An initial study on the agreement of body temperatures measured by infrared cameras and oral thermometry

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 11901 - 10
• Main Authors: Adams, Scott, Bucknall, Tracey, Kouzani, Abbas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 07.06.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/166/985; 692/1807/1490; 692/700/478/2772; Accuracy; Body temperature; Body Temperature - physiology; Cameras; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - diagnosis; COVID-19 - prevention & control; Fever; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Infrared Rays; Mass Screening - methods; multidisciplinary; Observational studies; Pandemics; SARS-CoV-2 - pathogenicity; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Skin Temperature - physiology; Thermography; Thermometers

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the rapid adoption and rollout of thermal camera-based Infrared Thermography (IRT) systems for fever detection. These systems use facial infrared emissions to detect individuals exhibiting an elevated core-body temperature, which is present in many symptomatic presen...