Design Considerations for a Medical Thermographic Expert System

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1252-1255

  Herry, C ^a   Frize, M ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expert system; Infrared imaging; Thermography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRODUCT DESIGN; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THERMOGRAPHERS;

THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

EID: 1542301792     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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