Quantitative assessment of pain-related thermal dysfunction through clinical digital infrared thermal imaging

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Herry, Christophe L ^a   Frize, Monique ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PAIN PATHOLOGIES; REGION OF INTERESTS (ROI); THERMAL DYSFUNCTIONS; THERMOGRAMS;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; HEAT LOSSES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOME; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NOCICEPTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOREGULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; PAIN;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFRARED RAYS; MALE; PAIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 13144295896     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-3-19     Document Type: Article

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