Lung Cancer Detection by an Electronic Nose

Part 1: project profile

Project name

Lung Cancer Detection by an Electronic Nose

Project short description

The electronic nose is an instrument able to detect and recognize odors, that is the volatile substances in the atmosphere or emitted by the analyzed substance. In this project, we use an electronic nose based on an array of six MOS sensors, to recognize the presence of lung cancer in breaths' subjects, diagnosing the disease with a non invasive and low cost method.

The next objective of the research consists in understanding how early the electronic nose is able to detect the presence of lung cancer, performing in such a way an early diagnosis.

Dates

Start date: 2007/01/01

End date: --

Website(s)

At the moment no website avaible

People involved

Project head(s)

A. Bonarini - User:AndreaBonarini

M. Matteucci - User:MatteoMatteucci

Other Politecnico di Milano people

R. Blatt - User:RossellaBlatt

Students currently working on the project

Claudio Trameri - User:ClaudioTrameri

Mauro Verdirosa - User:MauroVerdirosa

External personnel:

Dott. Ugo Pastorino (Istituto dei Tumori - Milano)

Dott. Elisa Calabrò (Istituto dei Tumori - Milano)

Dott. Matteo Della Torre (SACMI - Imola)

Laboratory work and risk analysis

Laboratory work for this project will be mainly performed at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, where the acquisistion of subjects' breath, both sick and healthy will be done. For this kind of work, there are not potential risks.

Part 2: project description

Link to project documents and files

Results obtained from this work have been presented at different conferences:

• Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2008), Patras, Greece

The 5th Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2008) is a sub-conference of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intteligence (ECAI 2008) that will be held at the University of Patras, Greece, from July 21st to 25th.

The presented paper will be soon available.

• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007), Orlando, FL, USA

Lung Cancer Identification by an Electronic Nose based on array of MOS Sensors, Blatt Rossella, Bonarini Andrea, Calabrò Elisa, Della Torre Matteo, Matteucci Matteo, Pastorino Ugo. Proceedings of the 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007), Orlando, FL, USA: Paper-IJCNN2007

Short presentation of the Lung Cancer Identification by an Electronic Nose based on an array of MOS Sensors paper: Presentation-IJCNN2007

• International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (WILF 2007), Ruta di Camogli, Genova, Italy

Fuzzy k-NN Lung Cancer Identification by an Electronic Nose, Blatt Rossella, Bonarini Andrea, Calabrò Elisa, Della Torre Matteo, Matteucci Matteo, Pastorino Ugo. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, WILF 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNAI), LNAI 4578, pages 261-268, Springer. Camogli (GE), Italy, July 2007.