Dielectric Properties of Healthy Human Skin and Challenges towards Dermal Anomaly Detection using Electromagnetic Techniques

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The subject talk aims to present the complex nature of the human body's largest organ (skin) in terms of its dielectric properties. Skin is the primary barrier to the external environment and protects vital organs from harmful organisms. Any malignancy damaging this first line of defence would require an urgent clinical response. Therefore, as a pre-requisite towards building an electromagnetic skin cancer detection system, it is necessary to understand the dielectric nature of healthy skin and its variation across multiple body regions. The talk will discuss the statistical relationship between the dielectric properties of measured dermal regions and various bio-features, such as skin pigmentation, body weight and gender, observed across 50 healthy volunteers. The observations are aimed at assisting the development of an electromagnetic skin cancer detection system by identifying the causes of dielectric variations across different dermal measurement conditions. The interactive session will also address the measurement challenges and proper characterization procedures of this heterogeneous biological tissue in the clinical environment.


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  • Date: 16 Jun 2023
  • Time: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
  • All times are (UTC+10:00) Brisbane
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  • Starts 24 May 2023 12:00 AM
  • Ends 16 June 2023 03:00 PM
  • All times are (UTC+10:00) Brisbane
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Dr Akbar Naqvi Dr Akbar Naqvi

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Dielectric Properties of Healthy Human Skin and Challenges towards Dermal Anomaly Detection using EM Techniques

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Syed Akbar Raza Naqvi (PhD, M-IEEE) received his B.E and MS degree in Telecommunication engineering in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Dr Naqvi has extensive industrial experience in the Telecom sector and was actively involved in the Telenor 3G optic fibre network deployment in Pakistan during 2014-2015. He joined The University of Queensland in 2016 and was affiliated with the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering as a PhD student till he graduated in 2021. During his PhD, Dr Naqvi was involved in research on the development of a portable electromagnetic skin cancer detection system. The study predominantly dealt with in-vivo and in-vitro skin tissue characterization using near-field probes. Moreover, the project involved extensive utilization of data analytics and machine learning to develop a decision-making process for distinguishing between benign and malignant skin. To support the project development via external collaboration, Dr Naqvi was awarded the Richard Jago Memorial Funding in 2017. Recently, Dr Naqvi has been awarded the Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship and is associated with the Electromagnetic Innovation Group, where he is actively involved in extending his initial pilot study towards a large-scale skin cancer data acquisition and analysis research campaign. Dr. Naqvi is also serving as an IEEE APS Young Professional Ambassador for the year 2023 and is recently appointed as Vice Chair for IEEE MTT/APS Chapter Queensland.

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