Overlay of thermal and visual medical images using skin detection and image registration

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 965-967

  Schaefer, Gerald ^a   Tait, Roger ^a   Zhu, Shao Ying ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image registration; Infrared imaging; Skin detection; Thermal imaging; Thermography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

IMAGE CAPTURING; MEDICAL IMAGES; SKIN DETECTION;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFRARED RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; THERMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFRARED RAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THERMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 34047139996     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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