast Cancer Screening, International Conference on Advances in Breast Cancer Treatments, Kyoto, Japan, April 26-27, 2018. https://waset.org/abstracts//93675
  46. (*J*) 2017-00: Book Chapter: Advances in breast thermography. In New Perspectives in Breast Imaging, InTech. 2017:91. doi:10.5772/intechopen.69198. https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/56218
  47. (*J*) 2016-12: Evaluation of efficacy of thermographic breast imaging in breast cancer : A Pilot Study, Breast Disease 2016, 36(4), 143-147,  https://doi.org/10.3233/BD-160236 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27767959/
  48. (*J*) 2016-10: Automatic determination of hormone receptor status in breast cancer using thermography. In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI 2016 Oct 17 (pp. 636-643). Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-46720-7_74
  49. (*J*) 2016-09: Automated blood vessel extraction in two-dimensional breast thermography. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2016 Sep 25 (pp. 380-384). IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7532383
  50. (*J*) 2016-00: Extraction of medically interpretable features for classification of malignancy in breast thermography. Annu Int Conf IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 2016;1062-1065. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28268508/
  51. (*J*) 2015-08: Semi-automated breast cancer tumor detection with thermographic video imaging,” IEEE Int. Conf. Engineering, Medicine and Biology Society, August 2015, Milan, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26736683
  52. 2015-07: Method for classifying cancerous and normal regions in breast thermography for small size tumors,” Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Asia Conference, July 6-10, 2015, Mamallapuram
  53. 2015-07: Initial evaluation of human supervised automated breast cancer screening using thermography,” Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Asia Conference, July 6-10, 2015, Mamallapuram.