Early detection of foot ulcers through asymmetry analysis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7262, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kaabouch, Naima ^a   Chen, Yi ^a   Wen Hu, Chen ^a   Anderson, Julie ^b   Ames, Forrest ^a   Paulson, Rolf ^c  

^a University of North Dakota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c Altru Wound Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry analysis; Automatic thresholding; Foot ulcers; Infrared imaging; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY ANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDING; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; EARLY DETECTION; FOOT ULCERS; INFRARED IMAGES; SKIN TEMPERATURES;

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; DERMATOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; PATHOLOGY; SKIN; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 67449084657     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811676     Document Type: Conference Paper

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