Identification of skin lesions from the transient thermal response using infrared imaging technique

2008 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Proceedings, ISBI

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1219-1222

  Pirtini Cetingul, M ^a   Herman, C ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared imaging; Skin lesions; Transient thermal response

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; MODEL STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL METHODS; SKIN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOSTATS;

SKIN LESIONS; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; TRANSIENT THERMAL RESPONSE;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

EID: 51049112020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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