System and apparatus for detecting diseases

A portable remote screening and disease detecting apparatus for performing a rapid, non-invasive, point-of-care test for detecting the presence of a specific disease or medical condition in an individual comprising:

• one or more sensors for measuring wavelengths of light emanating from skin of an individual;
• one or more sensors for measuring volatile organic compounds present in the individual's breath, oral cavity, and/or skin;
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• a data processor having a detector for a specific disease or medical condition that is capable of processing the individual's skin sensing data and volatile organic compound data to determine if the individual has the specific disease or medical condition.

A rapid, non-invasive, point-of-care system for gathering data related to an individual for testing for the presence of a specific disease or medical condition in the individual comprising:

• an imaging booth capable of performing full body high resolution multispectral skin imaging of an individual;
• a gas chromatograph and ion mobility spectrometer instrument capable of analyzing the individual's breath, oral cavity, and/or skin for volatile organic compounds;
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• a central processing unit with a program application for saving the individual's skin imaging data and volatile organic compound data and sending the individual's skin imaging data and volatile organic compound data to another location for detecting the presence of a specific disease or medical condition in the individual.

A portable remote apparatus for gathering data related to an individual for testing for the presence of a specific disease or medical condition in the individual comprising:

• one or more sensors for measuring wavelengths of light emanating from skin of an individual;
• one or more sensors for measuring volatile organic compounds present ire the individual's breath, oral cavity, and/or skin;
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• a data processor with a program application for saving the individual's skin imaging data and volatile organic compound data and sending the individual's skin imaging data and volatile organic compound data to another location for detecting the presence of a specific disease or medical condition in the individual.

A method for creating a system and apparatus for performing a rapid, non-invasive, point-of-care test for detecting the presence of a specific disease or medical condition in an individual comprising the steps of:

• utilizing bio-sensing technology to measure volatile organic compounds from a breath, an oral cavity, and/or skin of a plurality of individuals with a disease having a known volatile organic compound disease biomarker and a plurality of healthy individuals without the disease;
• utilizing high resolution multispectral imaging to obtain skin images of the plurality of individuals with the disease having a known volatile organic compound disease biomarker and the plurality of healthy individuals without the disease;
• processing the measured volatile organic compound data and the skin imaging data to identify an infrared wave signature for the disease from the skin imaging data that correlates with volatile organic compound data for the diseased individuals;
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• developing a detector for detecting the infrared wave signature.