Resolving subjects and measuring observer/subject distances with a thermal tactile imager

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4302-4305

  Do, David H ^a   Riehle, Timothy H ^b   Solinsky, Ryan ^a   Assadi Lamouki, Pouyan ^a   Hillesheim, Christopher T ^a   Vu, An N ^a   Velie, Troy ^a   Seifert, Gregory J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Koronis Biomedical Technologies Corp   (United States)

^c Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ANGULAR POSITIONS; DETECTING OBJECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS; FAR-INFRARED CAMERAS; INFORMATION TRANSFERS; OBSERVATION POINT; SEPARATION DISTANCES; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE;

OBJECT DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STIMULATION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOFTWARE; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 61849148335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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