New protocol for leg ulcer tissue classification from colour images

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 II, Issue , 2004, Pages 1389-1392

  Zheng, H ^a   Bradley, L ^b   Patterson, D ^a   Galushka, M ^a   Winder, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH EASTERN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical image processing; Leg ulcer; Tissue classification; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMECHANICS; GRANULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MUSCLE; SKIN; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; LEG ULCER; TISSUE CLASSIFICATION; WOUND HEALING;

PATIENT MONITORING;

EID: 11144267816     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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