Segmentation and classification of burn images by color and texture information

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Acha, Begoña ^a   Serrano, Carmen ^a   Acha, José I ^a   Roa, Laura M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Burn; Burn classification; Color images; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BURN; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VALIDATION STUDY; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BURNS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

CALIBRATION; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FUZZY SETS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

BURN; BURN CLASSIFICATION; COLOR IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 24144477579     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1921227     Document Type: Article

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