Interestingly, very few clinical studies have been performed to validate the use of thermal imaging in medical diagnosis for human diseases. The use of thermography to diagnose lung disease was studied in Russia in 1976, 1981, and 1991 in three separate studies, but these studies were neither controlled nor randomized (6-8). In 1970 Potanin demonstrated through a case series that patients with pneumonia had increased overlying chest temperatures and patients with pulmonary embolism had decreased overlying chest temperatures (12). The most recent and impactful study evaluating pneumonia with thermal imaging was a case series performed by Wiecek et al. (2001), which showed that patients with pneumonia demonstrated a reduction in thermographic signal as they positively responded to treatment (13). More modern studies have attempted to validate infrared thermal imaging in measuring the size of brain tumors intra-operatively (9), screening for fever in children (10), and predicting length of recuperation after burn injuries (11), among others. However, there has not been a modern study validating thermal imaging in diagnosing pneumonia.