Statistical Study on Human Temperature Measurement by Infrared Thermography

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23640%2F22%3A43967547" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23640/22:43967547 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/s22218395" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/s22218395</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22218395" target="_blank" >10.3390/s22218395</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Statistical Study on Human Temperature Measurement by Infrared Thermography

Original language description

Increased temperature in humans is the symptom of many infectious diseases and it is thus an important diagnostic tool. Infrared temperature measurement methods have been developed and applied over long periods due to their advantage of non-contact and fast measurements. This study deals with a statistical evaluation of the possibilities and limitations of infrared/thermographic human temperature measurement. A short review of the use of infrared temperature measurement in medical applications is provided. Experiments and statistics-based evaluation to confirm the expected accuracy and limits of thermography-based human temperature measurement are introduced. The results presented in this study show that the standard deviation of the thermographic measurement of the eyes maximum temperature was 0.4–0.9 °C and the mean values differences from the armpit measurement were up to 0.5 °C, based on the used IR camera, even though near ideal measurement conditions and permanent blackbody correction were used. It was also shown that a certain number of outliers must be assumed in such measurements. Extended analyses including simulations of true negative/false positive, sensitivity/specificity and receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves are presented. The statistical evaluation as well as the extended analyses show that maximum eyes temperature is more relevant than a forehead temperature examination.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10103 - Statistics and probability

Project

<a href="/en/project/VI04000029" target="_blank" >VI04000029: Security research for the effective use of thermal imagers in the event of epidemic threats and crisis situations</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

SENSORS

ISSN

1424-8220

e-ISSN

1424-8220

Volume of the periodical

22

Issue of the periodical within the volume

21

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

nestrankovano

UT code for WoS article

000883544700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85141865105