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Newsletter 3rd quarter 2021

Team News

International

Project Presentations

  • PASSION Symposium Preparation at the International Society of Teledermatology Conference. The program will be as follows:
    • Presentation of the PASSION Project: Invited speaker - Myself
    • AI in Dermatology: Somesh Gupta
    • Federated Learning: Sharad Kumar
    • Data Collection in Madagascar/Guinea: Dr. Ibrahima (accepted), Professor Rapelanoro

Presentations

  • Annual Academy of Medicine in Antananarivo - August 10
  • SSDV Annual Meeting - August 25-27 (Poster, Virtual): SGDV Congress
  • EADV Annual Meeting in September (Poster, Virtual)

Future Presentations

  • International Congress of Dermatology - November 12 by Ibrahima Traoré MD: ICD 2021 Program

Updates from Data Collection Centers and Technical Team

  • SSDV Annual Meeting - August 25-27 (Poster, Virtual): SGDV Congress
  • EADV Annual Meeting in September (Poster, Virtual)

Guinea

  • Update on Case Collection (July-August-September): 32 cases (Total: 160 cases)
    • Impetigo: 2, Tinea Capitis: 8, Scabies: 9, Tinea Corporis: 1, Intertrigo (Finger): 1, Tinea Pedis: 1, Onychomycosis: 2, Atopic Dermatitis: 4, Eczema: 1, Furuncle: 1, Chicken Pox: 1, Pitted Keratolysis: 1

Tanzania

  • Update on Case Collection: Total number of cases 25
    • Impetigo: 3, Tinea: 6, Scabies: 4, Atopic Dermatitis/Eczema: 12

Malawi

  • Ethical Protocol Submitted in Mid-August and Approved

Madagascar

  • Update on Case Collection:
    • Total number of cases over the period: 158
    • Atopic Dermatitis: 32, Eczema: 28, Scabies: 34, Fungal: 22, Intertrigo: 2, Seborrheic Dermatitis: 5, Nail Fungal: 6, Tinea Capitis: 3, Pityriasis Versicolor: 7, Pityriasis Alba: 1, Impetigo: 2, Impetiginization: 12, Insect Bites: 2
    • 251 is the current total of cases in my.crf.one

Updates from Technical Team

  1. Released an app for the PASSION Project for Android. The underlying model still uses some of the work done by the Indian Team as the model for PASSION-specific diseases requires more data. Discussion ongoing on hosting the Passion app - whether by the department in Basel or a separate AWS-like cloud server.

  2. Preliminary work for a questionnaire to supplement the image model. Ideally, seeking higher accuracy in the image recognition model and then using the questionnaire to bring further improvements. More data is needed for this.

  3. Experimentation started with Federated Learning model code from NVIDIA and Google TensorFlow. This substantial amount of work will continue for the next 6-9 months as the integration into the NVIDIA infrastructure is quite involved. Planning to obtain preliminary test results for a canned version of federated learning on TensorFlow by the end of the year.

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