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This line of research presents numerous intrigu-
ing opportunities in healthcare scenarios. This pro-
posal presents an opportunity to optimize pathways
of diagnosis and prognosis and develop personalized
treatment strategies by creating and utilizing larger
datasets. Furthermore, analyzing pictures of earlobes
for non-invasive DELC detection is among the most
important applications. Besides, monitoring ears dur-
ing aging is possible and may provide patient-specific
insight into current health and alert medical staff to
risk situations.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We want to acknowledge Dr. Cecilia Meiler-
Rodr
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ıguez for her creative suggestions and inspiring
ideas. This work is partially funded by the ULPGC
under project ULPGC2018-08, the Spanish Ministry
of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) under
project RTI2018-093337-B-I00, the Spanish Ministry
of Science and Innovation under projects PID2019-
107228RB-I00 and PID2021-122402OB-C22, and
by the ACIISI-Gobierno de Canarias and European
FEDER funds under projects ProID2020010024,
ProID2021010012 and ULPGC Facilities Net and
Grant EIS 2021 04.
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