Texture analysis of foot sole soft tissue images in diabetic neuropathy using wavelet transform

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 756-763

  Puri, M ^a   Patil, K M ^a   Balasubramanian, V ^a   Narayanamurthy, V B ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b Sundaram Medical Foundation   (India)

Author keywords

Diabetic neuropathy; Foot sole hardness; Foot sole soft tissue ultrasonography; Tissue classification; Wavelet based texture analysis

Indexed keywords

DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; FOOT SOLE HARDNESS; FOOT SOLE SOFT TISSUE ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TISSUE CLASSIFICATION; WAVELET-BASED TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HARDENING; HARDNESS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; SKIN; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TEXTURES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

TISSUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIABETIC FOOT; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOOT; HARDNESS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

ADULT; AGED; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FOOT; HARDNESS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

EID: 33750725088     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02430954     Document Type: Article

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