A standardized thermographic image diagnosis procedure using computed image processing

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 34-42

  Fujimasa, Iwao ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Institute of Medical Electronics

^d SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; REVIEW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; INNERVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SKIN; VASCULARIZATION;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

BODY TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFRARED RAYS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL; THERMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

FAR INFRARED IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THERMOGRAPHIC IMAGE PROCESSING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031819948     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.687961     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Hardy JD: The radiation of heat from the human body. J. Clin. Invest. 13: 593-604, 605-614, 615-624, 1934.
2. Lawson RN: Thermography - a new tool in the investigation of breast lesions.Canadian Services Med. J. 13:517-524, 1957.
3. Gershon-Cohen and Barnes RB: Thermography and its clinical application. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 121(1):304-324, 1964.
4. Fujimasa I, Sakurai Y and Atsumi K: Some physical and physiological aspects of thermography. Atsumi K (Ed.): Medical Thermography. Univ. of Tokyo Press: Tokyo, pp 31-61, 1973.
5. Fujimasa I, Kajiyama Y, Iwatani M and Atsumi K: Microprocessor processed human thermographic images. MEDINFO-83. IFIP-IMIA, North-Holland: Amsterdam, pp. 393-396, 1983.
6. Fujimasa I: Development and clinical application of the integrated thermal image analysis system (IMTIAS). Medical Thermology. Sheridan Press: Washington, DC., pp. 299-301, 1986.
7. Fujimasa I, Nakajima M, Mabuchi K, Chinzei T, Abe Y, Hyakuna Y and Atsumi K: Development of an on-line real-time computed thermography system (CTS). MEDINFO-86. Elsevier Science Pub: New York, pp. 709-711, 1986.
8. Fujimasa I, Mabuchi K, Motomura K, Chinzei T, Abe Y, Atsumi K: A new computer image processing system for the analysis of neuromus cular thermograms: a feasibility study, Thermology, 1(4):221-225, 1986.
9. Fujimasa I, Ed.: Physiological function imaging: Thermography. Syujyun-sha: Tokyo, pp. 227, 1988.
10. Fujimasa I: Pathophysiological understanding of thermograms. Physiological Function Imaging: Thermography. Syujyun-sha: Tokyo, pp. 36-39, 1988.
11. LeRoy PL, Bruner WM, Christian CR, Filasky R and LeRoy S: Thermography as a diagnostic aid in the management of chronic pain. Evaluation and Treatment of Chronic Pain. Urban & Schwarzenberg: Baltimore, pp. 231-250, 1985.
12. Miki Y and Fujimasa I: Symposium on pathophysiological mechanism of abnormal body surface temperature. Biomedical Thermology, 9(2): 281-313, 1989.
13. Taylor GI and Palmer JH: The vascular territories (angiosomes) of the body: experimental study and clinical applications. British J. of Plastic Surgery. 40(2):113-141, 1987.
14. Iriki M: Physiology for understanding the body surface temperature distribution. Physiological Function Imaging: Thermography. Syujyun-sha: Tokyo, pp. 13-19, 1988.
15. Motomura K, Mabuchi K, Chinzei T, Abe Y, Fujimasa I and Atsumi K: Thermography of neuro-musclo-skeletal systems," Physiological Function Imaging: Thermographs. Syujyun-sha: Tokyo, pp. 103-106, 1988.
16. Ring EFJ: Objective measurement of arthritis by thermography. Acta Thermographica, 5:14-18, 1980.
17. Fujimasa I, Imachi K, Mabuchi K, Chinzei T, Abe Y and Atsumi Y: What kind of physiological functions are possible to convert into graphic patterns from thermal images. Biomedical Thermology, 7(1):56-58, 1987.
18. Motomura K, Mabuchi K, Chinzei T, Abe Y, Fujimasa I and Atumi K: Thermographic evaluation of drug effects. Physiological Function Imaging: Thermography. Syujyun-sha: Tokyo, pp. 199-203, 1988.
19. Fujimasa I and Chinzei T: Dynamic thermographic analysis system at stress testing. Proc. of 12th Intern. Conf of IEEE EMBS, pp. 1582-1583, 1990.
20. Uematsu S: Skin temperature measurement: a clinical perspective. Biomedical Thermology, 11(4):256-268, 1991.