Artificial intelligence will help to read skin tests - Innovation Origins

People with allergy symptoms can breathe a sigh of relief – thanks to the SkinLogic diagnostic solution co-created by a team from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, it will be possible to conduct skin allergy tests more efficiently and obtain more reliable results, the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) writes in a press release. A great number of those who are allergic or suspect that they might be allergic know this pattern all too well – a visit to a specialist, puncturing with special knife fragments of the forearm on which drops of allergen have been applied, twenty minutes of waiting for the result, and finally – measuring the bubbles with a ruler. Researchers from WUT, together with a team of Prof. Jacek Stępnień (Milton Essex) and researchers from the Military Medical Institute, have come up with a solution that is supposed to help improve this pattern. From an IT point of view, SkinLogic is a data processing system. It is based on a device consisting of a tripod and two cameras: video and thermal imaging.